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What types of companies benefit from digital media design?

The simple answer is all kinds.

Very soon, almost every industry in today’s commercial marketplace will become aware of the power of digital media design. Digital media design represents the next step in video evolution—and possibly an entirely new direction for media in general. Digital media design unites computer memory with high resolution and high definition video, completing the first successful step toward the blending of computer technology and television that many have predicted will unite all media into one in the near future. In addition to its sophisticated and sheik aesthetic, digital media design offers tremendous commercial potential that represents value with imagery and combines presentation with highly visible, advanced technology.
Digital media design converts electronics to image and image to impression, thus making an emotional statement without argument or pretense. It’s as if the clear facts at hand speak louder than any words of persuasion your best sales person can muster!

Illuminations Lighting and Design’s home automation department has now begun to extend its service offerings into the commercial arena due to the growing demand for digital media design as a highly effective tool of advertising and showcasing both products and services. As an authorized distributor of home theater audio and video equipment of the highest commercial grade, and as Houston’s leading design firm multi-specializing in five aesthetic and technical disciplines, ILD offers this service to eclectic consumers, service industries, and high-end vertical markets. Digital media design is not only increasing sales, but also sells more with less effort in a number of industries. Here are a few examples that illustrate the emerging trends in digital media designs.

Art Galleries
Many curators and art collectors have found that adding a projection screen to showcase impeccable images of rare works of art can be used in a number of promotional capacities. Pending grand openings of emerging artists can be silently—but prominently— showcased in an “upcoming events” presentation.

Museums
Archeology and historical specialists have discovered that bringing the past to new life through digital media design reintroduces our busy modern world to its myth poetic roots in an exciting, mesmerizing, and innovative fashion.

Hotels
High-end resorts are replacing print media with projectors and screens. This allows them to showcase in their hotel lobbies all the many amenities and special events located on their property. Guests walk into the lobby and see the entire grounds on the screen, making them want to see more in person.

Travel and Vacation Resorts
Timeshares sales have increased as well, and reputable timeshare companies have finally differentiated themselves from less well-thought-of competitors by offering slide shows to prospective buyers that clearly show them what they are being offered.

Many more industries are discovering the amazing potential of digital media design. Click here to read our full-length article on the subject and learn what ILD can do to help you advertise your value like never before…

Labels: Digital Media Design, High-End Lighting, Lighting and Home Automation, Media Design Company

The importance of choosing the right lighting for your fine art cannot be emphasized enough!

Fine Art Lighting brings out the hidden value that lies dormant in so many older works of art, and it adds value to rare, expensive, and original pieces that deserve a spotlight of their own. The importance of choosing the right lighting for your fine art cannot be emphasized enough, and making the wrong choices could diminish the appearance of your most prized paintings or even worse inadvertently damage certain oils and canvases. For this reason, Illuminations Lighting and Design heads up a team of specialists whose training and experience guide commercial and individual clients into making the best investments possible in fine art lighting and design. Houston art galleries and Texas homeowners alike come to us when they need someone they can rely on to engineer the creative as well as the technical aspects of their new lighting layout.

When you call Illuminations Lighting and Design for fine art lights and design services, we immediately begin with a personal, in-house consultation focused on getting a feel for your aesthetic taste and determining key technical details such as fixture size, lamp wattage, and fine art lighting placement relative to your art design theme. We also take careful note of the genres, nature, and sizes of your individual works of art so we can develop an overall theme that highlights individual specifics within a unified field of illumination. If you decorate shelves, bookcases, and tables with sculpture, we can customize our patented framing projectors to light these objects along with your fine art. Our proprietary techniques enable us to illuminate paintings, sculptures, and other items without glare or spill light. Over the years, our experience serving collectors of Chagall, Picasso, Matisse, Renoir, Rockwell, Dali, and Rembrandt has honed our skills in lighting fine art to pinpoint technical accuracy and made us adept in an aesthetic realm that most technical companies fear to approach.

What we learn in our first consultation helps us to then form a detailed technical plan to make your fine art lighting dreams a reality. One of the many benefits you can count on when you choose ILD is the many distributor relationships we hold with the world’s top fine art light manufacturers. These relationships give you the added value of having your consulting team also serve as your vendor, thus eliminating the need for multiple sources and complicated purchasing procedures. Our knowledge of fine art lighting fixtures has developed through years of hands-on experience working with everything from low voltage accent lights for fine art to complex Wendel optical light projectors. Most importantly, as your vendor we will be qualified to install new components for you any time you add work to your collection that requires a lighting upgrade.

Give us a call today to get started on bringing the best look to your investments with fine art lighting materials and creative strategies. Watch your home add sophistication to comfort by choosing Texas’s best experts as your one-shop solution for new ideas and new realities in light. Give us a call at 800-863-1184.

