Lighting

1. Natural Lighting: is a technique that efficiently brings natural light into your home using exterior glazing (windows, skylights, etc.), thereby reducing artificial lighting requirements and saving energy.

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2. Task Lighting: is lightning that is meant to serve a particular task that requires more visibility and less eye-retain

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3. Accent Lighting: focuses light on a particular area or object. It is often used to highlight art or other artifacts.

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4. Ambient Lighting: is essentially indirect lighting. A soft light that is reflected off the ceiling.

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5. Grazing: is a lighting technique where lights are positioned closely to a wall, either from the floor or ceiling, to force the beam of light to hit the wall at a narrow angle.

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6. Perimeter Lighting: a lighting design technique that focuses on illuminating the outer edges or boundaries of a space

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7. Up Lighting: Is the lighting effect created by strategically placing lighting fixtures on the floor and pointing them up

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8. Cove Lighting: is a form of indirect lighting built into ledges, recesses, or valances in a ceiling

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9. Recessed Lighting: Is lighting installed into a hollow opening in a ceiling

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10. Drop Lighting: are fixtures that drop from the ceiling and come down into the space

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11. Wall Washing lighting positioned at least 12 inches from the wall. This way, the light can fall on the wall in an equal, uniform way.

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12. Sconce: is a decorative light fixture that is mounted to a wall.

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13. 2x2 fixture or 2x4 fixture These are flat panel light fixtures you see in schools or offices

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14. Incandescent Bulb: is an electric light with a wire filament that is heated until it glows.

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15. Fluorescent Bulb: an electric lamp in the form of a tube in which light is produced on the inside fluorescent coating by the action of ultraviolet light.

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16. Creative Lighting 1 (extra credit): This is a light installation set in Melogranoblu Dubai for Milan's design week. Melogranoblu is known for its approach to giving atmosphere to space. It works basically with creativity and breaking the borders taking your mind into the world of fantasy, getting free from the world of dull functionality.

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17. Creative Lighting 2(extra credit): This is a glass lamp designed by a Japanese artist, Kumbhglass is made by using a technique called glass lampwork. Glass lampworking is a type of glasswork that involves using a torch or lamp to melt and shape glass. Once the glass is heated to a molten state, it can be formed by blowing and shaping with tools and hand movements. This technique is also known as flameworking or torchworking.

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