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Christmas is coming… but before that, it’s Halloween!
This year, celebrate Halloween in style with spooky lights and scary-or-fun décor that is guaranteed to appeal to all ages and that creates...
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Spread a message of optimism and fill your space with a #SUMMER atmosphere!
As the world slowly emerges from lockdown, cities and public spaces need and want to welcome people back. What better way to do this than by...
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Using light to control visitor flow at IFC mall Seoul
A few months ago, we spoke about how shopping centers can use a trail of light to control visitor flow AND create an interactive experience...
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Creating emotive experiences with light
Have you ever wondered why some memories can stay vivid for years while others fade with time? The answer is emotion. According to scientists...
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What’s the color of 2020?
2020 is not far off, so let’s look ahead and think about color and light for the year to come.You’d think that it would be a simple thing...
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How shopping centers can engage communities and win awards with light, design and creative thinking
If you read the news, it can sometimes seem as if we are living in troubling times. Different wants and needs, different perspectives and...
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Make fashion festive in the New Year
Ideas and inspiration to support fashion-driven shopping center and retail marketing campaignsIf you’re in retail, manage a shopping center...
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Make your home the talk of the town
As the winter season approaches, along with Christmas and New Year, we’re taking a look at some of the different types of buildings,...
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Telling a story with light in cities
Every city has a story to tell, and it tells its stories in myriad of different ways. The residents of the city have their own stories to...
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Ideas to help you get your festive lighting sorted – at the last minute!
In a panic about festive lighting and want to jump straight to recommendations from our team? Click hereThe winter season is fast approaching...
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Three ways to make your city sparkle this winter
Longer nights. Shorter days. Leaves turning gold and dropping from the trees. Yes, summer is over, autumn is underway and Christmas will be...
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How to choose the perfect Christmas tree for the festive season
Choosing the right Christmas tree for home is easy, but when it comes to making a statement, spreading festive cheer and filling a larger...
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Where theming and light collide (Part 2)
Last month we began to explore the benefits of theme parks staying open all year round, and we hinted at that light was the answer. If you...
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Making retail work for everyone
Next month, we’ll be attending the ICSC Retail Innovation Forum and the theme for 2019 is “Making Innovation Work for Everyone”.The...
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Where theming and light collide (Part 1)
If you’re in the theme park business, you’ll know only too well that it costs a great deal of money to run a successful and profitable...
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Japan’s Festa Luce Light Parks: and then there were two!
If you’re in Japan over the festive season this year, you’re in for a treat. Festa Luce in Wakayama Marina City will be back again for...
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Part of the delight comes from… the light!
Here at MK Illumination, we love light in all its forms (although we’re particularly passionate about energy-efficient LEDs for obvious...
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What cities and public spaces can learn from theme parks
Like theme parks, cities and public spaces actively run campaigns and organize events to attract both local visitors and travelers. Theme...
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The mixology series: create a successful marketing campaign by adding light to the mix
When it comes to marketing retail spaces and creating engaging campaigns for shopping centers, outlet centers, and malls, we all want to find...
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Spotlight on shopping centers: festive lighting in Finland, Germany, and the UK
This month, we’ll be taking a look at three different approaches to festive lighting in Finland, Germany, and the UK. Each of these centers...
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Light Art, Light Furniture and Safety in Cities
You love the idea of filling your city with public light art that is completely accessible to visitors. You want people of all ages to be...
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The power of placemaking with light
It’s undeniable that online retailers have been game-changers in offering convenience and speed. As a result, today’s shoppers have...
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Leisure and light: how to make a statement in your hotel with festive lighting
As we move towards the half-way point of 2019, hotels and other businesses in the leisure and tourism sector will inevitably start turning...
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Christmas is 7 months away. Now is the time to start planning your festive lighting.
Yes, we know – the current trend is to “live in the present and let the future take care of itself”. Whilst that may be a wonderful...
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Celebrating light: International Day of Light 2019
We’re celebrating the International Day of Light for the 4th time since 2015. In 2015, UNESCO brought together hundreds of national and...
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Festive lighting at Schultheiss Quartier helps people “rediscover Moabit””
Berlin’s newest shopping center, the Schultheiss Quartier, wanted their first Christmas of trading to give shoppers a warm welcome and many...
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Art imitates life: nature-inspired LEDs
Over the festive season in 2018/2019, our team in China helped Ruihong Tiandi create a series of nature-inspired lighting installations that...
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Water, water, everywhere… gleaming in pools of light!
Water attracts people because humans love and need water. It’s not just us saying this: it turns out that there are scientific reasons that...
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Turn your public space into a light park that attracts visitors, whatever the time of year
Festive lighting over the Christmas period is often a given for cities, towns, and public spaces, but how can you attract visitors in the...
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Case Study: A year of love in Sweden’s Väla Centrum
Väla Centrum (Väla) is an award-winning shopping center based on the outskirts of Helsingborg in Sweden. It’s a popular attraction for...
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Forests of Light: Tree-inspiration
Today is the International Day of Forests, and although we don’t do much in the way of lighting up forests (which of course have their own...
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How to create a summer attraction using festive lighting that looks great day and night
Summer is on its way but that doesn’t mean that it’s time to turn off the lights. The right lighting creates a magical atmosphere and...
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Lighting up the night for Ramadan
From sunrise to sunset, millions of Muslims around the world fast for the holy month of Ramadan. As soon as the sun sets, however, cities and...
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Spring is in the air. It’s time to create an experience…
Officially, spring doesn’t start until March 20th this year in the Northern Hemisphere, but here in Innsbruck, the air has a particular...
