Jean Sundin's Email & Phone

Jean Sundin is a founder and principal of Office for Visual Interaction, Inc. Ms. Sundin's detailed knowledge and expertise in the field of lighting has been developed over more than 20 years of work in the field. Originally trained in interior design, Ms. Sundin has a comprehensive understanding of how lighting can transform spaces, and the experience to make these effects a reality. Ms. Sundin's creativity is paired with strong abilities to communicate and develop ideas in dialogue with client groups, tailored to each project's cultural context and design language. Ensuring a smooth transition from design concept to reality, Ms. Sundin pioneered OVI's cost-tracking procedure, which fends against inflated costs and protects the project's design integrity. Ms. Sundin is the Director for Education for the Professional Lighting Designers' Association (PLDA), and is the chairperson for the PLDA's Architectural Lighting Fundamentals? committee, an initiative to establish benchmarks of knowledge for lighting education internationally. A professional member of the International Association of Lighting Designers, Ms. Sundin co-authored the organization's Guidelines for Specification Integrity,? used by lighting designers worldwide. She is a professional member, and former board member, of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America and is on the steering committee of the Lighting Industry Resource Council. A member of the U.S. Green Building Council, Ms. Sundin recently served as a panelist on an expert forum on energy efficient lighting. Ms. Sundin has lectured worldwide on her firm's work, as well as on specification integrity and cost-tracking methods for lighting design. She has led lighting design workshops and lectured widely at professional lighting congresses and design schools around the globe. Ms. Sundin taught lighting courses for the Illuminating Engineering Society and was appointed a distinguished faculty member at Parsons School of Design in New York City. Her articles on lighting design have appeared in publications including Professional Lighting Design Magazine, A/L Magazine, and Buildings Magazine.