The Knight of Illumination Awards 2014: An Invitation to Lighting and Video Professionals

	The KOI Awards is a pan-industry event, and invites to attend are open to everyone.

Looking forward to the seventh Knight of Illumination Awards (KOI), this year to be held at East London's Troxy on October 5, KOI reports a strong level of nominations in both the Concert Touring and Events and the Television categories.

Concert Touring and Events is judged by independent industry professionals from journalism and rental companies while the Television category, supported by the STLD, will again be judged by television industry professionals. The Theatre category, fully supported by the ALD, continues to be judged by professional critics from the national newspapers.

The main sponsors for this year's KOI have been announced as Hawthorn, MA Lighting, OSRAM, Robert Juliat, and XL Video.

Organizers have further established the independence of the Knight of Illumination Awards by opening a new level of table sponsorship to any company involved in the lighting industry. Companies from control to rental and all lighting manufacturers have been invited to join lighting and video designers, working in the United Kingdom, in a celebration of design. Already confirmed are: Avolites, Chauvet, D3, ETC, Fix8, Gallowglass, Gearsource, Green Hippo, HSL, Pharos, Philips, PRG, Rosco, Stage Electrics, TMB and TSL.

The Knight of Illumination Awards is the only awards process established specifically for lighting, projection, and video content design. Although it receives important financial and logistical support from founders and main sponsors, Clay Paky, the awards themselves remain independent in terms of the judging process. This process continues to be carefully supervised by the UK's leading lighting associations and the KOI committee.

All the shows submitted are judged on merit of design alone. The choice of equipment used by the lighting designer has no influence on the outcome of the awarding process.

The KOI committee, composed of members of the ALD, STLD, category chairpersons, and the awards founders, say they consider the independence of the process to be a fundamental tenet to the value of the recognition made to peers by peers.

The KOI organizers and sponsors are looking forward to welcoming colleagues, previous awardees, and this year's judges and nominees on October 5. The KOI committee will be sending out invitations over the next few weeks. Lighting designers or video professionals, working in the UK, who do not receive an invitation by August 31 please do not hesitate to contact Durham and Jennie Marenghi at mail@durhamld.com as they report this event is for you!