All lighting designers love challenges and none more so than Crt Birsa from design studio Blackout, who fitted nearly 400 lighting fixtures into a 20 x 20 meter space in Studio 1 at the Slovenian National television station in Ljubljana. Read how Birsa relied on the support of Robe for this production.
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When LD Jared Sayeg started planning the design for ‘Topdog/Underdog’ for the Pasadena Playhouse, he knew he needed fixtures that “could truly accommodate both slow smooth fades and sharp shuttering as well as big strokes of light that engulf the playing space.” He turned to GLP impression X5 IP Bars for his solution.
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Lighting Designed Luis Torres of HiLite Designs relied on a range of CHAUVET Professional fixtures for his dynamic design on the Royal Ball Room Stage at the Decadence Festival, which took place in Avondale, AZ. He worked closely with the teams at Relentless Beats and Kelco, which handled production management duties.
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More than one million visitors to the Seymour Marine Discovery Center have been greeted by the familiar sight of Ms. Blue, the largest outdoor blue whale skeleton on display in the U.S. When the bones began deteriorating, the Center sought ways to preserve Ms. Blue for future generations using sustainable methods. That led to a unique solution from an elite Hollywood VFX studio. Read more to learn about this technology.
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Danbury Global Ltd. announced a Timed Online Auction of professional-grade live event production equipment. The auction opens on Thursday, May 8 at 10 a.m. in Belleville, MI. The auction offers buyers a rare opportunity to acquire high-performance gear from a trusted and active production company.
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The 2025 edition of the Event Production Directory is now online. There are thousands of companies supporting live entertainment that are categorized by company specialty including lighting, sound, staging, video/projection, pyro, lasers, trucking, buses/coaches – and more than a dozen other show production categories.
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The sci-fi adventure ‘The Electric State’, directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, premiered on Netflix in March, with state-of-the-art lighting technology from Elation playing a key behind-the-scenes role. Learn how Lighting Console Programmer Eric “TK” Androvich integrated Elation moving heads to help shape the film’s distinctive visual style.
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As the lighting designer for the multi-platinum Grammy winners Diamond Rio, Willis Underhill has run his dynamic lightshows in a variety of venues from arenas and music halls to festivals. Recently, he lit the band’s show at the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo with a ChamSys console.
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Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan, officially opened its doors to the world in early April. With 150 countries and regions represented, this global event presents a vivid blueprint for the future. Against this global backdrop, AOTO, a leading innovator in LED display technology, is used in four major pavilions.
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Big Picture and Creative Technology, long-standing leaders in the visual production industry, have made a significant leap in enhancing their capabilities, having expanded their LED… Read More »Big Picture and Creative Technology Australia & New Zealand Boost LED Inventory
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The 2025 ISU World Figure Skating Championships at TD Garden featured a design from Lighting Designer Scott Clyve. 4Wall Boston delivered lighting, rigging, truss, FX, and comms solutions that redefined the event’s visual atmosphere.
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Dakota Theater, one of The Hague’s eight cultural anchors and a vibrant artistic hub of the Dutch city, has taken a significant step into the future with the installation of a cutting-edge LED lighting system by Elation.
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