Mark Major is a British lighting designer and

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. He is the co-founder of Speirs Major, a lighting design studio.

Career

Major is an architect by training. Having previously worked with lighting designer Jonathan Speirs at Lighting Design Partnership in Edinburgh, the pair established their own lighting design studio Speirs and Major Associates in 1993. In 2010, the studio was rebranded Speirs + Major, and in 2020 as Speirs Major. Major was Lighting Design Advisor to the

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for the London Olympic and Paralympic Games 2012. He became Master for the Faculty for the

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in November 2019. Major's notable lighting projects include the Millennium Dome, Greenwich, London, UK (1999), Terminal 5, Heathrow, London, UK (2008),

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, Beijing, China (2008), and the interior of

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, London, UK (2006). He is active in the field of

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and light masterplanning and produced the Lighting Vision for the

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, UK in 2018.

Awards and honours

In 2012, Major was named a Royal Designer for Industry for his "innovative use of light to create public space". He received the 'Outstanding Lifetime Contribution to Design' award at the FX Awards in 2015. Major is a Fellow of the International Association of Lighting Designers.

References

External links

Speirs Major
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