Lighting

“We provide a total lighting solution, be it daylight, artificial light or product design, and at all scales from small art based installations to the largest city centre developments.”
Mark Ridler, chair of lighting

BDP’s lighting team delivers people-centred designs that are seamlessly integrated with daylight.

Our work is steeped in the quantifiable benefits good lighting design can deliver, such as a 40% increase in sales or a 25% improvement in office workers’ mental function.

Our solutions:

  • put people first — meeting the needs of ALL those who come into contact with the design
  • increase productivity, profits and visitor numbers
  • exceed environmental / sustainability targets

Our team comprises architects, theatre and interior designers, academics, engineers, artists and scientists. And if a solution doesn’t exist, we use the latest technology and research to invent it.

For more information, contact Mark Ridler, chair of lighting.

  • Mark Ridler Lighting Product Anatomy

    BDP regularly reviews and tests new technology and luminaires which are published in the industry magazine Lighting.

  • BDP shortlisted in the public buildings category for the 2013 Lighting Design Awards BDP shortlisted for the 2013 Lighting Design Awards

    BDP shortlisted in the public buildings category for the 2013 Lighting Design Awards

  • BDP in Lighting Journal BDP in Lighting Journal

    Page 27 PwC is used as an example of low energy lighting in a discussion about the new Part L of the building regulations.
    Page 46 a technical article about a new LED technology.Lighting Journal December 2012

  • BDP's lighting project featured in Mondo magazine BDP's lighting project in Mondo magazine

    BDP's lighting project, Victoria and Albert Museum Fashion Gallery in London, featured in Mondo magazine (page 76-80) Issue #69 2012

  • Light in Film Light in Film

    Lighting associate, Colin Ball is one of the judges for this year’s Light in Film which celebrates film lighting.

  • IALD – Michael Bosanko IALD – Michael Bosanko

    BDP’s lighting designers will be hosting an event organised by the International Association of Lighting Designers with internationally acclaimed artist, Michael Bosanko.

  • AceTech International Lighting Summit 2012 AceTech International Lighting Summit 2012

    Lighting designer Brendan Keely presents Designing the Night at AceTech in Mumbai.

  • Noche Zero - Our Time To Embrace Darkness Noche Zero - Our Time To Embrace Darkness

    London lighting associate Colin Ball will present Lighting and Culture in New Cities at Noche Zero, an educational summit and darkness event in the Atacama desert on 16 October.

  • Two BDP Projects Shortlisted for Top Design Awards. Two BDP Projects Shortlisted for Top Design Awards

    BDP has two projects shortlisted in the lighting design category of the FX International Interior Design Awards. The Point at Lancashire County Cricket Club in Manchester and the Victoria and Albert Museum Fashion Gallery in London have both made the shortlist.

  • Mark Ridler features in Decade of Design anniversary video. Mark Ridler features in Decade of Design anniversary video

    Lighting magazine’s Decade of Design video features Mark Ridler, lighting director at BDP. BDP was nominated for Design Practice of the Decade at the 2012 Lighting Awards, a special category to mark the international architectural lighting competition’s 10th year.

  • BDP won the Low Carbon category at this year’s Lighting Design Awards at the London Hilton on 21 March. BDP won the Low Carbon category at this year’s Lighting Design Awards

    BDP won the Low Carbon category at this year’s Lighting Design Awards at the London Hilton on 21 March.

  • BDP shortlisted for four Lighting Design Awards

    BDP shortlisted for four Lighting Design Awards

  • Firstsite in Mondo*arc Firstsite in Mondo*arc

    Love at Firstsite’. Mondo*arc covers BDP’s lighting scheme to Rafael Vinoly’s new contemporary arts centre in Colchester from page 52.

  • Mark Ridler in Lighting magazine Mark Ridler in Lighting magazine

    Mark Ridler in Lighting magazine on the challenges of working in schools, colleges and universities.

  • Joined-up lighting design Joined Up Lighting

    Joined-up lighting design. Successful integration of lighting into building design calls for close working among design teams on technical and aesthetic issues. Mark Ridler takes part in a forum hosted by Lutron.

  • Adding Zest to the display Adding Zest to the display

    Adding Zest to the display. The lighting design team at BDP accepted an invitation from Lighting to review Nualight’s new linear LED accent light for retail and to interrogate its designer, Dan Linehan. Mark Ridler and Luke Smith-Wightman got their hands on the fitting.

  • LED tape is on a roll LED tape is on a roll

    LED tape is on a roll. These are exciting times for LED products and one format, LED tape, is helping designers achieve previously unattainable goals. Mark Ridler, lighting director celebrates this far-reaching innovation and shares with Lighting readers the results of BDP’s own internal product study.

  • The Dark Art by Chris Lowe and Philip Rafael The Dark Art by Chris Lowe and Philip Rafael

    Light Design - The Dark Art by Chris Lowe and Philip Rafael. See page 24 of the Professional Lighting Design Magazine for their article on their understanding of how darkness is essential for truly inspirational light design.