The Opportunity for Modern Lighting Design- the basic of Grow Light

Recent years, desk top grow light is more and more popular, but why this kind of lights(Decorative lighting) are being designed? What is the origin of the lights? The following I will bring you a brief introduction about the Time Opportunity of Modern Lighting Design. 

Original artificial light source:

1. Fire: About 300,000 years ago, primitive Homo sapiens used fire as a heat source and light source

2. Oil lamps: 70,000 years ago primitive oil lamps, 1780s modern oil lamps

3. Candles: ancient Egyptian primitive candles, Roman wick candles, 19th appeared modern candles

4. Gas lamps: Since the 1780s industrial revolution, GAS is used to burn

The First Revolution in Lighting Technology: The Invention of the Incandescent Lamp in 1879

The Second Lighting Technology Revolution: The Fluorescent Lamp Debuts in 1938

The Third Lighting Technology Revolution: The Invention and Development of Solid State Light Sources

With the biological and behavioral effects of light that can be integrated at the same time, as well as the physiological and psychological effects of lighting and people, and the application of Internet technology, the third lighting revolution has become the most exciting lighting design field in history. An era of great change with the greatest opportunities and challenges.

Maslow’s eight-level theory of needs:

• The need to transcend: Transcending the values of the individual self, such as mystical experiences, service to others, pursuit of science
• The need for self-actualization: the pursuit of realizing and perfecting one’s own abilities or potentials
• Aesthetic needs: to appreciate and find beauty, balance, form, etc.
• Cognitive needs: needs for knowledge and understanding, curiosity, exploration, meaning and predictability
• Respect needs: Respect for oneself (dignity, achievement, mastery, independence) and respect for others (eg, status, prestige)
• Belonging and love needs: Emotional connections or relationships with others
• Safety needs: need to be stable, safe, protected, orderly, free from fear and anxiety, etc.
• Physiological needs: food, water, air, sleep, sexual needs, etc.

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (Maslow and Lowery, 1998):

• The lower four are called deficiencies. The lower fourth-order needs are directly related to the survival of individuals, also known as deficiencies. When this need is not met, it directly threatens life and survival
• The fifth to eight levels are called the growth levels and represent needs that are optional. The satisfaction of the needs of the fifth to eighth levels can make people healthy, long-lived and energetic, so it is called growth needs

Lighting at its most basic contributes to the physiological need to see and to the need for safety. Lighting also has a role to play in the need to belong, because lighting as an element of fashion can be used to define groups.

So The Reason Why Decorative Lighting Are Being Designed Has TWO DIRECTIONS:

• In one direction the prospect is of lighting as a commodity driven solely by price with a limited range of standard equipment and designs.
• In the other the prospect is of a more sophisticated approach in which new technology, new understanding and new objectives combine to produce lighting better suited to the needs and concerns of mankind in the 21st century.

The above is the basic of the development of decorative lighting( such as house plant lighting), Next Time we will bring you a task: Which challenges decorative lights are facing?

The following is our led indoor garden: Wooden Table Lamp, It’s special for flowers or Ornamental plants. You can put it in the living room, office, and so on. Such design goes well with different kinds of decoration style. Also a good decoration to your home.