This week’s newsletter highlights innovative lighting solutions and expert insights across exterior, decorative, and industrial applications. Beacon Products has expanded its Viper luminaire line with new Silicone Strike Optics, offering enhanced durability, optical precision, energy efficiency, and improved light control for demanding outdoor environments such as campuses, retail centers, and distribution facilities. The feature also spotlights Lee Broom’s striking Vesper Collection, a sculptural suspension lighting series that blends modern architectural design with refined finishes, making it ideal for hospitality, residential, and cultural spaces. Finally, Arizona Lighting Sales team member Sean shares key considerations for warehouse lighting design, emphasizing the importance of fixture selection, lighting uniformity, emergency lighting systems, and egress path planning to improve safety, efficiency, and long-term operational value.

This month we’re featuring Lucifer Lighting’s Stellaris, developed with Gensler to solve a classic specification problem: task and ambient lighting in a single 31″ fixture. Three independently controlled sources — downlight, waveguide, and uplight — let designers layer light without adding fixtures to the ceiling. We’re also spotlighting TLS Lighting’s LumiCoustica™ Collection, which pairs high-performance LED lighting with built-in acoustic absorption — tackling sound reverberation in open, hard-surfaced commercial spaces without cluttering the ceiling plane. And a big congrats to our Q2 Golf Simulator League winners — Dustin Brown & Harrison Muecke took 1st place overall!

This month, we’re spotlighting how integrated Lutron systems helped designer Grace Huh transform a historic home’s most challenging space — a dark, 40-foot kitchen — into its warm, welcoming heart. Tunable Ketra fixtures shift from crisp morning light to candlelit evening glow, while motorized shades protect artwork and reveal lake views on cue. It’s a great example of technology built to enhance a designer’s vision, not compete with it. We’re also featuring Accord Lighting’s redesigned Petra Pendant — a one-of-a-kind fixture pairing natural wood and stone, with exposed sockets reimagined as a design feature.