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This month’s issue of Lighting Design + Application<\/em> (LD+A) has a review of Designing With Light<\/em> by Fred Oberkircher. \u00a0He calls the book\u00a0“beautifully imaged” and “one of the best lighting design texts.” \u00a0Read the full review.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This month’s issue of Lighting Design + Application (LD+A) has a review of Designing With Light by Fred Oberkircher. \u00a0He calls the book\u00a0“beautifully imaged” and “one of the best lighting design texts.” \u00a0Read the full review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-book-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gZSw-6L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4407,"url":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=4407","url_meta":{"origin":419,"position":0},"title":"My New Book, Fundamentals of Energy Efficient Lighting and Controls, is Now Available","author":"Jason Livingston","date":"March 13, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm pleased and proud to announce that my new book, Fundamentals of Energy Efficient Lighting and Controls, is available for pre-order beginning today (March 13) and will begin shipping on April 3rd. 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