The Russian Lighting Design Competition is Russia's main competition for lighting specialists. One of the important tasks of the contest for the 23 years of its existence has been to educate and popularize the profession of a lighting designer.

– How do you draw attention to your portfolio if you are a lighting designer?
– Take part in the contest and get an award and recognition!

Thanks to the competition, novice lighting designers gain the opportunity to express themselves and their talents, and lighting companies and manufacturers gain recognition from the professional community and pay attention to their best cases and new products.

ABOUT THE CONTEST

For the first time, the Russian Lighting Design competition was organized by VNISI (All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Lighting Engineering) in 2001. Over the 20 years of the competition's existence, hundreds of works have been reviewed, and some young talents have had the opportunity to implement their projects in factories of world brands, as well as to get acquainted with the intricacies of the organization of the production process.

The premiere took place on September 19, 2024, as part of the INTERLIGHT | INTELLIGENT CONSTRUCTION in RUSSIA exhibition.

Category "Completed lighting projects"

Winner: Lighting of the memorial complex in memory of the victims of the terrorist attack at school No. 1 in Beslan
Authors: Ksenia Osipenko, Valery Ovsyannikov

Category "Projects"

Winner: Chernyshyov Estate: Secrets of the Past and Creative Present
Authors: a group of students of A.N. Kosygin Russian State University - P.I. Ryazankina, S.A. Akopyan, M.I. Naryshkina, N.V. Guskova, A.V. Muradova, V.I. Popova, N.N. Razenkova, I.S. Safronova, A.S. Yurchenko.

II place: Concept of landscape lighting of Residential Complex "Legend", Kovrov, Vladimir region.
Author: Katerina Kazakova, Nizhny Novgorod State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering

III place: Design principles of forming the environment of the Festival of Light in the city of Veliky Novgorod.
Author: Anastasia Krayushkina, student of Stroganov Russian State University of Arts and Crafts.

THE WORKS ARE EVALUATED BY A PROFESSIONAL JURY OF WORLD–CLASS LIGHTING DESIGNERS:

MEMBERS OF PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

LUCI - Lighting Urban Community International, IALD - International Association of Lighting Designers, Union of Designers of Russia, etc.

REPRESENTATIVES OF THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY

VNISI, NIU "MEI".

TEACHERS OF LIGHTING DESIGN

MARSH, MARCH, LiDS, Laboratory of Light, etc.

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"Evaluating the work of Russian lighting designers turned out to be an unexpectedly interesting experience for me. It was obvious that the presented works were made by specialists with different backgrounds, but all of them were of quite high quality, which I was pleasantly surprised by"

- Isabelle Korten, Radiance35, Lighting Urban Community International, competition jury

The jury of the 2024 contest

Live broadcast on the eve of the 2024 contest "Russian lighting design. What's new?"

On July 8, an online round table dedicated to the Russian Lighting Design competition was held.

Topics of the meeting:

new nominations of the contest
the most interesting works of the previous year
criteria for a successful project
main trends in Russian and global lighting design in 2024
career prospects

Speakers:

Anastasia Prikhodko

Candidate of Architecture, Associate Professor of the Department of Architectural Physics at the Moscow Architectural Institute (MArchI), author of the educational project "Laboratory of Light".
Konstantin Tsepelev

Lighting designer, member of the competition jury, founder and director of Bright Buro
Ksenia Lanikina

Lighting designer, founder and head of lighting design studio YARKO-YARKO
VALERIA GORELOVA

Lighting designer, founder of lighting design bureau THE ViEW, co-founder of the magazine about light and lighting design [WAVE LINE], ambassador of Women in Lighting in Russia.
Olga Arshanskaya

Producer, Director of the International Festival of Light and Media Art "Night of Light" in Gatchina, Director of Show Consulting School
Ivan Vasilev

Lighting Designer. Member of the International Association of Lighting Design IALD