What does "floodlighting design" mean?

Art designers, mainly creative, are also familiar with the performance technology of lighting, and the art/technology ratio is about 7:3. I estimate that such designers account for less than 10% of the designer team. Most of them are from art, architecture and decoration to lighting design. They are very creative and stick to their own ideas. When they get a project, they always have their own unique ideas. They exchanged ideas with architects, sought common ground while reserving differences, and finally realized a very distinctive expression.

Technical designers, which I often call "lighting engineers", focus on applied technology, but they also have their own opinions on the artistic expression and creativity of lighting. The ratio of art to technology is about 3:7. This design seems to be only 10%, and most of them are transformed from light sources, electrical appliances, electric power and other majors. This kind of designers can clearly understand the architect's idea, and quickly put forward the idea of lighting coordination, and finally choose appropriate and accurate products to realize it according to this idea.

An artist is actually a renderer. This kind of so-called "designer" basically draws an effect diagram casually, and then piles up a lot of commonly used lamps on the building with a little common sense and experience, which leads to a far cry from the effect diagram confirmed to the customer at the beginning, or installs huge lamps everywhere, and the appearance of lamps affects the appearance of the building during the day. Sadly, this kind of "designer" can probably account for more than 50% of the employees! Fortunately, some of these designers will study and learn some lighting technologies and then become first-class designers.

Pre-sales technical service providers are actually disguised lamp salesmen, usually technical service personnel of lamp manufacturers. They don't have to understand the architect's ideas and architectural features. In short, our factory "designs" what it produces. Whether you are a European building or a modern building, our factory is a rainbow tube, so we will outline every outline for you; Whether you are a hotel or an office building, our factory makes led, which will give you a red-green color change.

Generally, the drafters of construction drawings can only draw CAD, have no artistic cells and don't understand lamps. They only know that according to the arrangement of the "leader", circles, squares and lines are marked in rows on the plan and elevation. This "leader" is sometimes the secretary of a bureau, sometimes the director of an office, sometimes the owner's boss, and sometimes the sales manager of an engineering company ... This strange phenomenon often leads to some ridiculous design schemes: three 250W sodium lamps are tied to a small tree less than 6 meters high; 20 1000W halogen lamps are arranged around the 20-meter-high tower. A glass curtain wall building uses 100 2000W spotlights for floodlighting.