TM-30 for Designers: A Phase by Phase Approach

Jason Livingston, Studio T+L, LLC

Location: Sutton South

Wednesday
April 15, 2026
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm ET

Credits 1 LU | HSW

Intermediate

The new ANSI/IES LP-30 is a user’s guide to TM-30. This presentation reviews LP-30 and its phase-by-phase explanation of how lighting designers can integrate TM-30 into their design workflow. It includes examples of deliverables for each phase. Attendees will also receive discounts on the purchase of TM-30 and LP-30.

Knowledge of TM-30 is helpful, but not required, for this presentation.

Learning Objectives

  • Understand how light can induce chroma shift and hue shift, and how they affect color perception of objects and materials.
  • Describe the TM-30 Design Intents of Preference, Vividness, and Fidelity.
  • Determine the TM-30 information gathered at each stage of the design process.
  • Integrate TM-30 into the design process and specification documents.

Speaker

Jason Livingston
Jason Livingston
Principal
Studio T+L

Jason Livingston is the principal of Studio T+L, a lighting design and theatre consulting firm based in Brooklyn, New York. His lighting design work ranges from hospitality to houses of worship, and from commercial offices to performing arts centers and experiential spaces. For more than a decade he has been the Co-Chair of the IES Color Committee and has contributed to IES publications LP-30, LS-5, TM-30, and articles in LD+A and FIRES. He is a frequent speaker on topics of lighting design, TM-30, and color rendering.

Jason has been a lighting educator for over 30 years and is currently on the faculty of New York School of Interior Design and Fashion Institute of Technology. His teaching work led him to write the leading lighting design textbook “Designing with Light: The Art, Science, and Practice of Architectural Lighting Design” as well as “Fundamentals of Energy Efficient Lighting and Controls.”

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