Light Collective

The first night in Marfa was absolutely Stellar. The architecture tours, the dinner, the company all added to an amazing experience under the stars. Ending with the Marfa Lights. Wow.

Just arrived in Marfa, Texas one day ahead of the workshop with and this place is amazing.

Can’t wait to see it at night and venture just outside the city limits for some dark skies.

It was a long straight road to get here with a stop at Prada Marfa and the Valentine Bar.

On the second day of +building we celebrated 10 years of the Lighting Design 40 under 40 programme. Over the years, we’ve had lots of conversations and about how much the programmes means to all the past winners, some even citing it as the point they doubled down on their lighting career.

We started the 10 year anniversary by honouring this years winners. This year we had over 150 entries, from 32 countries and, every year, we ask six high profiles judges to get involved and give them the hard task of finding 40 winners. Getting into that last 40 is really difficult and we see some people who we know are amazing designers come really close. If you didn’t win this year, please keep trying.

Following on from the winners for 2025 we invited winners from 2016 onwards to come to the stage and share why they chose light and what they get from being involved in this amazing profession. It was an emotional, moving, inspiring and illuminating session. Thank you to all our speakers.

The biggest thank you goes to everyone who joined us at the end of Monday afternoon to celebrate the winners and listen to the speakers. Once again it was a full house with plenty of networking afterwards.

As always, thanks to FILIX Lighting and Selux Lighting for their support.