Faraz Izhar

Faraz is currently employed with the multidisciplinary consultancy AE7 as their Lead Lighting Designer, Faraz has delivered diverse and innovative lighting projects, some of which have won prestigious lighting awards regionally/internationally. Ranging from hospitality to mixed use, heritage to landscapes, his extensive, over 15 years of experience covers a wide range of project typologies. 

Faraz aims to produce designs which are innovative, sustainable, smart, and future-ready; designs which focus on lighting quality rather than quantity; designs which effortlessly communicate synergy between all the components of a project. He strives towards minimizing the impact of light pollution without compromising on the general lit effect and quality in his projects.

Faraz is passionate about spreading awareness about qualitative aspects of lighting when he gets a chance – whether it’s speaking at the seminars, webinars, or writing articles for various local and international lighting publications, getting actively involved in local lighting activities, or simply taking aid of the right channels on social media to spread the word. In this era of global collaboration, all these activities help him collaborate with distinguished lighting experts around the globe and facilitate a new era of unprecedented creativity. Faraz keeps himself well-informed on the changing and evolving trends/developments in the Lighting Industry.