RTLD offers the diverse talents of Robert Tant, an award-winning lighting designer, who has been contributing to architectural lighting design for twenty years. Robert Tant founded RTLD in 1989.   Projects have ranged from large custom private homes to noteworthy Las Vegas casino resort projects with construction cost in excess of eight hundred  million dollars. Beginning at R.W.S. Associates in 1985 RT worked as a lighting designer on a number of architectural lighting projects.  Those projects included prestigious hotels, corporate headquarters, office buildings,  churches, residences, medical facilities, restaurants, signage, an ocean cruise ship, memorials, special events, custom retrofit design, retail stores, landscape lighting, atrium spaces, airport interior, a historical Biltmore renovation,  water features, bank, library, broadcasting studios, building facades, schools, artwork, and sculptures. A real mix!  During this time he also provided innovative design contributing to the development of a new company, "Engineered Lighting Products". Robert contributed to the original patents attained by ELP, providing research, design and development which is known today as a unique line of interior and exterior  specialty indirect lighting fixtures.