19 with Suzan Tillotson - Founder and CEO of Tillotson Design Associates

Published: April 29, 2019, 4:44 a.m.

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Suzan founded Tillotson Design Associates with twenty-three years of lighting design experience. She has won over one hundred lighting design awards for her work, including a 2018 International Dark Sky Association Lighting Design and Technology Award and the 2017 Lighting Designer of the Year at the Lighting Design Awards. 

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Suzan Tillotson is one of the finest lighting designers in the world right now and I am honored to have met her already 9 years ago. Now I am fortunate to get to know and share the story behind her success, challenges, highlights and trends she observes in the lighting design industry that are needed or are about to happen. Please check out her amazing projects and references here: http://www.tillotsondesign.com/

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Suzan has also been featured in numerous national and international publications. She is a former member of the IALD Board of Directors, a former IALD NY area Regional Coordinator, and was president of the IES Southwest Louisiana Section. She has also served as an awards judge for the New York IES Lumens and the IALD. Suzan has taught the New York IES Introductory Lighting Course, and numerous lighting design and rendering workshops. She has guest lectured on lighting design at Louisiana State University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, University of Arkansas, Cornell University, McGill University, and Dalhousie University. She also taught lighting to graduate-level architecture students at Princeton University. Suzan was the keynote speaker for the 2018 United States Lighting Magazine 40 Under 40 Awards and a presenter at the 2017 Dark Sky Association Annual Meeting and the 2017 Lightspace Conference in LA.

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Suzan graduated with a Bachelor of Interior Design; from the Louisiana State University School of Architecture where, in 2012, she gave the commencement speech and was the recipient of the 2012 Distinguished Alumni Award.

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Suzan has directed all phases of design for a wide variety of award-winning domestic and overseas interior and exterior lighting projects including the new Bloomberg European Headquarters and London Mithraeum in London, UK; the Dee and Charles Wyly Theater in Dallas, TX; the R/GA Offices; Lincoln Center North Plaza and South Campus; and One Vanderbilt Tower, the Perelman Center at WTC, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art; in New York, NY.

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