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Hosted by Avraham Mor & Lisa Reed · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 39 episodes
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Welcome to the podcast about Lighting Matters! Our unflinching conversations uncover the nuances and complexities that shape the craft of lighting design. Tune in to explore the pivotal ‘whys’ behind a lighting designer’s choices and find honest answers to your most challenging lighting questions, because Lighting Matters®.
Avraham Mor & Lisa Reed hosts Lighting Matters®, a arts show with 39 episodes published.
Avi Mor of Morlights and Lisa Reed of Reed Burkett Lighting Design pull up chairs on the Illuminate@NeoCon floor for four back-to-back manufacturer check-ins. Sage Russell, VP of Specification Sales at LumenWerx, explain
8% of award-winning projects had a lighting designer. Only 2% got credit. Why is this profession still invisible? Recorded live at Illuminate@NeoCon 2026 in Chicago, this episode features Rebecca Keehner, Senior Interior
Of 100 award-winning architecture projects, how many listed a lighting designer in the credits? The answer should embarrass the entire industry. Jen Park, principal at Chicago's Park Fowler, joins hosts Avi Mor of Morlig
Why does the profession that shapes how humans experience every built space they occupy still have no regulatory recognition — anywhere in the world? Dawn Brown, CLD, Design IALD, Lighting Designer at Ontario Aesthetic L
Lighting's go-to-market model is one of the most complex in any product category. Does anyone outside the industry actually understand that—and does it matter if they don't? Amy Bonder came to Luminii from the Fortune 50
What if the fastest way to bring a project in under budget was just to pay people on time? Ron Unterreiner—retired design-build executive, founder of the People networking initiative and WBEDC, and advisor to the Rise CD
Structural engineers are licensed. Architects are licensed. Why isn't lighting? Hosts Avi Mor of Morlights and Lisa Reed of Reed Burkett Lighting Design go unscripted. It starts with a hotel ballroom running 20 footcandl
Ten experienced lighting designers walk into a conference. Can they agree on what they actually do for a living? "What do you do?" For lighting designers, it's a deceptively hard question to answer well. At the IALD Enli
How does lighting affect how we tell stories? Avraham Mor of Morlights and Lisa Reed of Reed Burkett Lighting Design interview David Woody of the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry? They look at how storytelling is a
Can you quantify why lighting matters—or does defining it ruin everything? Avi Mor of Mor Lighting and Lisa Reed of Reed Burkett Lighting Design record live from ArchLight Summit 2025, exploring a fundamental question: d
What's the connection between lighting control systems, circadian rhythm, and designing for neurodivergent building occupants? David Euscher, national board chair for the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) and
What if value engineering meant distilling to essentials instead of cutting corners? Joel Fuoss, Principal at Trivers in St. Louis, joins hosts Lisa Reed of Reed Burkett Lighting Design and Avi Mor of Mor Lights to discu
Why does museum lighting deliver 10x ROI compared to other exhibit elements? AJ Goehle, CEO of Luci, and Kevin Snow, lighting and set designer, discuss the critical role of theatrical lighting in museum exhibit design. T
Hosts Avi Mor and Lisa Reed take the Lighting Matters podcast on location to the IES conference in Anaheim, conducting rapid-fire interviews with five leading lighting professionals. The episode explores how lighting des
Why are expensive light fixtures often the wrong choice for better spaces? Margaret Cavenagh, Managing Director at Perkins & Will Chicago, discusses her evolution from residential lighting basics to managing complex arch
"If someone would say we have $1 million for finishes but no lighting designer, or $600,000 with a lighting designer - I choose that second one every day of the week." - Karen Herold Interior designer Karen Herold of Stu
"No amount of photometric studies is gonna tell you how it's actually gonna perform until you actually see it at 10 o'clock at night." - Rob Reuland Avi Mor of Mor Lights and Lisa Reed of Reed Burket Lighting Design refl
"No amount of photometric studies is gonna tell you how it's actually gonna perform until you actually see it at 10 o'clock at night." - Rob Reuland What happens when someone starts taking out trash at 17 and becomes a p
"A 50,000-hour fixture, if it's on 24/7, like in many municipal buildings or hospitals…it won't even last six years." - Anne Kustner-Haser Anne Kustner Haser, President of AKLD Lighting Design joins hosts Lisa Reed and A
Why are architects who collaborate with lighting designers winning more ambitious clients? Architect Michael Byrd of Core10 Architecture in St. Louis shares his journey from skeptic to advocate for professional lighting
Dawn Brown
Lighting Designer · Ontario Aesthetic Lighting Design
1 appearance on this show
Michael Byrd
missionary mobilizer · Faith Community Bible Church
1 appearance on this show
Rebecca Keehner
Stantec Architecture
1 appearance on this show
Jen Park
Park Fowler
1 appearance on this show
Amy Bonder
Luminii
1 appearance on this show
Lisa Reed
Reed Burkett Lighting Design
3 appearances on this show
Avi Mor
Morlights
3 appearances on this show
Randy Burkett
RBLD
1 appearance on this show
Ron Kurtz
Dark Light Design
1 appearance on this show
Aram Ebben
EXP
1 appearance on this show
Chip Israel
Lighting Design Alliance
1 appearance on this show
Francesca Bastianini
Sighte Studio
1 appearance on this show
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