Chip Israel, Lighting Design Alliance a Salas Obrien Company
Location: Sutton South
Wednesday, April 14, 2027
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm ET
Credits TBA
Intermediate
After 40 years of design experience, Chip has been mentored by the icons of our industry. He will share lessons and design tricks he learned from listening to the likes of Howard Brandston, Leslie Wheel, Ray Grenald and many others. The design concepts have withstood the test of time. This presentation uses visual images to illustrate the learning points. This will be the first time he has presented this on the East Coast, but has successfully shared this topic multiple times before.
Come with the thirst to learn more designing with lighting.
Learning Objectives
- Attendees will be exposed to the wisdom of award-winning designers and hear their concise messages.
- Through the use of case studies and visual examples, the audience will be able to see all illustrated points.
- Attendees will develop their own light strategies by melding options presented in the presentation.
- Bullet point references from the original educators in lighting will be shared to solidify the foundation of these lighting concepts.
Speaker

Chip Israel is an Icon in the lighting community and has been awarded the honor of Fellow, by both the IES and the IALD. He has three Lifetime Achievement awards and was recently awarded the Lewis B. Marks award. He has lectured at all of the lighting shows for decades and even presented at the very first Leducation. His design firm, Lighting Design Alliance has won over 300 National and International lighting design awards.
