Janet Cooke Hansen is President and Chief Fashion Engineer of Enlighted Designs, Inc. She founded the business to create her own "dream job" as a light-up clothing designer.

Janet's eclectic designs combine her lifelong interests of fashion, art, and technology. She learned to sew at age 7, and installed miniature lights in her own dollhouse. Over the years, her costume-making hobby began to incorporate electronics, with illuminating results.

With more than ten years of experience in this highly specialized field, Janet is well known as a pioneer and innovator, and is arguably the most prolific lighted clothing designer in the world. She has created thousands of unique pieces of lighted clothing in her studio; several hundred examples are documented in the online gallery on this site.

Janet creates lighted apparel for a variety of international clients, including professional entertainers in the music industry, as well as for applications in art, theater, dance, television, film, and advertising.

Do you need to be a rocket scientist to design clothes like this? Probably not, but it doesn't hurt, either. If you're interested in details about Janet's extensive formal training in engineering, you can look here.

Her other artistic interests also exhibit a high-tech edge. Janet paints in an abstract geometric style, and creates illuminated wall panels and sculptures, in addition to the lighted clothing described on this site.

Janet is a Pisces, and has lived in the San Diego area since 1979.

The yin-yang logo symbolizes the merging of opposing forces into a balanced whole. We strive towards this type of balance with our designs, which combine a variety of "opposites": fun and function, right brain and left brain, art and technology, fashion and engineering, and so on.

We've replaced the traditional dots with rectangles that are suggestive of an electrical outlet. This also makes it look more like the letter e, for enlighted.

E-mail: info@enlighted.com

Phone: 760.505.3343 (US Pacific Time Zone, 9am-6pm, email preferred during other hours)
Fax: 208.723.7139

Mailing address: (not recommended for packages, please contact us if you are mailing something)
Enlighted Designs Inc.
PO Box 231548
Encinitas CA 92023-1548

Physical address: Please call or e-mail first if you would like to make an appointment to visit our Encinitas studio, if you are sending clothes to be modified, or if you need a street address for FedEx, UPS, or DHL shipments.

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