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Summer Lighting Mentorship — Self-Guided

A six-week self-paced journey from "I know the tools" to "I know what I want to say with them." Process, voice, collaboration, and a clear path to make your next design yours.

7 sections23 lessons
The Self-Guided track of the Designing Stories Summer Mentorship is six weeks of structured prompts, case studies, and design challenges — built to help lighting designers move from technical competence to creative clarity. You'll work through seven modules covering creative voice, concept-to-design translation, emotional design with space / light / shape, collaboration and leadership, and a final personal design pitch. Work at your own pace. Return to any lesson as often as you need.

What’s inside

01

Welcome

Start here — orient yourself, meet the space, and tell us your story.

  • IntroFree
  • Overview of Course & Timeline
  • Designing Stories Community
  • Tell Us Your Story
02

Week 1: Your Creative Voice

Uncover the "why" behind your work. Define visual storytelling in your own terms and identify your creative lens.

  • What is Visual Storytelling?
  • Download: Creative Identity Worksheet
  • Challenge: Your Personal Lens
03

Week 2: From Concept to Vision

Move from script to design by listening for emotional truth, theme, and metaphor — then sketching your response.

  • Story → Design
  • Mini Project: Design Response
  • Mini Project: Submit & Feedback
  • Submissions Gallery
  • A Quick Note on Process
04

Week 3: Design with Emotion

Space, light, and shape as emotional languages. Sculpt feeling, not just scenes.

  • Space, Light and Shape
  • Exercise: Scene Breakdown
  • Design Challenge: Light a Moment
05

Week 4: Collaboration + Leadership

Lead with empathy and clarity. Translate vision into trust, so the team can do its best work with you.

  • Leading as a Designer
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Community Prompt: Collaboration Challenge
06

Week 5: Final Project Work Week

Develop and refine your final design pitch with guided checkpoints.

  • Guided Work Session: Coaching Checkpoints
  • Submit Your Design Pitch
07

Week 6: Final Presentations + Growth Plan

Share your work. Map the next twelve months. Leave with an action plan for your design practice.

  • Live Share Session
  • What's Next? Mapping the Next Twelve Months
  • Where are you taking your story next?

One lesson is free to watch — Intro. Create an account to open it.

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