Kera Lagios Nominated to Receive Global 40under40 Award

Integral Group are delighted to announce Associate Principal, Kera Lagios (Oakland) has been nominated to receive a 40under40 award at the 2018 Lighting Design Awards. A category that celebrates a new generation of talent, Kera will be joining the other young lighting designers chosen as ambassadors for their industry, all who have portrayed an outstanding contribution in raising the bar on the creativity and quality of projects across the world.

Kera was selected to be one of the Global 40under40 after being crowned regionally in the 40under40 North America 2018, which received an overwhelming response from the profession with over 120 young professionals from across the USA, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean nominated. Globally the 18 women and 22 men – selected from over 350 applications worldwide – hail from 12 different countries, including the UAE, Turkey, India, China, Brazil, the US, Germany, Italy, Singapore and Sweden.

Kera comes from an architecture, daylighting and lighting design background before joining Elementa’s growing Lighting Design Studio in 2015. Kera has worked on some of the firms showcase projects including Integrated Genomics Lab at LBNL; Camp Southern Ground and the NIAC Offices. She specialises in the integration of light, space and technology.

‘The achievements of these outstanding young people – be they creative, academic or philanthropic – are phenomenal and the selection panel were incredibly impressed,’ said Ray Molony, chairman of the 40under40 international selection panel. ‘This year’s cohort are truly outstanding and it is set to make a huge contribution. This industry is in safe hands for the future’.

The Lighting Design Awards take place on Thursday 3rd May at London’s Hilton Park Lane Hotel. For more information and to register a place at the event, click here; http://awards.lighting.co.uk/