Company founders Ulrich Werning and Frank Bernhard Vetter
The history of DAY & LIGHT is characterised by professional continuity and the passing on of knowledge over decades. It has evolved from a background in professional lighting design.
At its Munich office, DAY & LIGHT handles projects of various sizes. A shared approach characterises the work: Here, everyone has their own mind full of brilliant ideas. These individual perspectives are not a contradiction, but the foundation of collaboration. They complement each other to form a team that bundles different ways of thinking and translates them into consistent, precise solutions.
Osteesparkasse Warnemünde, lighting design by company founder Ulrich Werning in the 1980s
Museum of Contemporary Art, Hamburger Bahnhof (1996) by architect Prof. Josef Paul Kleihues
Munich Airport Centre (1999) by architect Helmut Jahn
In the field of corporate lighting, the firm shapes the spatial identity of brands such as Google and Porsche. Here, lighting is designed as an integral part of the architecture, the brand and the building’s function. At the same time, DAY & LIGHT works within sensitive cultural contexts. The invitation to Japan to illuminate the Manpuku-ji Zen temple, founded in 1661 by Ingen Ryūki Zenji and now a national treasure, exemplifies a practice in which restraint, expertise and an understanding of context are paramount.
In addition to their project work, the DAY & LIGHT group is actively involved in teaching and professional associations (fild). These activities form part of their ongoing engagement with lighting design as a discipline and its further development within professional discourse.
