SoLux™: News

  September 2007, Kaune Sudendorf Gallery for Contemporary Photography, Cologne Germany, featuring works by Peter Granser, chose SoLux 3500K Black-Back bulbs (black coating eliminates spill light) to light Cologne's newest gallery. Sotheby's Director of Photography Europe called it the best opening of the year.

August 2007 Tailored Lighting works with Biomedical Students from the University of Rochester to develop light for dental color matching. Click here for University's press release.

April 2007, The Department of Homeland Security has specified SoLux as a preferred light source for image capture and image evaluation . 

February 2007, Tailored Lighting donates lighting for Signature International, a benefit, featuring works by the following celebrities to raise money for their favorite charity: Jessica Alba, Laura Harring, Michael Madsen, Natalie Portman, Susan Sarandon, Rachel Weisz, Forest Whitaker. At left photo of Laura Harring.

 February 2007, American Photo, Images Of the Year Competition 2007 featured SoLux Lighting to display all photographs.

January 2007, Land's End selects SoLux as its primary light source to illuminate their main evaluation room for its Seasonal Collection.

January 2007, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art installs SoLux in time for its, Cradle of Christianity: Treasures from the Holy Land Exhibition.

December 2006, Tailored Lighting is pleased to announce the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan is the most recent museum to install SoLux to illuminate its extraordinary collection of Chinese art. Click here to visit museum's website.

November 2006, in Inkjetart.com "SoLux makes Art Rock" Read a glowing  review of SoLux for Photography, Art, and Color Proofing."

September 2006, as a result of efforts begun in September 2005, Tailored Lighting President and SoLux Inventor Kevin Kevin McGuire traveled to Cologne, Germany to attend the Grand Opening of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum French Impressionist floor lit by SoLux.  SoLux has received positive press and enthusiastic feedback from the museum's director, Andreas Bluhm:

"Mr. Breuer and his team have finished the gallery no. 3.  We have also moved a small Van Gogh painting into our temporary exhibition space lit by - you guessed it - Solux. The effect is striking. It is going to blow everybody's mind"Click here to see results.

September 2006, George Eastman House, Pete Turner Exhibit, chooses SoLux as the exclusive light source. Click here for more stunning images.

The show looks incredible. I doubt anyone has seen a show of color photography so well lit.
Rick Hock, Director Exhibitions

"Each print is dramatically spot lit like a gem, I couldn't ask for a better presentation."
Pete Turner, Photographer talking about SoLux in American Photo

 

For 2006 Tailored Lighting will be co-sponsoring the Epson Print Academy along with Adobe and Microsoft.  At left, SoLux illuminating Epson produced prints. Note the quality of surrounding lights compared to SoLux. Click here for more details.

November 2005, an independent study confirms SoLux as the most accurate replication of daylight on the market. Learn more by going to our Specification Page.

June 2005, Marquette Building in Chicago, Tiffany Mosaic, relit by Bruce Yarnell Associates using SoLux 3500K 17 Degree, "When you are down in the lobby looking up at the mosaics it is just incredible the colors that pop and you remain standing there in awe." Margaret F. Boersema, Building Manager.  See before and after pictures

April 2005, Dan Roberts, Director of Macular Degeneration Support, Inc., has added SoLux Task lamps using the 3500K bulb to the "recommend" list and will take the SoLux Task lamp to a Macular Degeneration conference in FL.  For more information visit www.mdsupport.org more specifically: http://www.mdsupport.org/library/hazard.html

February 2005, SoLux has been chosen by PPG to illuminate a new color display room.  Over 225 SoLux 3500K bulbs and fixtures will light PPG's state-of-the-art display room to show off its latest color palates and innovations to its customers.

January 2005, SoLux has been chosen by Honda for its quality control due to SoLux's "Unsurpassed simulation of daylight" and "Excellent color rendering index rating for clarity and sharp resolution" in addition Honda states, "The Solux Daylight Light source simulates daylight more accurately than any other commercial light source and does not exhibit any of the disruptive "flickering" that is common in fluorescent light sources."

SoLux is being used for taking photographs of the oldest copy of the new testament dating back to 165 AD.  

Independent Study finds learning rates are 26 percent higher in reading, 20 percent higher in math in rooms with the most daylight.  Go to study. Companion study found Retail Sales were 40% higher in stores lit with daylight.   Go to study

Tailored Lighting is honored to be chosen as the lighting supplier for the 9-11 tribute, "After September 11: Images from Ground Zero", photographs by Joel Meyerowitz.

Popular Science reprints AP article on SoLux.

Wall Street Journal writes an article about SoLux Quoting Irene Martin, head of exhibitions for the Los Angeles County Museum, where the van Gogh exhibit is currently on view. "You can see every brushstroke on their surface... You can actually see the light as if it were glowing out of the paintings."

Read about SoLux installed in the Memorial Art Gallery (visitor comments) containing works from Monet, Renoir, and, Cézanne in a front page newspaper article. click here