USA - grandMA2 went on a mission shortly after Christmas when almost 16,000 people gathered in St. Louis for Urbana 12, the triennial student missions conference held by InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA. Dodd Technologies Inc. ...
UK - West London-based rental company, Entec Sound & Light were asked to supply lighting, trussing and rigging for a high profile one off concert by Malaysian Chinese superstar Fish Leong at Wembley Arena. Entec was working for the show's ...
Tags: Entec lights, lighting, lighting designer
SBLD is offering a student placement opportunity for an Assistant Lighting Designer - kindly sponsored by Robe Show Lighting - at Vivid Light 2013, which takes place in Sydney, Australia from 24 May to 10 June 2013. The Vivid Light event ...
Tags: SBLD, Assistant LD Role, Vivid Sydney
USA - Country music superstar Carrie Underwood continues her Blown Away Tour with a large inventory of Clay Paky Sharpy fixtures on hand to accent the video components of the show. Lighting designer Peter Morse of Peter Morse Productions ...
Tags: LED video, LED panels, LED walls
USA - Robert Juliat participated in Live Design's 2012 Concert Master Classes at USC, Los Angeles last month showcasing its fixtures for those attending the immersive two-day event and accompanying attendees to a performance of Bruce ...
Tags: lighting, projection design challenges, lighting scenes
UK - Pearce Hire has once more demonstrated the diverse breadth of projects they work on, with a magical garden lighting feature installed over the festive season. The beautiful landscaped gardens at Anglesey Abbey in Cambridgeshire were ...
USA - Passion Conferences, founded by Louie Giglio in 1997 as a means of reaching the 20+ million university students in the world for the glory of God, has become one of the world's largest gatherings of Christian young adults. Held in ...
Tags: LEDs, LED edge, LED product
LEDs are getting more than a cursory glance from retailers with some big-name chains opting to fit them in their stores. Angeline Albert asks some major retailers if they are now ready to fully embrace the technology. Much has been ...
Tags: LEDs, lighting, lighting tech
UK - Back in 2002, lighting designer Richard Williamson and Peter Kirkup (a student at the time, now VP of entertainment at LumenRadio) had the idea of setting up an online forum to discuss life and work backstage. On 29 January 2003 The ...
Germany/Austria - Lighting designer Tino Weinhardt from Dessauer based rental company i:TECS Germany recently lit two high profile gala fundraiser events - in Munich and Vienna - for the Ronald McDonald Kinderhilfe. Together, these ...
Tags: Robe Lights, Lighting design, ECS Germany
UK - A squad of Clay Paky Sharpys proved the must-have gadgets for lighting designer Nick Gray at the latest Bond film premiere party at London's iconic Tate Modern. Gray, of London-based lighting creator Renegade, specified 24 ...
Tags: Clay Paky Sharpys, Nick Gray, lighting
UK - At midnight on New Year's Eve, the Mayor of London's New Year's Eve Firework Display celebrated an extraordinary year for the capital. Jack Morton Worldwide, the award winning global brand experience agency, created the display for the ...
Tags: Firework Display, London, Stage Electrics, lighting
PLDC is the largest forum for the lighting design community worldwide with more than 1300 attendees expected in 2013. Leading researchers, practicing lighting designers and the leading lighting industry will come together to discuss ...
Tags: PLDC, lighting industry, lighting
Experienced Swedish lighting designer Henrik Lundin is discovering that SGM's new X-5 LED strobes are making an increasingly powerful contribution to his show designs. A member of the successful Stockholm-based company Satellite Live, ...
Tags: lighting designer, Henrik Lundin, SGM, X-5 LED strobes
Knight of Illumination Award-winner and lighting designer Cate Carter has harnessed the precise and powerful beam control of Philips Vari-Lite VL3500 Wash FX luminaires to create a beautifully focused, and surprisingly intimate, show for ...