Den psykiska ohälsan är idag en av våra vanligaste folksjukdomar och utskrifterna av antidepressiva läkemedel är på en rekordhög nivå i landet. Den medicinering som i  dagsläget finns för med sig många biverkningar, vilket medför att steget för att söka hjälp kan kännas stort. Genom att använda sig av ljusterapi kan man minska mängden medicinering, lindra och förebygga psykisk ohälsa. Denna rapport syftar till att lyfta frågan om psykisk ohälsa utifrån frågeställningen Hur kan man med hjälp av design tillhandahålla möjlighet till ljusterapi för personligt bruk? Rapporten visar tankeprocess och arbetsgång från idé till färdig produkt med resultat i en ljusterapilampa ämnad för hemmabruk och syftar att underlätta psykiskt välmående genom att på ett naturligt sätt implementera ljusterapi i sin vardag. / Today, mental illness is one of our most common folk diseases, with the withdrawals of antidepressants reaching record high levels within the country. Todays medication brings a lot of side effects, resulting in the act of reaching out for help feeling very big. By using light therapy the amount of medication can be reduced, mental illness can be eased and prevented.  This report aims to enlighten the subject of mental illness from the problem statement: How might we, by design, provide light therapy for personal use? The report displays the process and workflow from idea to finished product with the outcome in a light therapy lamp intended for home use. The aim of the product is to facilitate mental wellbeing by implementing light therapy in everyday life in a natural way.

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A store's appearance and atmosphere impacts the customer's experience, feelings andwillingness to buy (Solomon et al. 2013). The lighting in the store has a great impacton the impressions that the customer gets and has the opportunity to convey differentemotions (Schielke & Leudesdorff, 2015). Should the store be perceived as exclusiveor should it be experienced as a low budget store? What is the difference between anexclusive store and a low budget store? The purpose of this study is to highlightdifferences in the lighting in exclusive clothing stores compared to the lighting in lowbudget stores. Using collected data from interviews and observations, the study willpresent what the design process looks like for a lighting designer who plans the lightingin a clothing store. It will also present how the lighting in an exclusive clothing storediffers aesthetically from the lighting in a low budget clothing store. The study will alsoshed light on how the respondents believe that the store lighting of the future will looklike. The interviewees were lighting designers with experience in store lighting.The results of the study show that the design process of all respondents is similar anddoes not differ depending on whether it is an exclusive clothing store or a low budgetclothing store. Instead, it is the amount of time and care that increases the moreexclusive the store is. Material costs and budgets also tend to be higher for exclusivestores. With the help of the answers from the interviews, a model could be developedthat demonstrates the steps taken during the design process. The observations togetherwith the interviews show that there is an aesthetic difference between exclusive clothingstores and low budget stores. What stands out is how carefully the lighting is planned,the choice of luminaires and how they adapted the lighting to the design of the room.The study provides an insight into how experienced lighting designers work with retaillighting, what their design process looks like and what they think the retail lighting ofthe future will look like. The results of the study can serve as a template for others inthe lighting industry and lighting enthusiasts. It gives an idea of what steps and pointsare important to consider when planning the lighting in a store

This treatise analysis what functions light has in theater. It was inspired by Rosalinda Kraussessay Sculpture in the Expanded Field but builds mostly on the following three booksLinda Essig Lighting and the design idea (2nd ed), Nigel H. Morgan Stage lighting fortheater designers and Francis Reid The stage lighting handbook (6th ed). It discovers nineunique functions of light (performance style, dramatic style, image,illumination, 3Dspace, 3D form, selectivity, environment, atmosphere) and develops a graphical mappingof them based on a mapping by Reid. The functions performance style, dramatic style,image are superior the others. Some light functions are more closely related than othersand the different functions can easily be misunderstood.The functions performance style and dramatic style (or just style) are especially difficultto understand and map out. Environment and atmosphere are two functions that is inopposition to one another and it would be interesting to make an expansion around theseset of terms by using Krauss theories.

We have a tendency to want to sort our surroundings, we set things against each other, value them and place them in a hierarchical order.Where something goes up, something else goes down.We attribute different properties to materials, techniques and spaces and load them with values. Our perception of the environment is based on a collective construction. Textiles are sorted among the home, women and decoration while glass is associated with exclusivity, traditional masculine craftsmanship and architecture.Where something goes up, something else goes down.Textile can be defined as material, like fiber, or as technique, like weaving, knitting, sewing. Threads that together form a composition by running over and under each other.Where something goes up, something else goes downCan I disrupt the hierarchical order between textile and glass by merging them? Because, I would like to change our view of how we can use textiles in a spatial context.My experience is that textiles in spatial and architectural contexts are often something added afterwards to adjust things that the building process has not considered. But other materials such as glass have an obvious position as part of the definition of space.

The role of the American theatrical lighting designer is to be a visual collaborator on the design team. While other designers can produce elements that the rest of the team can hold or listen to such as a model of the set by the set designer or a sound effect from the sound designer, the lighting designer must rely on his or her ability to communicate his or her ideas. Visual lighting elements are complex ideas and must be clearly stated and planned for if the production is to be cohesive. This thesis presents the goals to communicate verbally, collaborate, and implement lighting ideas effectively with the design team of Refugee, written by Milan Dragicevich, as well as to maintain an overall visually pleasing and immersive experience for the audience.