LONDON – Float4 Interactive produced two digital installations in collaboration with Christie Digital for the 2012 Olympic Games. The installations are displayed July 27-Aug. 15 at the Canada House in London, to create branding for Canada and to stimulate foreign investment options.
Read More »LONDON – The shortlist of lighting designers nominated for the Knight of Illumination Awards has been released. The awards will be presented in a ceremony on Sept.9 at Battersea Evolution, Battersea Park, London.
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JERUSALEM – TV LD Ofer Jacobi specified ROBIN MMX Spots with LEDWash 1200 and 600s for the latest series of “Dancing With The Stars,” Israel’s version of the BBC’s “Strictly Come Dancing.” Now in its seventh season, Jacobi wanted to completely reinvent the set lighting this time around. Having the new MMX Spots enabled him to produce complex animations on the dance floor.
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AMHERST, NY – Stampede Presentation Products Inc. recently helped Lumina Motion create two 3D mapping events for the official launches of the Audi A6 and Audi Zentrum in Santiago, Chile. Both events required more than three weeks of development and design to create both the physical display surfaces and promotional videos to maximize the visual impact of the 3D mapping technology.
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KIEV, Ukraine – A longtime Vista user, LD Rob Sinclair chose to use the new flagship Jands Vista L5 console for the first time to control lighting and media for Queen. The first show was performed in front of crowds estimated at up to 500,000 people in Independence Square, Kiev, Ukraine. “American Idol” star Adam Lambert is lead singer for their recent string of shows.
Read More »COLUMBIA, MD – Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc. has launched Vectorworks Cloud Services in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. Vectorworks Cloud Services provides greater convenience, collaboration and freedom for users to access their designs from any location, at any time. All members of the Vectorworks Service Select software subscription program receive access to Vectorworks Cloud Services and 5 GB of storage capacity.
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LJUBLIJANA, Slovenia – Event Lighting provided Robe moving lights to fill most of the rig for the Red Summer Dance Party with Tiesto and other DJs at the Arena Stozice. Event Lighting’s LD Jernej Gustin, who designs for many top Slovenian bands, specified more than 75 Robe fixtures including ROBIN 600 LEDWashes, ColorSpot 1200E ATs, ColorSpot 700E ATs and ColorSpot 575E ATs.
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AMSTERDAM – Amsterdam Arena was transformed into an oasis of white recently for the premiere of Sensation’s new show Source Of Light, when 40,000 people gathered under a huge dynamic spherical center piece dominated by LED strips from SGM. The company’s Dutch distributor RentAll were asked to provide the most dynamic single LED statement yet seen, to decorate an all aluminum, 14 meter radiating sphere, weighing 12 tons, and operated by multiple motors.
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HAMADI, Algeria – PR Lighting effects are being used heavily on the latest series of Algerian TV game show Takdar Tarbah (which translates as You Can Win). PR Lighting’s Algerian distributors Neosun Algerie supplied the lighting for set designer Thierry Rollin.
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HARLOW, Essex, UK – Performing arts school Makin’ Steps’ annual shows have grown into larger spectacles since 1998, each year getting more creatively and technically ambitious. This year they asked London-based Colour Sound Experiment (CSE) for help with lighting, trussing, rigging, power distribution and crew. The four days of sold-out shows covered six decades of popular music since the Queen’s coronation in 1952.
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NOVI SAD, Serbia – Serbian technical solutions provider Studio Berar supplied more than 130 Robe moving lights to the three biggest stages of the 20-stage EXIT Festival. Lighting designers for Studio Berar were Marko Malesevic, Goran Kravic and Radoslav Mihalek, who lit stages featuring Duran Duran, Guns N’ Roses and AVICCI, among many others.
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LONDON – SGM Lighting has expanded its distribution arrangements in the UK, appointing A.C. Entertainment Technologies Ltd (AC-ET) to work in parallel with existing distributor, LED Projects. The new arrangement takes effect Aug. 1, and AC-ET confirms it will showcase the latest SGM range at this year’s PLASA 2012 exhibition in September.
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