STEPHEN BLACKMAN is President and Chief Design Officer of Blackjack Lighting. With more than 30 years of experience and a vast portfolio of lighting designs sold by America’s largest lighting manufacturers, Blackman is a renowned designer and industry-leading thinker whose ideas have shaped and influenced how lighting fixtures look and perform both here in North America and abroad.

Over the years, thousands of Blackman-designed lighting fixtures have been sold by his lighting manufacturer clients for use in homes, hotels, health care facilities, offices and other commercial spaces. Among his most iconic designs is the Elf sconce produced and sold by Illuminating Experiences. Many of his designs have won important awards, including 15 Lighting For Tomorrow Awards presented by the American Lighting Assn., Underwriters Laboratories and the Consortium For Energy Efficiency.