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NASHVILLE — Early in 2015, creative production design company 44 Designs (44designs.com) of Nashville, Tennessee, took on set and lighting design duties for country music duo Thompson Square’s new music video “Trans Am” and used Elation Cuepix Panels, Sniper 2R multi-effects and Platinum Beams in the visual design. The award-winning and multi-platinum group liked the look so much they decided to take it out on tour.

MYRTLE BEACH, SC – Port City Community Church’s Annual FUSE summer camp brings together four campuses, over 500 students, and 150 leaders.  This year’s incarnation also brought exceptional stage lighting to the program with a rig designed by Student Ministries Production Coordinator Matthew Berry.  4Wall DC was chosen as the lighting provider for the event.

SAN FRANCISCO – AC/DC’s Rock or Bust Tour is thundering across North America, bringing night after night of head-banging delight to hundreds of thousands of fans. The grungy, buffalo horned, ‘Mad Max’ style arena spectacular is the inspired work of Ray Winkler of Stufish Design and Patrick Woodroffe of Woodroffe Bassett Design Ltd and sees lighting and set seamlessly welded together in an imposing corrugated steel clad domed stage.

BOSTON — LD Matthew Kilmurry is controlling Irish musician Hozier’s U.S. and U.K. tour lighting this autumn using an Avolites Sapphire Touch. Kilmurry’s design for the Hozier tour is based around a warm tungsten atmospheric feel, using old-school Edison bulbs dotted around the stage, which creates a warm glow for the performers.

LOS ANGELES — Roy Bennett’s lighting design for Maroon 5’s year-long World Tour 2015 in support of V, the band’s fifth studio album, includes 210 Ayrton MagicBlade-R fixtures. Bennett, of Seven Design Works, used the MagicBlade-R units to delineate 13 jointed truss “arms,” which are suspended in a “V” shape above the stage to form a pivotal feature of the stage design.