Cooper Lighting, a leading provider of innovative, high-quality lighting fixtures and related products to worldwide commercial, industrial, residential and utility markets, is calling for entries for its 36th Annual SOURCE Awards national lighting design competition which will take place in February 2013.
 
The competition, which focuses on furthering the understanding, knowledge and function of lighting as a primary element in design, is open to all lighting designers, architects, engineers, professional designers and consultants who use Cooper Lighting fixtures in an interior or exterior design project. Students currently enrolled in any of these disciplines are also eligible to enter projects based on conceptual lighting designs utilizing Cooper Lighting fixtures, and are judged in a separate student category. This year’s competition will once again seek a creative use of fixtures providing energy-efficient design solutions in addition to standard projects.
 
The competition requires the primary and predominant use of any or all of the Cooper Lighting brands, which include Halo, Halo Commercial, Metalux, Portfolio, Neo-Ray, Corelite, Sure-Lites, Lumark, McGraw-Edison, Fail-Safe, Lumière, Shaper, IRiS, Ametrix, RSA, io, Invue, MWS and Streetworks.
 
Projects will be judged on the blending of aesthetics, creative achievement, technical performance and to the degree which the lighting met project constraints and design concept goals. There will be no minimum or maximum number of awards given, as each project will be judged on its own merit. Award categories will include: Winner, Honorable Mention and Award of Recognition.
 
Throughout the competition’s 35-year history, winners have been awarded more than $600,000 as well as industry-wide recognition. Past entry applications have included commercial offices, retail stores, galleries, libraries, banks, hotels, restaurants, convention centers, entertainment facilities, churches and residences.