Dean Skira

Dean Skira (born 20 October 1962) is a Croatian lighting designer. Skira founded his own lighting design practice in 1990 in New York City, USA. He lives and works in Pula, Croatia.
In 1986 Skira studied lighting and interior design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. Since 1995 he and his team of designers and engineers have based their work in Croatia.
Skira is a member of IES The Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, New York section. He is also affiliated with the Croatian Designers Society and Croatian Lighting Association.
One of Skira's best known projects is the "Cranes", in Pula, Croatia, which changed the shipping cranes at the Uljanik Shipyard into a moving lighted art installation.

Notable projects

• Postojna Cave, Postojna, Slovenia
• Biennale Arte, Italian, pavilion, Venice
• Parco della Luna, Recanati, Italy
• Design hotel Lone, Rovinj, Croatia
• Park Eden, Rovinj, Croatia
• Novamed polyclinic, Zagreb, Croatia
• Rident polyclinic, Poreč, Croatia
• Novi Spa & Resort, Novi Vinodolski, Croatia
• Hotel Argentina, Dubrovnik, Croatia
• Arena(lighting control system), Zagreb, Croatia
• Four Seasons Hotel, Baku, Azerbaijan
• Hotel Kempinski, Savudrija, Croatia
• Memorial Centre Dražen Petrović, Zagreb, Croatia
• Avenue Mall, Zagreb, Croatia
• Town of Buzet, Croatia
• Cranes Pula, Croatia

• Novamed Polyclinic by Skira lighting design | Enlighter Magazine
• CPD 6 2014: Sustainable lighting | Features | Building Design
• "Snapshot" Mondo*Arc, Oct/Nov2012 Issue 69
• Hawkins, Si. "Lighting the Way". Let's Go with Rynair.
• "Croatian designer creates giant light show by illuminating shipyard cranes. De Zeen.

Awards and recognitions

• "Delta of Gold" Prize at the 2014 Festival of Art and Design.
• Codega Prize for best LED installation
• Illumni Infinity award (2013)
• iF product design award (2013)
• 29th IALD Special citation Award (2012)
• LDA Winner External Luminaire (2012)
• The ARC Show Innovation Award (2012)
• IESNA Award of Merit (2009)
• International prize Dedalo Minosse for Commissioning a Building (2007-2008)
• Lutron most Unusual Installation in Europe (2006)
• IESNA Award of Merit (2002)

• ""Prizes Delta 2014: the light Trick, of the designer Dean Skira for iGuzzini, wins the Delta of Gold". ICANDELA.
• "Designer Dean Skira wins inaugural Codega Prize". MondoArc, 25 October 2013
• Broken Light wins IALD Radiance Award | News | Lighting
• 29th IALD Awards: Daglicht & Vorm Win Radiance | lighting.com

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