The Experiential Design Index

Top 8 Lighting Design Firms: Northeast US

Ranked by recency-weighted eligible project count, 2021–2026, firms headquartered in the Northeast US (US Census Bureau regions; Canada listed separately). The 8 highest-scoring firms hold a numbered rank.

Score = 1.0 per eligible project completed this year or last, 0.75 for 2–3 years ago, 0.5 for 4–5 years ago, +0.1 per independently-sourced project (capped at +0.5/firm). Eligible: status: completed projects with year_completed in the trailing 5 years. Ties broken by most recent status_verified date. See About for the full methodology.

Counts reflect the work this index has recorded, not a census of any firm's total output — coverage depth varies by firm — and a position here implies no judgment of design quality.

RankScore FirmHQEligible projects
117.5 Available Light Boston, MA Hosmer Visitor Center (2026), Ruckus! (2026), Tennessee Wings of Liberty Museum (2026), Boone Pickens Legacy Experience (2025), Jean & Ric Edelman Fossil Park & Museum of Rowan University (2025), Indiana Donor Memorial Experience (2025), The Greatest Race (360° theater refresh) (2025), Remembering the Future (Janet Echelman) (2025), National Medal of Honor Museum (2025), Washington-on-the-Brazos Reimagined Visitor Experience (2025), Cornell Lab of Ornithology Visitor Center (2024), La Nube (2024), New Jersey Hall of Fame Entertainment and Learning Center (2024), Wonder of Water (Rotunda) (2024), The USGA Experience and World Golf Hall of Fame (2024), The National WWII Museum — Road to Victory Master Plan (2023), Ray and Dagmar Dolby Hall of American Culture — Entertainment Nation (2022), Academy Museum of Motion Pictures (2021), How Do You See the World? / Publishing House Experience (2021), Davis Bayou Visitor Center Exhibits (2021), National Museum of African American Music (2021)
212.2 Tillotson Design Associates New York, NY Princeton University Art Museum (2025), West Conservatory (2024), Buttenwieser Hall (2023), High Line – Moynihan Connector (2023), Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty (2023), NYPL Visitor Center (2023), Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC) (2023), Powerhouse Arts — Brand Identity and Wayfinding (2023), Bob Dylan Center (2022), Bronx Children's Museum (2022), Kravis Hall and David Geffen Hall (2022), Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity (2022), MIT Museum (2022), Pier 57 Public Spaces (Sky Park, Food Hall, Chelsea View Theater) (2022), Brockman Hall for Opera (2022), Adams Street Library (2021), Building Renovation (2021), The Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library's Treasures (2021), Winter Park Library & Events Center (2021)
39.1 Fisher Marantz Stone New York, NY Obama Presidential Center Museum (2026), Doris Duke Theatre (2025), Terminal Modernization Program (2025), New Museum Building (2025), Field Arts & Events Hall (2024), National World War I Memorial and Pershing Park (2024), Palace Theatre Restoration (TSX Broadway) (2024), David Geffen Hall Renovation (2022), David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center Orangerie (2022), Garden Pavilion / Welcome Center (2022), Academy Museum of Motion Pictures (2021), Site and Bridge Lighting (2021)
46.5 Technical Artistry New York, NY Freedom Rides Museum — 2025 Refresh (2025), In This Place (2025), National WWI Museum and Memorial Technology Refresh and Encounters (2025), Core Exhibit Renovation (2024), Big Button Sculpture (2023), International African American Museum (2023), This Is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture (2023)
55.5 Anita Jorgensen Lighting Design New York, NY Renovation and Enhancement Project (2025), Collecting Memories: Treasures from the Library of Congress (2024), Renovation and New Additions (2024), The Creation and the Expulsion from Paradise Display (2022), Silver Vault Gallery (2022), Frick Madison (2021), Titian: Women, Myth & Power (2021), Russel & Mary Wright Design Gallery (2021)
63.6 Arup New York, NY Michael C. Rockefeller Wing (2025), V&A East Storehouse (2025), Naala Badu (Sydney Modern Project) (2022), Hong Kong Palace Museum (2022), M+ (2021)
73.3 Renfro Design Group New York, NY Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation (2023), 81st Street Studio (2023), Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (2022), Stanley Museum of Art (2022), Allison and Roberto Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals (2021)
82.9 L'Observatoire International New York, NY Fondation Cartier — New Building (2025), Renovation and Enhancement Project (2025), Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem (2023)