Labels: Custom Art Lights, Fine art lighting, High-End Lighting, Interior Accent Lighting, Optical Wendel Projectors

High-End Commercial Landscape Lighting Designs

Resorts, country clubs, casinos, and five star hotels all come to Illuminations Lighting and Design for high end lighting services that illuminate exclusive entertainment by unifying natural features and architectural keynotes. High-end lighting clients invest tremendous revenue in the very best construction and custom landscaping in the world. After sunset, these features require exact levels of light and special lighting effects to distinguish their superior value throughout all hours of the night. By approaching high end lighting as a systematic application of four strategic layers of custom lighting design, ILD consultants develop a custom overlay of light that creates special effects in water features, makes trees and ornamental vegetation clearly visible, and brings out the richness and uniqueness of exclusive building design that distinguishes superb facilities from their competitors. High-end lighting emphasizes luxury and comfort by highlighting the many points of differentiation that make each exclusive facility a unique experience of lifestyle and refined entertainment.

Architectural lighting forms a vital layer of illumination in any high end lighting project. To work successfully, it requires an expert knowledge of light itself and a thorough understanding of building design. Architectural lights must illuminate the edifice and structural features of clubhouses, event facilities, restaurants, and hotels without distracting the eye with obtrusive lighting fixtures and wiring. They must also highlight individual design features without destroying the aesthetic unity of the structure as a whole. To accommodate this paradoxical demand, ILD's high-end lighting team cross-trains and partners with a number of architectural firms to learn the planning and construction methods employed in clubhouse and hotel building design. Armed with a scientific knowledge of light itself combined with industry knowledge of advanced architecture, we can source illumination from key angles that maximize beam spread and cast greater amounts of light over the building using only a minimum number of physical lighting fixtures. Our high end lighting clients have greatly praised our ability to make their clubhouse or hotel appear prominent above the landscape without overpowering the surrounding amenities, decor, and natural beauty of the grounds.

In addition to architectural lighting, our high-end lighting team deploys three additional layers of lighting to compliment structure and specific landscaping features surrounding the facility. Moon/shadow lighting provides both general and specialty lighting for landscaping features and improves security by dispersing illumination property-wide. The term "moon shadow" refers to effects created by mercury vapor down lights carefully hidden in trees. Soft, moon like light rains down from an invisible source above and forms complex patterns of light and shadow on earth and water features. Streams, private lakes, artificial geysers, water walls and waterfalls all light up with an iridescent sense of movement as the water dances between light and darkness. Our high end lighting specialist's then compliment these special effects with a third layer of lighting known as accent lighting that emphasizes sculptures, statues, water features, waterfalls, garden art, and outdoor dining tables.

High-end lighting specialists complete the project further with a fourth design layer known as tree canopy lighting. For resorts and country clubs surrounded by large, stately oaks and Roman-style poplars, tree canopy lighting affords members and guests a view of the greenery at any time of night. Our high end lighting specialists draw from an extensive product base to install specialty up lights along the base of the tree line that illuminate trunks, wood color, branches, and leaves. For newer facilities with minimal foliage we will create the same effect by placing bollards along the perimeter of the grounds. Bollards stand between three and four feet tall and dual function as ornamental decoration during daylight hours. When requested by the client, we will unify the paved areas with the entirety of the grounds by installing ornamental parking lot lights that compliment both tree canopy lighting and bollard lighting with ornate pole design and high-levels of luminosity that contribute to security and safety.

Illuminations Lighting and Design is proud to have completed high-end lighting projects for clients such as the River Oaks Country Club in Houston, Texas Carlton Woods Country Club in The Woodlands, Texas, and the Sheridan Hotel in Austin, Texas. Our team travels nationwide to deliver the same level of award-winning quality to any resort, hotel, casino, or country club looking to showcase their maximum value and unique points of distinction after sunset. Call today for an in-depth, complimentary consultation and begin a journey into a whole new world of light.

Labels: Commercial Lighting Designers, High-End Lighting, Hotel Landscape Lighting

Do you have any pictures of landscape lighting projects in your portfolio?

We have a Landscape Client Gallery on our web site that contains many digital images of our Landscape Lighting work.

Our staff of Landscape Lighting designers and licensed installers are both uniquely qualified in all forms of landscape lighting techniques. Whether you are looking for a simple low voltage lighting system, or a more comprehensive moonlighting installation, the professionals at Illuminations Lighting Design can turn your home and landscaping into a nighttime masterpiece.

For more information regarding a landscape lighting design services, repairs or installation please contact Rick Luberger by email or by phone at 832-607-5200.

Labels: Commercial Landscape Lighting, High-End Lighting, Independant Residential Electrical Contractor, low voltage lighting systems, Outdoor Architectural Lighting