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Keeping Seefeld bright for the 2019 FIS Nordic Ski Championships
It’s not every year that a town gets to host an event like the FIS Nordic Ski Championships, but the Austrian town of Seefeld has played...
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Thinking differently: an interview with MK Illumination’s Klaus Mark and Georg Öhler
Being extraordinary is essential in a globalized world where ideas and aesthetics are becoming more uniform. Courage, creativity, and the...
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Helping Westgate Shopping City, the largest shopping center in continental Europe, drive footfall over the festive season
Westgate Shopping City (Westgate) is based in Zagreb, Croatia, and it is the largest shopping center in continental Europe, poised to become...
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World-class production facility in the Philippines: an interview with René Hansen
Today we talked to René Hansen, the managing director of MK Themed Attractions, to learn more about our new production facility in the...
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Exploring MK Illumination’s Enchanted Forest at Christmasworld
Today, we’ll be focusing on the Enchanted Forest, a hidden world of fantastic beasts, soaring birds, magical places to rest, and curious...
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Join us on a tour of MK Illumination’s extraordinary festive lighting designs at Christmasworld 2019
We’ll be discussing each of our designs in depth over the next couple of days, so here’s a visual tour to whet your appetite.We start in...
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The great reveal: welcome to The Enchanted Forest
After weeks of teasing you, we’re finally at Christmasworld and for those of you who aren’t able to join us this week, we thought we give...
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Using light and decoration to celebrate Lunar and Chinese New Year
Next week on January 28th, millions of people around the world will start preparation for the Chinese New Year, which in 2019 officially...
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MK Illumination at Christmasworld in years gone by
This year, we’re bringing an extraordinary display to Christmasworld 2019 in Frankfurt am Main, but if you’re not familiar with our...
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Turn Valentine’s Day into a sparkling, love-filled attraction this year with light
It is said that during the reign of Roman Emperor Claudius II it was illegal for young men to marry their beloveds because the Emperor was...
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Eastwood City’s Enchanted Forest of Lights
Earlier this month, Manila’s Eastwood City unveiled it’s 2018 holiday lighting and décor to the delight of excited visitors. This...
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Denmark’s largest 3D light sculpture stag puts a smile on people’s faces in Ringsted
Over the festive season, some people decorate their houses and gardens with strings of lights and light sculptures. Others, like MK...
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London’s Westfield Shopping Center gets its “sparkle on” for Christmas
Every year, Westfield Shopping Center in West London puts on its Christmas sparkle and “wows” visitors with a dazzling display of lights....
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Innsbruck’s “Kaufhaus Tyrol” full of festive flair for the holidays
If you’re in Innsbruck over the holidays – and you might want to be in order to take in the stunning views, atmospheric Christmas markets...
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Experience Stuttgart’s extraordinary festive light show this winter
This year, we’re helping the Germany city of Stuttgart create a lighting spectacle in Schlossplatz that’s sure to take your breath away...
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Festa Luce: European Christmas Light Festival in Japan Opening Soon
For the second year running, Japan’s Wakayama Marina City will be opening its doors and giving visitors a taste of Christmas in Europe at...
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Festive lighting that continues to deliver well into the new year
When we talk about “festive lighting”, most people tend to think that we’re talking purely about Christmas lighting. Sure, Christmas...
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Haldenzauber: a magical, light-filled experience in Hückelhoven for all ages
This month’s city inspiration is Hückelhoven’s “Haldenzauber”, which will transform a popular summer walking space known as...
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Retail Real Estate Inspiration in Canada
The holiday season is vital to shopping centers, malls and retail spaces worldwide, so it’s essential to get your Christmas lighting and...
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Grottos in shopping centers
Incorporate a Christmas grotto into your shopping center’s festive lighting and decorative display this year to excite, delight, and...
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Flagship Store Salvatore Ferragamo
A special brand experienceFestive lighting isn’t simply a nice-to-have. For many businesses, festive lighting is a way of communicating...
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Scaling down: Christmas lighting doesn’t have to be big to be spectacular
Christmas and holiday lighting is a big draw for shopping centers, public places, cities and any retail space, amusement park or leisure...
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Weihnachten im Juli?!
Wenn Sie in der nördlichen Hemisphäre zu Hause sind, haben sie wahrscheinlich gerade den Sommerbeginn gefeiert. Sie genießen hoffentlich...
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A Delightful Fright: Attract Visitors with your Halloween Celebration
Halloween – also known as Hallowe’en (short for All Hallows’ Evening), Allhalloween, All Hallows’ Eve, or All Saints’ Eve – falls...
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It’s time to start planning your festive lighting. Here are some ideas to get you started.
The school holidays are only weeks away, and by the time they’re over, the holiday season will be just around the corner. This is a...
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Lighting up our lives: why light is so important to humans
It’s easy to take light for granted. After all, it surrounds us. Today we’ll explore why light is important to us, and how shopping...
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Turning shopping centers into destinations using experience lighting
A shopping center (or mall, in the USA) is defined by Wikipedia as a place in which: “one or more buildings form a complex of shops...
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Five good reasons to decorate corporate lobbies over the festive season
Last month, we wrote about corporate lobby decoration and lighting, and the value of decorating your lobby for the festive season. We...
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Custom-designed experience lighting that “speaks” to visitors
Nelson Mandela once famously said: “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his...
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Festive lighting and decoration in corporate lobbies
Festive lighting and decoration in corporate lobbiesCorporate “what” decoration? Lobby. For those unfamiliar with the term, a “lobby”...
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A celebration of romantic love
“Be my valentine” is a commonly heard phrase as the February 14th comes around, but did you know that it has a confusion of origins?A...
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