When it comes to food and drinking establishments, proper lighting is paramount. Lights from both natural and artificial lighting, when properly planned can create an inviting atmosphere. Strategic illumination can set the mood of interior space. This further boosts the occupants’ sensory experiences and provides the desired ambiance.
Aside from creating an atmosphere, lighting is critical when to efficiency, productivity, and safety of the staff and employees.
Your lighting can never be an afterthought. Without proper lighting, it can break the overall look of your restaurant or bar, however beautiful or stunning your other design elements may be.
We’ve listed here the 4 Important Lighting Types for your Bar or Restaurant.
Importance: Safe circulation of space, foundational layer of lighting
Ambient lights are placed to provide general lighting to your establishment, helping your customers and employees to maneuver easily and safely through space. These lights serve as the base lighting when it comes to layering of your lighting. For ambient illumination, these are usually overhead luminaires, recessed lights, chandeliers, track lighting, or pendant lights.
Importance: Highlight important areas or features, creates overall contrast
Creating visual interest and makes a lively and dynamic atmosphere. You can highlight décor elements such as paintings, feature walls, or any other artwork. This lighting level is also perfect in accenting points in your operation, such as menu boards, advertisements, or open kitchen areas. Emergency lights should also be highlighted using focal luminaires like troffers or recessed lights.
For a dramatic effect, your focal lighting should be 3x brighter than your ambient lights. Sconces or pendant lights, adjustable track lights, torchiere lights, and cove lights are a few focal lights that can be incorporated.
Importance: Safety of kitchen staff, ensures the efficiency of employees
If you have excellent task lighting, you’ll expect employees to complete the task accurately. Task lights are generally placed in the kitchen, reception, or counters. Kitchen areas should be well lit, as safety is a priority. With proper lighting, kitchen staff should able to see clearly all the kitchen utensils and ingredients being used.
Task lights include both fixed and adjustable luminaires. Adjustable task lights include gooseneck, balanced-arm lamp, and track lights. Fixed task lights on-the-other-hand include pendant lights and downlights.
Importance: Natural anti-bacterial properties, creates a lively mood, saves on energy costs.
Regardless of what restaurant or bar business you have, natural light from the sun is beneficial, and it should go hand-in-hand with your artificial lighting. Natural illumination should be maximized, but glare and heat retention should be avoided. Surface materials can also affect your overall lighting, so be sure to include all design considerations when planning.
To control natural lighting, blinds and draperies can be installed as well as smart windows that can self-tint during the day when the sun is at its highest.
Just like in a theater stage, layers of light create, enhances, and highlight key elements. Regardless of what type of restaurant, lighting is critical. It’s not enough in having beautiful luminaires, all your lights should work harmoniously, and it helps to have controllable features on your lighting system. This makes it easier to adjust the degree of brightness and color.
Around 50% of the energy consumption of bars and restaurants comes from lighting alone. You can choose LED or sensory lights to cut off costs. Along with a properly planned lighting system, you can ensure that your costumers and staff are getting the optimum benefits of natural and artificial illumination.
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Inaugural SIT Furniture Design Awards 2020 submissions are now open. While making the announcement, the awards spokesperson said that registrations for the first edition of the awards for best in furniture design is now open.
Created to recognize the efforts of talented international furniture product designers, manufacturers, and brand implementers; SIT aims at celebrating creativity and sharing furniture designers’ innovative SEATING visions to the world.
“SIT focuses on rewarding strategic thinking and imagination that goes into making great equipment,” said the spokesperson, adding that industrial designers help in improving our daily life; therefore, their efforts need be recognized.
While acknowledging that furniture will be a strategic tool in managing the current global health crisis, the founder of SIT Furniture Design Awards and CEO of its parent company, Farmani Group; Mr. Hossein Farmani explained how important it is to acknowledge the efforts and contributions of furniture designers and implementers. Hossein Farmani also observed that with the pandemic, there has been a major shift in how we use furniture, defining private versus working areas, and how we had to reorganize our lives from home while changing our habits to keep the infections at bay, “…all these will have an impact on furniture and interior design, ”said Mr. Farmani.
With the awards, Mr. Farmani added that they recognize the contribution of furniture designers, rewarding them for their talent and creativity, which also awards present exciting opportunities for both new talent and established creatives and architects.
Digital Innovation Center
SIT Furniture Design Awards have created the Digital Innovation Center, a concept with a unique blend of design, creative thinking, computational thinking, culture integration, and sustainability innovation.
