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About Pastelux
A reference site for architectural lighting design, with a digest of the industry refreshed every morning.
Two layers
The site separates what changes daily from what does not. Learn, Standards, Tools and the Glossary are the fixed layer — written by hand and revised when the discipline moves. Today, the Archive and Events are the moving layer, assembled by a scheduled job.
How the daily digest works
A GitHub Action runs each morning. It reads the RSS feeds listed below, drops anything already published in the previous fortnight, filters for professional relevance, writes a short original summary of each remaining item, tags it, and commits the result as a JSON file. The site then rebuilds and deploys.
Only the headline, publisher, link and a summary written here are stored. Source article text is never copied into this repository, and every item links back to its publisher. If the summariser is unavailable the job still publishes, marked as headlines-only, rather than failing.
Sources
- arc — The leading international magazine for lighting in architecture (formerly mondo*arc). Projects, interviews, industry news.
- LightNOW — Follows IES and North American standards activity more closely than anyone else.
- A1 Lighting — UK trade coverage, including a dedicated architectural lighting section.
- ArchDaily — ArchDaily's lighting project category only, not the general firehose.
- Dezeen — General design and architecture. Filtered hard for lighting relevance.
Currently unavailable
- darc — Feed has not published since December 2025. Re-enable if it starts moving again — the magazine itself is still active.
- Lighting Design Alliance — Feed has not published since July 2025. Kept here because the archive is worth reading, but it contributes nothing to a daily digest.
- LEDs Magazine — Returns HTTP 403 to automated clients. Worth retrying periodically — the content is excellent.
- LED professional — No working RSS endpoint found at the usual paths (404). Check the site for a current feed URL.
On the numbers
Every figure on this site is a working reference, not a certification. Standards are copyrighted documents that must be purchased, editions differ, and the version your contract calls up is often not the newest one. Use the criteria table to orient yourself quickly, then verify against the purchased standard before anything leaves your office.
Adding to it
- An article — add an
.mdxfile tosrc/content/learn/ - A glossary term — add an object to
src/content/glossary.json - A criteria row — add an object to
src/content/criteria.json - An event — add an object to
src/content/events.json - A news source — add a feed to
src/data/feeds.json
Commit to main and the site rebuilds itself. All of these files can be edited
directly in GitHub's web editor — no local setup needed.
Built with
Astro, Tailwind CSS and Pagefind, deployed as a static site on GitHub Pages. No database, no server, no analytics, no cookies. Bookmarks live in your browser's local storage and are never transmitted anywhere.