Supporting associations

Founded in 1969 and based in Chicago, Illinois, USA, the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) is an internationally recognized organization dedicated solely to the concerns of independent, professional lighting designers. The IALD strives to set the global standard for lighting design excellence by promoting the advancement and recognition of professional lighting designers. Value Lighting designers are a tremendous resource of innovative, practical and economically viable lighting solutions. They understand the role of lighting in architectural and interior design and utilize their extensive experience and knowledge of lighting equipment and systems to enhance and strengthen design.

www.iald.org

By 2007, the OLED Industry had begun to ship products that were used in mobile phones, MP3s, automobiles, and headsets, yet the companies making the material, equipment, displays and lighting were virtually invisible. The newly emerging industry is relatively small – with ~US$500M in global revenues – but a handful of visionary leaders came together to create a forum to spotlight the OLED industry participants. The result is the OLED Association (OLED-A).

www.oled-a.org

The Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES) is the recognized technical authority on illumination. For over 100 years; its objective has been to communicate information on all aspects of good lighting practice to its members, to the lighting community, and to consumers, through a variety of programs, publications, and services.

IES is a forum for the exchange of ideas and information, and a vehicle for its members' professional development and recognition. Through technical committees, with hundreds of qualified individuals from the lighting and user communities, IES correlates research, investigations, and discussions to guide lighting professionals and lay persons via consensus-based lighting recommendations.

The Society publishes nearly 100 varied technical publications, and works cooperatively with related organizations on a variety of programs and in the production of jointly published documents and standards.

www.ies.org

The Professional Lighting Designers’ Association, PLDA is a voluntary federation of lighting designers and lighting consultants who are active on an international scale, their purpose being to increase the reputation of the profession and to establish the profession as such in its own right, and to promote good lighting design in the interest of the client, the architectural space and, above all, the users.  PLDA offers a comprehensive network of top specialists in the field with over 600 members from 50 different countries, comprised of students, professionals and educators.  Supporting and encouraging Lighting Design education is a core value of the PLDA and we are deeply involved with planning and organizing effective education and training programs, ranging from degree-granting programs to seminars.

www.pld-a.org

OLED-DISPLAY.net

ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING (A|L) is North America’s leading magazine for lighting specifiers and the lighting community. A|L reaches more than 30,000 industry professionals including architects, lighting designers, interior designers, engineers, and landscape architects.