Let There be Light!

February is the month during which we’re craving more light.  Although the days are getting longer, Spring can’t come soon enough.  The snow, shoveled into piles that hover seven feet high above our driveway, have been demoralizing.  Today the sun made an appearance, making the snow dazzlingly bright.  The high light reflectance off the snow reminded me of how we use color and light reflectance when we design our interiors.  In an overwhelmingly gray environment, typical of the raw concrete buildings of Paul Rudolf at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, and also of the gray cube farms of companies like Cisco Systems, bright white and bold color can be used to bring that startling, dazzling, happy feeling that we got today right at the end of our driveway on a rare sunny day in winter.




First three images Leslie Saul and Associates. Final photograph Paul Rudolph The University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.