Lumen Awards 2019 Call for Submissions
Lumen Awards 2019 Call for Submissions now is over!
The New York City Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society is now accepting submissions for its 51st annual Lumen Awards, a signature program of the IESNYC that celebrates excellence in lighting design and honors outstanding projects, lighting designers, their design teams, and project owners.
About Competition
The 51st annual Lumen Awards orgaised by New York City Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society now is accepting submissions in its 51st edition, a signature program of the IESNYC, celebrates excellence in lighting design and honors outstanding projects, lighting designers, their design teams, and project owners.
The IESNYC Lumen Awards program was conceived and managed by the New York City Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society in 1968. It was developed to publicly recognize lighting design members whose exceptional professionalism, ingenuity and originality in lighting design has culminated in some of the world’s most innovative lighting projects.
New York City-based designers can submit projects located anywhere in the world and designers based outside of New York City are invited to submit work located in New York City.
The Lumen Awards is open to any interior or exterior architectural lighting design project completed within two years’ time of the submission deadline. Projects may be re-submitted during the years a project is eligible.
Submission Requirements:
Each project entry must include:
1. Project Information: Provide “Lighting Designer’s” contact information credited for the design of the lighting, and the projects general information (such as name, location, type, and completion date).
2. Project Summary: 100-word limit. This summary will be read to the judges and your images will be shown during the first round of judging. Your summary should introduce your project to the Judges and inspire them to accelerate your project to the second round.
3. Image Narratives: 300-word limit. The image narratives will be read to the judges during the second round of judging should your project move to a second round. The image narratives should be cued to each image (such as, Image1, Image2, Image3, etc.), and should describe or support the visual content of each image. Download Sample
4. Digital Images: Up to 10 high-resolution JPEG images (at least 1024px and 768px at 300dpi). Each digital file will be counted as a single image. Digital files with multiple pictures or views or illustrations will be counted as multiple images towards a maximum of 10 images. (Example: one file with two side-by-side views will be counted as 2 images, one file with a picture, a detail, and a section will counted as 3 images, etc.)
5. Video Submission (optional): You may submit an optional digital video file.
• Acceptable files: MOV, M4V or MP4 format
• No Audio allowed
• Digital videos should only be used to demonstrate kinetic, transitional, or animated lighting effects key to the lighting design concept.
• Still images as a slide show are not accepted as a video and will be disqualified.
• Videos must be a maximum of 1 minute in length. Those that are over one minute will be terminated after one minute of play.
Winners will be announced at the Lumen Awards Gala on June 13, 2019.
Entry fee is $140 per project submission.
Eligibility
The Lumen Awards is open to any interior or exterior architectural lighting design project completed within two years’ time of the submission deadline. Projects may be re-submitted during the years a project is eligible.>br>>br> Anyone can enter a project for consideration, but wherever possible, organizer require the lighting designer responsible for the lighting scheme be credited.>br>>br> Eligible projects must be designed by a NYC* based designer(s) for a project located anywhere in the world or the project must be located in NYC* regardless of the location of the designer(s).