Why Do You Need a Lighting Designer?

A good lighting designer will listen to the project owner's need, and realize the demands through various professional lighting techniques and methods. What’s more, the lighting designer will present the detailed lighting plan in professional drawings, which will be well understood by electricians and installing workers, to ensure the plan is realized exactly as the owner’s requirements.

One might wonder, why do I need a lighting designer when I have already hired an interior designer? Can't the luminaires provider handle the lighting design?

To become an excellent interior designer, they need to learn too much professional knowledge and accumulate years of practical experience. Lighting is often the most neglected field, but lighting also requires much professional knowledge and skills. Only a few interior designers are qualified enough in lighting, so it is impractical to ask interior designers to chase after lighting trends. On the other hand, the light providers are familiar enough with the characteristics and usage methods of the most advanced lights. However, they get difficulties in combining lighting and interior design well. They do not have the skills to put the lighting plan on professional drawings, which leads to many subsequent problems. In the end, the project could only be handed in a half-baked, flawed state.

How would a lighting designer work on the project?

Before starting design work, lighting designers will talk with users about their requirements and ideas on lighting, or simply what lighting environment they need, or what kind of feel they need the lighting brings. The users might have many ideas but don’t know how to put them out, needless to say, how to plan the exact lighting or judge whether a lighting plan is good. Lighting designers will give them appropriate advice according to requirements.

A good lighting designer will arrange the lighting reasonably, except for the points users mentioned, such as using the right color temperature and beam angle. The lighting scheme given by the lighting designer will be more systematic and reasonable. Lighting designers create different lighting environments according to decoration styles or functional spaces, putting the right light where it needs to be and illuminating the area.

When you realize how important lighting is for a project, hire a lighting designer!