Suzan
Tillotson
Suzan founded Tillotson Design Associates with twenty-three years of lighting design experience. She has won over one hundred lighting design awards for her work, including the 2018 International Dark Sky Association Lighting Design and Technology Award and 2017 Lighting Designer of the Year Award at the Lighting Design Awards.
Suzan has also been featured in numerous national and international publications. She is a former member of the IALD Board of Directors, a former IALD NYC Regional Coordinator, and was president of the IES Southwest Louisiana Section.
She has also served as an awards judge for the New York IES Lumens and the IALD. Suzan has taught the New York IES Introductory Lighting Course, and numerous lighting design and rendering workshops. She has guest lectured on lighting design at Louisiana State University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, University of Arkansas, Cornell University, McGill University, and Dalhousie University. She also taught lighting to graduate-level architecture students at Princeton University.
Suzan was the keynote speaker for the 2018 Lighting Magazine 40 under 40 North American Awards and a presenter at the 2017 Dark Sky Association Annual Meeting and the 2017 Lightspace Conference in LA. Suzan graduated with a Bachelor of Interior Design from Louisiana State University where, in 2012, she gave the commencement speech and was the recipient of the 2012 Distinguished Alumni Award.
Suzan has directed all phases of design for a wide variety of award-winning domestic and overseas interior and exterior lighting projects including the new Bloomberg European Headquarters and London Mithraeum in London, UK; the Dee and Charles Theater in Dallas, TX; the R/GA Offices; Lincoln Center North Plaza and South Campus; One Vanderbilt Tower; Perelman Center at WTC; and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, NY