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When I meet people for the first time and tell them I'm a lighting designer, they often ask, "Do you have any recommendations for lighting fixtures?". A lighting designer is a designer who engages in the act of designing spaces with light. When designing for lighting, they analyze the shape of the space, the finishes of the space, and think about how to make the space look with light, using lighting fixtures and lighting systems. Nowadays, lighting designers are often associated with architectural lighting and media facades, which have become more understood, but it's still an unfamiliar area of design.

 In the case of night landscape lighting, which is a design task that is visible to an unspecified number of people, the lighting designer analyzes the surrounding nighttime environment and creates a design concept, selects lighting fixtures, balances light, and designs how it will look at night. Nighttime landscape lighting often gives the façade of a building a different face from its daytime counterpart, creating an identity for the building. The lighting fixtures that we recognize as designer names and brands are often used as decorative features in interior lighting design. The role of light in interior spaces is to create a sense of space, to be functional for productivity, but most importantly, to be used as a finishing touch to a space. When the light is turned on and the space is illuminated, when the lights are turned off to go to sleep and the outside light is brought in, the space changes and takes on different expressions depending on the volume of light, the color of light, the shapes that are illuminated and the finishes that are reflected. When we design a lighting fixture, one of the most common mistakes we make is to design a form without thinking about the space it will be placed in. 

As space and design trends change over time, technology evolves, and materials become more diverse, it is important to always make the necessary design changes so that when the fixture is placed in the space or illuminated, the design will be accepted and loved without feeling awkward. Lighting is the final touch in architecture, giving a space character. It brings subjects to life and forms brand identity.