The center is focusing on 3 topics to highlight new inventions every year, looking at today’s challenges and how to overcome them. The annual winner of the Digital Innovation Center in professional categories will receive a cash prize of US$4000 to realize a prototype or start production.
For its inaugural launch, the Digital Innovation Center will focus on these topics:
Panel of Judges
Entries to the competition will be anonymously judged by an influential jury panel of experienced academics and established design industry professionals whose mandate is to recognize and award the absolute best designers. Each jury member will bring a wealth of knowledge and understanding to the table and with their combined insight and votes, the final winners in each category will be selected.
Winners will receive the SIT trophy, a digital brochure featuring their winning entry, an invitation to the bi-annual winner reception as well as extensive publicity, promoting their designs to a worldwide audience.
Eligibility
Entries can be submitted as conceptual designs, in progress, or as completed projects as long as they are no more than five years old. The submissions can be made as a professional or as a student, and the competition is open to anyone aged 18+, residing in any part of the world.
Professional entries will be judged against other professionals with student entries against other students. There is an early bird discount of 20% for applications made before the 14th of September 2020. The deadline for participation is set for December 5th, 2020, and another 10-day extension will be given for late submissions. Winners will be announced in February 2021.
About Farmani Group
Farmani Group is a company leading in curation and promotion of photography, design, and architecture across the globe. Established in 1985, the company aims at discovering and promoting talents in its areas of operation through competitions, awards, exhibitions, developing artist communities, providing networking opportunities, and education.
The Farmani Group, has organized several successful award events around the globe, including the International Design Awards (IDA), Architecture Masterprize, DNA, Paris Design Awards, London International Creative Awards, Prix de la Photographie in Paris, and the Annual Lucie Awards for Photography, which has emerged as one of the world’s most prestigious awards. And now the SIT Furniture Design Awards.
Farmani Group assembled SIT Furniture Design Award to bring more attention to the international furniture industry’s great contribution to our daily life.
SIT Furniture Design Award is the sibling Award of LIT Lighting Design Award (LIT), International Design Awards (IDA), and European Product Design Awards ( ePDA) all focusing on Product Aesthetic, Concepts & Enhancement.
The Farmani Group, established in 1985, is responsible for many successful awards around the globe. Farmani Group organizes the International Design Awards (IDA), Architecture Masterprize (AMP) DNA, Paris Design Awards, London International Creative Awards (LICC), Prix de la Photographie in Paris (PX3), and the Annual Lucie Awards for Photography, which has emerged as one of the world’s most prestigious awards. Learn more about Farmani Group here.
SIT Furniture Design Award™ exists to recognize, celebrate, and promote brilliant international Furniture Designers, Brands, Manufacturers, Emerging talents as well as Visionaries enhancing our daily life with innovation. SIT focuses on “Seat and Beyond”, rewarding strategic thinking and imagination which goes into making great equipment.
The prize is open to submissions on a global level, accepting entries from Designers and Emerging Talent from all around the world.
SIT Furniture Design Award has created a digital “Innovation Center” focusing every year on 3 topics to highlight invention, look at today’s challenges, and how to overcome them. The winner of the “Innovation Center” will receive a cash prize to realize a prototype or start the production.
Winners are selected by our esteemed jury of creative minds and leaders in the Industrial Designers world. They will receive the SIT trophy, a Digital brochure feathering their entry, be invited to the Bi-Annual winner reception as well as extensive publicity exposing their designs to a worldwide audience…
Designers, Manufacturers and Brands can submit an unlimited number of furniture concepts pertaining to various categories, from seat to tables, from lighting to office desks. While the “Design with furniture” section included living room design to bedroom design, from commercial design to landscape design.
The deadline for participation is set for December 5th, 2020, and another 10 days extension will be given for late submission.
Winners will be announced in February 2021!
SIT digital ” Innovation Center” – Start making a difference now!
SIT Furniture Design Award has created a “Digital Innovation Center”, to be a unique blend of design and creativity thinking, Computational thinking, culture integrator, and sustainability’s maker.
The center is focusing every year on 3 topics to highlight inventions, look at today’s challenges, and how to overcome them. The yearly winner of the “Digital Innovation Center” professional or student will receive a grant of US$4000 to realize a prototype or start the production.
For its inaugural launch, the digital innovation center will focus on:
SIT Furniture Design Award Jury panel will look deeply at the process to create the successful product/furniture that resonates with today’s users. It must be technologically feasible and successfully applicable to solve all kinds of innovation challenges and problems.