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ERCO Eclipse - March 23rd

I rarely get excited about product launches. While I’m always happy to see a factory iterate on an existing product or create something new, a factory rarely launches a product that truly wows me.

ERCO has done that with Eclipse.

I’ll be sending more information in the coming weeks, including links to register for a zoom and a specific time, but in the meantime, please save the date. This is a product demo you will not want to miss.

The Slow Return to Normal-ish

While we might not be ready to get back to work as normal. We can return normal-ish. With LEDucation going virtual, and no other trade events happening in the area through the end of the year, it's time to think about how we can keep your designs fresh with new products and options. Whether that means booking a hybrid presentation, home delivery of a sample, or a zoom call, I'm here to keep you going.

For those who remain: OPEN a night walk by The Flint Collective

“OPEN” is a series of temporary light art installations occupying a selection of storefronts in the East Village. Visitors are invited to discover the neighborhood anew via a mapped out night walk. The walk links both empty and occupied storefronts transformed through a mix of light projections and radiant effusions of color. Sponsored by the Designers Lighting Forum of New York (DLFNY), the Flint Collective NYC partnered with lighting manufacturers and local business owners to respond to a city transformed by the global pandemic. In the rhythm of closed storefronts OPEN offers an optimistic pause of light and color.

Updating Delivered Lumens

If there's been a theme to 2020, it's been - adaptation. It's become a trope to harp on the uncertainty ahead I won't indulge that impulse. Instead, let's talk about what was already happening and what COVID-19 is accelerating. I started Delivered Lumens about 18 months ago because it was already challenging to find time in the schedule to make in-person presentations. Billable hours are valuable; there are more products and frankly, more reps than ever in the NY market vying for your time. Delivered Lumens was set up as a way to keep having the lighting conversation on your schedule.

Remembering What I Do

Right now, it feels like life right now is lived from zoom call to zoom call. So when one of my designers emailed with a question about how to get light across a 20-foot ceiling, it was a breath of fresh air... Oh yeah! Helping designers! Helping make cool light! That's what I normally do! So I sat at my iPad and make the above sketch and it was rudimentary, and fun and it brought me back to what I really love to do.