The Right Light

'I think this would be a very important book, and I would want it in my personnel library. I have dealt with the subject in conference panel presentations, always to an enthusiastic audience. Such documentation is very important to a discipline where any kind of documentation is very difficult...The proposed book would be of value to MFA lighting design courses in the USA, indeed, this kind of book would be most appropriate for almost all universities in the USA...I think addressing aesthetics and conceptual and philosophical issues about design decision-making is most important (and most difficult to articulate) and we need more good work in this area. The author is correct, there is really not anything exactly like this out there, thus I would hope would be popular.' - Michael Ramsaur, Professor and Director of Production, Stanford University, USA 'The proposed book would certainly be valuable to students on the two lighting programmes I teach, and to some extent to other programmes in my School (e.g. Theatre Design). The process - and particularly the making of aesthetic judgments - of lighting designers is quite opaque, and there is only a limited amount of material that addresses this in the current literature. The proposed book would help fill this gap, so I would be very keen to see the book published.' - Nick Hunt, Head of School: Design, Management and Technical Arts, Rose Bruford College, UK