News in the Design Engineering Industry

Super Bowl XLV Halftime Show, Part 3: The Drawings

Feb 15, 2011

Check out the drawings from the Super Bowl XLV Halftime Show...

Super Bowl XLV Halftime Show, Part 2: The Renderings

Feb 14, 2011

Check out the renderings from the Super Bowl XLV Halftime Show...

Super Bowl XLV Halftime Show, Part I: Intro

Feb 14, 2011, By Michael S. Eddy

When I covered the Super Bowl XLV halftime show three years ago I referred to it as the toughest eight-minute load-in in show business...

BMC Manufacturers Showcase For Cutting-Edge Gear

Feb 14, 2011, Ellen Lampert-Gréaux

See the latest in professional sound, projection, and lighting technology...

Telestream Episode 6 Media Encoder

Feb 10, 2011, By Daniel Brodie

The high-level tools of Episode 6 professional video transcoding ...

Design Gallery: Sets And Costumes For The Road To Qatar

Feb 9, 2011

The York Theatre Company production of the new musical The Road To Qatar opened last week, with set, costume, and puppet design by Michael Bottari and Ronald Case...

Legends Of The Wall, Part 2: Creating Content

Feb 8, 2011, By Marian Sandberg and Meleah Maynard

Sean Evans and Richard Turner discuss creating content for Roger Waters' The Wall tour...

VIDEO: Luminous Tweets And Retweets

Feb 8, 2011, By Thomas Schielke

Thomas Schielke shares a video timeline of international media facades that feature public participation...

Registration Open For 2011 Broadway Master Classes

Feb 7, 2011

VIDEO: A Tour Of Wybron's Mobile Light Lab

Feb 7, 2011, By Marian Sandberg

Colorado Springs, CO- based Wybron starts the Visuality 2011 Tour of its Mobile Light Lab today...

Ortel and Werner Featured at BPMC

Feb 6, 2011, Ellen Lampert-Gréaux

Sven Ortel and Howard Werner Featured at Broadway Projection Master Classes on May 23...

VIDEO: Bird Watching With Jeremy Railton At Crane Dance

Feb 3, 2011, By Ellen Lampert-Gréaux

Crane Dance is a 10-minute "ballet mecanique" between two mechanical cranes weighing 80 tons each and designed by Jeremy Railton....

Design Gallery: Piers Morgan Set for CNN

Feb 1, 2011, By Marian Sandberg

Jack Morton Worldwide designed the set, built by Showman Fabricators, for the new Piers Morgan Tonight on CNN. Projection screens hanging from the grid and animated graphic walls grace the colorful set...

Surviving The Impossibly Short Notice Gig

Feb 1, 2011, By Cory FitzGerald

This is by no means a "how-to" guide. It is merely some useful information I'm inclined to share with those of you out there who will find yourselves on one end of a phone conversation baffled at what you are hearing...

Legends Of The Wall, Part 1: Mark Fisher, Production Designer

Jan 31, 2011, By Marian Sandberg

Mark Fisher says the goal of restaging Roger Waters' The Wall tour was to "recreate the original show, but also to add to it using present-day video technology"...

Master Classes Focus On Spider-Man On Broadway

Jan 31, 2011, By Ellen Lampert-Gréaux

BLMC and BPMC focus on design of Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark...

Roger Waters' The Wall 30th Anniversary Tour Creative And Crew

Jan 31, 2011, By Marian Sandberg

Check out the creative team and crew behind Roger Waters' The Wall, currently touring...

Behind the Scenes Announces Holiday Card Student Design Contest

Jan 31, 2011

Behind the Scenes announces its second annual holiday card student design contest...

Chris Werner: Q&A on TAP: The Show

Jan 31, 2011, By Ellen Lampert-Gréaux

LD Chris Werner chats about this award-winning production at Hersheypark ...

VIDEO: Costumes Aboard The Royal Caribbean Fleet

Jan 28, 2011

Check out this behind-the-scenes look at the costume department for Royal Caribbean Cruises...

New Year's Resolution For A Sound Mixer

Jan 27, 2011, By Shannon Slaton

There have been some great books written about the sound profession, and it is a good idea to take some books for a spin and pick up some knowledge from some very experienced folks...