News in the Design Engineering Industry

Seen And Heard April 2, 2012

Apr 2, 2012, By Robert Cashill

Robert Cashill reports on Death of A Salesman and Carrie...

Obit: Lenny Tedesco of Masque Sound

Apr 2, 2012

Tedesco, Lenny, Jr., 54, a technician at Masque Sound, passed away on March 30, 2012. ...

Last month, Italian lighting manufacturer SGM was sold by RCF Group to a consortium led by none other than Peter Johansen, a veteran of automated lighting manufacturing and founder of Martin Professional. While he was absent from the industry for more than ten years after leaving Martin, he rejoined this realm as R&D director of SGM in 2010. ...

Peter Rogers Joins Forman & Associates

Mar 28, 2012, By Ellen Lampert-Gréaux

Peter Rogers to handle entertainment sales for Harry Forman & Associates in Los Angeles...

USB and MADI, Together At LastUSB and MADI, Together At Last

Mar 23, 2012, By Zach Williamson

Universal Serial Bus meets Multichannel Audio Digital Interface in Digico Solutions’ new UB>MADI device. ...

2012 BLMC Schedule Announced

Mar 19, 2012, By Ellen Lampert-Gréaux

Tune into a great group of speakers at the 2012 Broadway Lighting Master Classes, May 22-24...

Einstein Theory

Mar 16, 2012, By Davi Napoleon

Solving Problems For A Touring Revival Of The Robert Wilson-Philip Glass Opera, Einstein On The Beach ...

A Closer Look At Jason Simms, Scenographer

Mar 16, 2012, By Ellen Lampert-Gréaux

Scenographer Jason Simms is winner of this year’s USITT Rising Star Award....

Antony And The Johnsons’ Swanlights

Mar 16, 2012, By Marian Sandberg

For a one-off performance at Radio City Music Hall in New York, the Museum of Modern Art commissioned Swanlights from Antony and the Johnsons. Led by Antony Hegarty, this production expanded on The Crying Light, which was performed at the Manchester International Festival in 2009....

5 Questions With Danny Whetstone, DWP

Mar 15, 2012, By Marian Sandberg

Talking with Danny Whetstone of DWP Live...

The Smallest Show On Earth

Mar 15, 2012, By John Leonard

My almost certain-to-be longest-running sound design ever is not in a theatre or an exhibition. It sits in a gallery in one of London’s most popular historic house museums, The Wallace Collection, in Manchester Square, a stone’s throw away from the busy shopping area that is Oxford Street....

d3 Introduces d3 Designer

Mar 8, 2012, By Daniel Brodie

I'm a fan of offline editors, and that's why I was happy to see a recent announcement for a new "software only" version of United Visual Artists' d3 system called d3 Designer....

MuteMath Takes Projection Mapping On Tour

Mar 7, 2012, By Marian Sandberg

Check out the behind the scenes videos showing how Rabbit Hole Creative created projection mapping for the MuteMath Odd Soul tour....

2012 Broadway Projection Master Classes Schedule Announced

Mar 7, 2012, By Ellen Lampert-Gréaux

Join top Broadway designers for a full-day of sessions to sharpen your focus on projection ...

Halftime Lighting

Mar 6, 2012, By Ellen Lampert-Gréaux

“Madonna had a definite and very strong idea of what she wanted, and the design was driven very largely by that,” says LD Al Gurdon, in terms of the ultimate lighting design....

Housing Available for Broadway Master Classes

Mar 4, 2012, By Ellen Lampert-Gréaux

Two hotels and NYU dorm rooms available in May for BMC attendees and sponsors...

2012 BSMC Schedule Announced

Mar 2, 2012, By Ellen Lampert-Gréaux

BSMC features Abe Jacob, Jill BC DuBoff, Kai Harada, Bob McCarthy, Mick Potter, Shannon Slaton, Nevin Steinberg, John Taylor, and Ken Travis ...

Triple Play For Paule Constable At The Met

Mar 2, 2012, By Ellen Lampert-Greaux

Triple Play For Paule Constable Designs Lighting For Three Productions At The Metropolitan Opera ...

Seen and Heard March 2, 2012

Mar 1, 2012, By Robert Cashill

Robert Cashill on Blood Knot and Richard III, Off Broadway...

All That Glitters At Oro

Mar 1, 2012, By Marian Sandberg

At Hard Rock Hotel And Casino In Punta Cana, Oro Nightclub Sports A Tron-Inspired Vibe....

Nights To Remember At Kauffman Center

Mar 1, 2012, By Ellen Lampert-Gréaux

Walls of projections celebrated the debut of Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts last September in Kansas City, MO....

LMG: Super Bowl Video Technical Process

Mar 1, 2012, By Ken Gay

LMG collaborated with Bruce Rogers, All Access, and Moment Factory on the Super Bowl XLVI Halftime Show video technology ...

Trees of Light In Paris

Feb 28, 2012, By Ellen Lampert-Gréaux

From late November 2011 until early January, “Tree Rings” added movement and color to the organic forms of 200 trees along a 1.5-mile stretch of The Champs-Elysées in Paris....

Broadway Master Classes To See Evita