May 21, 2025
Beacon Awards 2025 Presented by DLFNY is Now Open for Submissions
Photo Credit: Doug Holt
Proceeds Fund the Lana Lenar Lighting Empowerment Scholarship. Awards Ceremony Takes Place on Wednesday, October 29th, 2025, Sony Hall.
The Beacon Awards 2025, the Designers Lighting Forum of New York’s (DLFNY) awards program that honors and publicly recognizes excellence in lighting design are open for submissions.
Now in its second year, lighting designers, lighting consultants, architects, interior designers, and industrial designers who have practices within the greater New York Metro area are invited to enter. For 2025, the Beacon Awards have expanded the number of categories designers can enter from six last year to ten in 2025 - New York Project, Residential, Commercial Interior, Hospitality, Exterior, Experiential, Architectural Product Design, Decorative Product Design, Retail, and Cultural Institution.
An ICON Award will be given to an individual, studio, or firm, which has demonstrated exceptional commitment to advancing lighting design in the built environment. The recipient of this award is selected by the DLFNY Awards Committee and approved by the DLFNY Board.
“Our Inaugural Beacon Awards surpassed all expectations with the quality and quantity of submissions,” says Charles Pavarini III, chairman of the Beacon Awards committee. This year we are expanding the award categories to give a broader arena in which designers can showcase their projects. New categories include Commercial Interiors, Decorative Product Design, Cultural Institutions, and Experiential Lighting Installations. “All funds raised support the DLFNY’s Lana Lenar Lighting Empowerment Scholarship to further the future of upcoming Lighting Designers.”
Winners will be announced and feted on Wednesday, October 29, 2024, at the Beacon Awards Ceremony at Sony Hall in Midtown Manhattan.
- September 15 - Submissions Due
- September 22 - Judging Begins
- October 29 - Awards Ceremony
SONY HALL
235 West 46th Street
4:00pm - 7:30pm EST
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About the DLFNY Lenar Lighting Empowerment Scholarship
The DLFNY Lenar Lighting Empowerment Scholarship provides financial support to students enrolled full-time in university-level lighting programs. Students enrolled at the following schools are currently eligible: Parsons School of Design and the New York School of Interior Design. Individual awardees, numbers of awardees, and scholarship amounts will be determined by the schools’ lighting program directors. Interested students may contact them.
About the DLFNY
The Designers Lighting Forum of New York (DLFNY) is an organization dedicated to exploring the power of light in design and the latest in lighting innovation and education. The DLFNY supports formal lighting education through scholarships and contributions to local universities and design schools, as well as national programs. Founded in 1934 and continuously led by a volunteer Board of Managers, we are supported by the DLFNY general membership, the generosity of its corporate sponsors, and financial proceeds from LEDucation. The DLFNY enthusiastically provides designers, architects, manufacturers and their representatives, contractors, educators, and students with opportunities to network and experience the wonder of lighting in New York City and beyond.
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