| Dane Murphy . LEED AP member. cascadia green building council pacific region www.cascadiagbc.org |
| Raised in the Northwest After receiving her BA in Fine Arts, Dane' worked as a painter and an educator. In the early 80's began working as a creative director at a prominent Portland Ad agency and was enterprising enough to open her own firm in '84 which focused on the Hospitality Industry. Her decades as one of Portland’s premiere advertising executives and graphic designers is marked by several awards including several coveted Rosies – awarded by the Portland Ad Federation for creative excellence in design. Yet the desire to practice her fine arts never left. |
| Back to her Roots In '99, she made the decision to use her fine arts skills and lighting background and began to create lighting with unusual textiles. Combined with her understanding of the emotional qualities of light, she cerated a multitude of textures and original shapes, designs, and ultimately task driven fixtures. She found that significant variations in light caused by diverse materials had a dramatic emotional impact on a room’s environment. This passion and the collaboration of light, color, and texture, have made light fixtures Dane's preferred canvas. Designing for the Future Raised with an appreciation for her natural surroundings, and never satisfied with the 'VANILLA' fixtures of the world, in 2005 Dane' developed new and sustainable solutions to lighting using zero tox mediums and reclaimed materials. She continues to create very special pieces that are interesting, task driven and friendly to the environment - making aesthetic sense of LEED lighting requirements, ensuring that every project is looked at through the lens of sustainability. She was LEED AP Certified in 2008 On the Horizon Aways designing and developing new versions of lighting techniques, her pieces continue to be contemporary, full of warmth and livable appeal. Please return to this site for new and evolving lighting designs, or visit her BLOG at http://danemurphydesign. blogspot.com |
| where ART meets SCIENCE |
| AWARD WINNING Sustainable DESIGN IIDA HONOR AWARD 2008 |
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| about the designer It’s not surprising that Dane` grew up to be an artist and lighting designer. Her grandmother was a dress designer from Milan in the 1920’s, and she was raised by talented musicians, and an electrical engineer. (in fact, she built a light bulb from raw materials for a 4th Grade Science project) Who knew that the two worlds of art and science would ultimately collide. |
| special pieces that are interesting, task driven and friendly to the environment, while making aesthetic sense of LEED lighting requirements, ensuring that every project is looked at through the lens of sustainability |