Stand inside the lighting system before you specify it.
The Lab is a working environment — not a showroom — where lighting systems, control platforms, and finish materials are tested, compared, and experienced under real conditions before they are specified into a project. It’s where lighting decisions get settled before construction locks them in.
Seven demonstration zones. Control systems from top-tier integration platforms to contractor-grade and DIY level. A fully finished kitchen lit by six distinct techniques under a single scene.
See the space before you visit it.
Every zone in the Lab demonstrates a different layer of how a lighting system is designed, controlled, and experienced.
The Lab in motion.
Scene transitions and layered lighting are best understood in motion. Watch how a single room transforms as techniques layer in and out.
Lighting decisions, tested before they’re built.
Illumify is a lighting design firm led by a licensed engineer, and the Design Lab is where our first checkpoint — Test before lock — happens. Project teams see fixtures, finishes, and control scenes in real conditions before specification. The Lab also hosts accredited CEU courses presented by industry providers, helping the design community understand lighting as a coordinated system from early concept through execution.
Decisions Tested First
Illumify carries the design from concept through commissioning. The Lab is where the most consequential decisions are seen and settled before they reach a drawing, a purchase order, or a ceiling.
Fewer RFIs, Fewer Compromises
A decision settled in the Lab doesn’t come back later as an RFI, a substitution debate, or a surprise at move-in.
Education First
Programming at the Lab is strictly educational and non-promotional. Attendees come to learn, experience the space, and draw their own conclusions — there is no selling.
Bring the decision you haven’t settled.
A focused working session with your project team in the Lab — usually 60 to 90 minutes — to resolve the lighting decisions that are hardest to judge on paper.
Your finish samples
Stone, cabinetry, wood, fabric, and paint, seen under the fixtures and color temperatures proposed for the project.
Your reflected ceiling plan
Fixture types, spacing, and beam patterns compared side by side before the specification is final.
Your control question
Scenes, dimming, and control platforms experienced in a real room, so the choice is made on experience, not literature.
Lab sessions are part of every Illumify engagement, and available on their own to project teams working through a specific decision.
What you’ll experience in the Lab.
Layered Lighting Techniques
Six distinct techniques running simultaneously in one finished kitchen — luminous ceiling panel, cove indirect, recessed task, under-cabinet, wall sconce, and picture light.
Control Platform Comparison
Lighting control systems across the full spectrum — from top-tier integration platforms to contractor-grade and DIY-level systems — operating side by side.
Material Response Sessions
Bring your material samples. See exactly what your stone, wood, and fabric selections do under the light that will actually hit them — before construction locks those decisions in.
Color Science in Practice
CRI, R9, and color temperature comparisons under controlled conditions — how finishes actually render under real sources.
Scenes & Transitions
Experience how a room changes as scenes shift — and what dimming curves, transition timing, and tuning mean for the finished result.
Education & Presentation Space
A dedicated area for CEU courses, technical sessions, and group programming — inside the working environment itself.
Built for everyone who makes lighting decisions.
Architects & Interior Designers
Lab decision sessions, material response reviews, and hosted AIA / IDCEC CEU courses tailored to design professionals.
Builders, GCs & Electrical Contractors
Technical sessions on commissioning, installation coordination, and the gap between “installed” and “finished” — built for the people who deliver the work.
MEP Engineers & System Integrators
Hands-on exposure to multi-platform controls, scene design, and how lighting decisions affect electrical and integration scope.
Owners & Developers
Homeowners and developers make consequential lighting decisions on every project. The Lab shows what those decisions look like before they’re locked in.
Real Estate & Property Professionals
Owner’s representatives and real estate professionals — education on how lighting quality affects the value, performance, and longevity of the spaces they manage and sell.
Manufacturer Partners
A design-led environment for presenting accredited CEU content through representative networks — creating alignment with the design community earlier in the process.
By appointment.
Visits are by appointment — one-on-one with your project team, or as part of an upcoming CEU course or technical session. Every session is kept intentionally small.
Norcross, GA 30071