LONDON – The Itsu Japanese restaurant chain, co-owned by the founder of Pret A Manger, was looking for visual enhancement to their Heathrow Terminal 5 outlet with an illuminated sculpture incorporating the restaurant's butterfly motif.
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JOHANNESBURG – Gearhouse South Africa's AV division has stocked up with an order for 100 of Christie Digital's MicroTiles. Operations manager Bhans Sheomangal credited the tiles for ease-of-use, reliability and versatility. The tiles, made with DLP technology, were purchased via Christie South Africa. When all used together as one surface, the 100 MicroTiles cover a 4 by 3 meter area.
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GUANGZHOU, China – Multiform Lighting announced an expansion of its operations here, citing growing sales of their LED lighting systems. The company has moved into a new 24,000-square-foot manufacturing facility staffed by 70 employees.
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LONDON, U.K. and FLORENCE, Italy – Damien Hirst's artwork, For the Love of God, is a platinum cast of a human skull encrusted with 8,601 diamonds. Douglas James, from architectural lighting design company Mindseye, was tasked with lighting the artwork in a way that it had the appearance of floating in thin air.
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ZUBRI, Czech Republic – An Anolis LED lighting design is an integral part of Architect Karel Janća's new interior design for the Duel Sports Bar, a bar and eatery owned by Rene Doricak.
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ROUEN, France – Saint-Aubin-lès-Elbeuf, near Rouen, is home to the Sacré-Coeur de Jésus, a 19th-century church now managed by the city and used as a venue for cultural events, including a recent concert featuring the New Orleans Gospel Quartet.
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ASTANA and ALMATY, Kazakhstan – Light Converse Ltd.'s LightConverse 3D Show Platform was used for the three-hour opening ceremony at the 2011 Asian Winter Games.
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SYDNEY – Clifton Productions supplied more than 200 Robe moving lights for four gala dinners that were part of a corporate gathering produced by Blake Harris of Triumph Leisure Solutions (tls). Some 9,000 delegates from the Amway China Incentive attended the event, held at the Dome at Sydney Showground.
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LAS VEGAS – 4Wall Las Vegas teamed up with Jack Morton Worldwide to provide lighting for the NBC Universal booth at the 2011 CES show. The booth was a focal point of the convention; the company served as the official broadcast partner of the show.
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MIAMI – Proel America announced several changes to their independent sales rep network in the U.S., including the addition of some new firms to their sales team.
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