About More Than Light

We design moments, not just lighting.

A studio shaping ideas that linger long after the bulb dims — warm, intentional, cinematic in feeling.

About

It started with one stubborn question

Our founder spent years working on film sets and gallery installs, watching beautiful lighting fade into memory the second a project wrapped. He started More Than Light in 2017 to chase a different outcome — atmosphere with a point of view. Today we partner with brands, venues, and storytellers to build luminous identities that outlast the moment.

Read the founding letter →

Our Values

Warm by intention

We choose color temperatures and textures that make people feel held, not inspected. Light should comfort before it performs.

Story first

Every fixture, every beam is a sentence in a longer narrative. We design the paragraph, not just the punctuation.

Quiet craft

No spectacle for its own sake. Our best work disappears into the room, then stays with you afterward.

By The Numbers

180+
Spaces shaped
7yrs
Of practice
23
Hands on deck
4
Cities lit
About

The way we work, in three acts

Discover — we walk your space, read the architecture, listen for the story already trying to surface. Design — moodboards, photometric studies, and material samples become a plan you can feel before fabrication. Dwell — installation, calibration, and a quiet follow-up six months later to tune the result to real life.

We don't hand over a binder and disappear. We stay until the light feels like it has always belonged there.

See our process →
Light is the slowest special effect — it changes how a room remembers itself, and how the people inside it remember the night.
Eliza MarenFounder & Creative Director

Want to see what your space could feel like?

We take on a handful of projects each season. Tell us the room, the moment, the feeling you want to leave behind.

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