Marcel Dion Lighting Design

What Marcel Dion Lighting Design does

Marcel Dion Lighting Design is a Toronto-based professional lighting design consultancy established in 2010 by founder and Principal Lighting Designer Marcel Dion. The firm provides end-to-end lighting design services across interior, exterior, commercial, and residential applications, delivering work from schematic design through construction documentation. Its technology stack centers on industry-standard lighting calculation and visualization tools — AGI32 for photometry analysis and Dialux for lighting studies and radiosity renderings — supplemented by hand sketches, CAD drawings, lighting layouts, and PDF markups used to coordinate with architectural teams and electrical engineers.

The consultancy serves enterprise and institutional clients through direct professional engagement, collaborating with architects, interior designers, and landscape architects across all project phases. Its disclosed project portfolio spans luxury retail (Mackage at Toronto Eaton Centre, Mooseknuckles at Yorkdale, Indigo at Sherway Gardens, Hopson Grace), real estate and corporate offices (Cadillac Fairview, Brookfield Place lobbies and Allen Lambert Galleria, Slack, Bell, Fisher & Paykel Experience Centre), hospitality and civic venues (Halifax Convention Centre, TIFF Bell Lightbox, City of Toronto parks), education (Thompson Rivers University), heritage adaptive reuse (Waterworks at 505 Richmond Street West), international department stores (The Hyundai in Seoul and Bucheon, South Korea), and luxury marine (Damen Yachting's Entourage). The firm is IALD-aligned and the founder holds CLD and LEED AP credentials; the practice has accumulated multiple IES Awards of Merit and Section Awards from 2012 through 2025.

Marcel Dion Lighting Design Inc. operates as a privately held, founder-owned Canadian corporation with no disclosed institutional capital, subsidiaries, parent companies, or M&A activity. Revenue is project-based professional services fees that are not publicly disclosed, and pricing is not transparent. The company is positioned as a boutique consultancy whose differentiation rests on the founder's credentials and creative track record, sustained industry recognition, and a repeat-collaboration network with leading Canadian and international interior design firms such as Burdifilek, IN8 Design, and Diamond Schmitt Architects.

Name

Marcel Dion Lighting Design

Legal name

Marcel Dion Lighting Design Inc.

Website

https://marceldion.ca

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Marcel Dion Lighting Design is a Toronto-based boutique lighting design consultancy, founded in 2010, providing interior and exterior lighting design services to enterprise clients across commercial, retail, hospitality, civic, heritage, and international projects.

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Product category

Architectural Lighting Design Services

NAICS

Interior Design Services (54141)

akta.pro primary industry

Lighting Design Services (BPAHAKAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Interior Design Services (BPAHAKAB)

Keywords

• Lighting design services
• Architectural lighting design
• Interior lighting design
• Exterior lighting design
• Lighting consultancy

Headquarters

HQ city

Toronto

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Lighting Design Services: Professional lighting design consulting services for interior, exterior, commercial, and residential projects, from schematic design through construction documentation.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Marcel Dion Lighting Design provides professional lighting design consultancy services spanning interior and exterior applications for commercial, residential, hospitality, retail, entertainment, landscape, and structural projects. The firm delivers lighting design from schematic design through construction documentation, using AGI32 and Dialux for photometric analysis and lighting studies, and collaborates directly with architects, interior designers, and electrical engineers to integrate lighting with architectural intent.

Product overview

Marcel Dion Lighting Design is a professional lighting design consultancy, not a software or product company. The company provides comprehensive lighting design services as its sole offering — from interior to exterior, commercial to residential, and from schematic design to construction. Their portfolio encompasses diverse project types including retail, public lobbies, lounges, ballrooms, pre-function spaces, restaurants, spas, conference venues, specialty spaces, and exterior landscape and building facades. The firm utilizes industry-standard lighting software (AGI32 and Dialux) for photometric analysis and lighting studies. Notable project categories include yacht lighting design, department stores, convention centers, public parks, heritage buildings, shopping centers, corporate offices, and art installations. The company operates as a single unified service offering under the Marcel Dion Lighting Design Inc. brand.

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Products and services

• Lighting Design Services Comprehensive professional lighting design consultancy covering interior and exterior applications for commercial, residential, hospitality, retail, entertainment, landscape, and structural projects. Delivered from schematic design through construction documentation using AGI32 and Dialux photometric tools, with direct collaboration alongside architects, interior designers, landscape architects, and electrical engineers.

Named customers27 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Feature2 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Focus Lighting: New York-based architectural lighting design firm specializing in entertainment, hospitality, retail, and exhibit environments including museums and themed projects. Comparable to Marcel Dion in overlapping specialty areas (exhibit, hospitality, retail) and award-driven positioning.
• Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design: Major US architectural lighting design practice with offices in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles serving commercial, hospitality, institutional, and public-realm projects. Comparable to Marcel Dion in service offering and enterprise-grade project portfolio, though at significantly larger scale.
• Tillotson Design Associates: Award-winning New York-based architectural lighting design firm recognized for high-profile cultural, commercial, hospitality, and retail projects including IES Awards of Merit. Directly comparable to Marcel Dion in specialty, project caliber, and award-driven positioning.
• Renfro Design Group: New York-based lighting design firm focused on interior architectural lighting for retail, hospitality, residential, and commercial environments. Comparable to Marcel Dion in project types, client base of architects and interior designers, and award-recognized portfolio.
• Available Light: US-based architectural lighting design firm delivering lighting design for cultural, commercial, hospitality, and higher education projects. Comparable to Marcel Dion in specialty, project scale, and reliance on collaboration with architecture and interior design teams.
• Mulvey & Banani Lighting: Long-established Toronto-based lighting design consultancy offering interior and exterior lighting design services across commercial, institutional, retail, and public-realm projects in Canada. Directly comparable to Marcel Dion Lighting Design in geography, service scope, and target client base of architects and developers.
• dpa lighting consultants: Canadian lighting design consultancy providing architectural lighting design for retail, hospitality, commercial, and institutional environments. Comparable to Marcel Dion in offering and geographic focus, and competes for the same Toronto architecture firm clients.
• Kugler Ning Lighting Design: International lighting design consultancy with offices in the US and abroad delivering interior and exterior architectural lighting for commercial, cultural, hospitality, and urban projects. Comparable to Marcel Dion in service breadth and pursuit of complex, design-led projects.
• Lightheaded Lighting Design: Toronto-based boutique lighting design practice delivering architectural lighting design for commercial, hospitality, retail, and residential projects. Comparable to Marcel Dion as a similarly sized Canadian specialist consultancy serving architect and interior designer-led projects.

Broad incumbents

• Arup Lighting: Lighting design practice within Arup, a global engineering and design consultancy. Overlaps with Marcel Dion on architectural lighting projects but operates as part of a much larger multi-disciplinary firm, competing for complex institutional and commercial work where full engineering integration matters.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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