Skiras light design on cranes in Pula harbour

Dean Skira (born 20 October 1962) is a Croatian lighting designer.[1] Skira founded his own lighting design practice in 1990 in New York City, USA.[2] He lives and works in Pula, Croatia.

In 1986 Skira studied lighting and interior design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. Since 1995 he and his team of designers and engineers have based their work in Croatia.

Skira is a Certified Lighting Designer (CLD), a member of IALD (International Association of Lighting Designers) and the IES (The Illuminating Engineering Society) of North America, New York section. He is also affiliated with the Croatian Lighting Association.

One of Skira's best-known projects is the "Lighting Giants", in Pula, Croatia, which changed the shipping cranes at the Uljanik Shipyard into a moving lighted art installation.[3]

Notable projects

Awards and recognitions

Bibliography

In 2010 Dean Skira authored the book My light, about some of the lighting installations and artistic pieces that he has designed during the previous twenty years. The preface was written by Piero Castiglioni. The book was published by Italian publisher Lupetti Editori di Comunicazione and Croatian publisher Arhitekst.

Notes and references

  1. ^ Jim Powell (13 April 2013). "The Observer's 20 photographs of the week | From the Observer". The Guardian. theguardian.com. Retrieved 2018-09-06.
  2. ^ "4aMagazine: A sustainable talk with the lighting designer Dean Skira". New4amagazine.com. Retrieved 2018-09-06.
  3. ^ "Shipyard Cranes Come Alive in Mesmerizing Croatian Light Projection". ArtNetNews.
  4. ^ "Novamed Polyclinic by Skira lighting design". Enlighter Magazine. Retrieved 2018-09-06.
  5. ^ "CPD 6 2014: Sustainable lighting | Features | Building Design". Bdonline.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-09-06.
  6. ^ "Snapshot" Mondo*Arc, Oct/Nov2012 Issue 69
  7. ^ Hawkins, Si. "Lighting the Way". Let's Go with Rynair.
  8. ^ "Croatian designer creates giant light show by illuminating shipyard cranes. De Zeen.
  9. ^ "Croatian company Skira wins biggest lighting design award in the United States | Croatia Week". 26 August 2020.
  10. ^ ""Prizes Delta 2014: the light Trick, of the designer Dean Skira for iGuzzini, wins the Delta of Gold". ICANDELA.
  11. ^ "Designer Dean Skira wins inaugural Codega Prize". MondoArc, 25 October 2013
  12. ^ "Broken Light wins IALD Radiance Award | News | Lighting". Archived from the original on 2014-02-04. Retrieved 2014-03-04.
  13. ^ "29th IALD Awards: Daglicht & Vorm Win Radiance". lighting.com. Retrieved 2018-09-06.
  • Skira, Dean (2010). My light. Croatia: Oris and Lupetti. pp. 68–69. ISBN 9788883913303.

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