Mr. Ritesh Shah is the founder and principal architectural lighting designer at Lux Light Designs, a leading lighting design consultancy in Mumbai. With over 18 years of industry experience, he specializes in creating innovative and energy-efficient lighting design solutions across interior and exterior architecture, façade lighting, landscape lighting, sports arenas, and utility spaces. His work blends aesthetics with technical precision, delivering results tailored to client vision and functionality. Mr. Shah holds an F-MBA from NMIMS, Mumbai, and a Bachelor of Commerce from Mumbai University, along with several other professional certifications.
As an internationally recognized lighting expert, he is associated with IALD (International Association of Lighting Designers – USA), IES (Illuminating Engineering Society – USA), and LiDAI (Lighting Designers Association of India).
His award-winning lighting projects have been featured in renowned design magazines, industry journals, and national newspapers. Ritesh has also contributed to the field through guest lectures, talk shows, and workshops, mentoring aspiring lighting designers across India and globally.
His lighting design philosophy combines creative vision with practical experience and technical excellence. He believes that great lighting design enhances architectural beauty while being energy-efficient and sustainable.
Passionate about custom lighting design, he approaches each project with a fresh perspective—bringing unique concepts and context-specific creativity to the forefront.
He and his team are known for their commitment to excellence, detail-oriented planning, and collaborative work ethic. From conceptualization to execution, Lux Light Designs ensures seamless project delivery. The firm values innovative materials, collective ideation with design teams, and actively involves clients to align with their lifestyle and vision.
Our core philosophy is to believe that the best design solutions are achieved through effective teamwork and communications. Our team uses mock-ups, renderings, and three- dimensional computer visualizations to illustrate lighting design concepts for clients. A comprehensive suite of IT skills including AutoCAD, Photoshop; Adobe Creative Suite; etc are used to represent spaces and lighting effects, photometric calculations and energy management analysis.
Softness and Light Glare are the technical details which need expert supervision. Harsh lighting which is not soft on your eyes or keeps giving constant Light Glares can affects your eyesight. Softness of light can make or break the mood of your scene.
Intensity or amount of brightness of light has a direct impact on the final aesthetical value of the area illuminated. Intensity in the house will be different from the intensity of light required for a commercial offices or a retail store. It has a huge effect on one’s mood and productivity.
Direction and placement of lights is a vital aspect in any architectural design. This is one of the decisive factors in selecting the shape and size of the luminaire and with a lasting effect on the final output and perseverance.
This very important element of lighting it is based upon the color temperature of light, or how warm or cool it is. Blue-r tones give feeling of sadness and low levels of energy, while yellow tones typically make feel more happy and warm. Contrasting tones can be even used to even further emit emotion. Colour changing effects can be smoothing to eyes.