“The use of light across all art forms is a constant source of interest whereas light in nature is a source of awe and inspiration. Light in the arts elicits a subjective response whereas natural light is objective, universal and a unifying element across humanity. It is bigger than our biggest creations and attuned to our physiology. ........”
Keith Bradshaw, 1/2 Designing Lighting Global - VOL III Issue 1
Event | Illuminating the Future
“......The arts offer us humanities' insights and interpretations whereas nature is limitless and incomprehensible; sometimes simple and calming and other times psychedelic and mesmerising. In simple terms, our work is all about chasing after the same experiences and emotions that natural light inspires within humanity.”
Keith Bradshaw, 2/2 Designing Lighting Global - VOL III Issue 1
“I am out with lanterns looking for myself.”
Emily Dickinson
Award | At-Turaif was awarded Heritage Lighting Project of the Year at Light Middle East 2025
“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
“There Is a Light That Never Goes Out”
The Smiths, The Queen Is Dead (1986)
An Urban Lighting Solution
Happy Halloween
Event | The Light Within Us
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks, you can think up if you only you try.”
Dr Seuss
“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
Maya Angelou
Project | Two Taikoo Place, Hong Kong
Happy Pride Month!
Event | Well done team HD5K! Fantastic effort!
“Light is the most important person in the picture.”
Claude Monet
“Light is not so much something that reveals, as it itself the revelation.”
James Turrell
Event | Happy Christmas from all the team
“Apricity: The warmth of the sun in winter”
“Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.”
Claude Debussy
“Twas a light that made darkness itself appear a thing of comfort.”
Robert Southey
“In nature, light creates the colour. In the picture, colour creates the light.”
Hans Hofmann
“Outstanding, remarkable lighting scheme reaction to the architecture. Just brilliant”
FX Award Judges 2022
“For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in its stream of stars — pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across eternal seas of space and time.”
Henry Beston
“All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.”
Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
“Light.
Light.
The visible reminder of Invisible Light.”
T.S. Eliot
“The world touches us and we touch the world, primarily through the medium of light.”
Juhani Pallasmaa
“One of my very first memories is a narrow stripe of sunlight coming in to the room. Light moving on the wall creating shadows. The room is very quiet and the feeling is poetic.”
Kristina Riska.
“Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light.”
Toni Morrison
“Light is the only connection we have with the Universe beyond our solar system and the only connection our ancestors had with anything beyond Earth.”
Professor Brian Cox
“........ could these fractals be introduced into building and interior design to improve wellbeing in more sustainable ways?”
See 'Thinking about Lighting and Biophilic Design. Part 1/2'
“The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?”
Charles Eames, Designer
Inspiration | No light
“When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.”
URSULA K. LE GUIN, AUTHOR
“To love beauty is to see light.”
Victor Hugo
“Information is light. Information, in itself, about anything, is light.”
Tom Stoppard - Night and Day
Sunset looking east and west
“Light at the end of the tunnel”
An expression of hope, currently used to describe Covid Vaccines
“One kind word can warm three winter months.”
Japanese Proverb
“Light is the most important person in the picture.”
Claude Monet
Visit to Christmas Light at the Botanics, Edinburgh
A magic moment
“Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult: the atmosphere of lamps or moonlight.”
Edgar Degas
“Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness”
Pablo Picasso
The view from 22
“Light is therefore colour”
J.W. Turner