UPDATE: World Cup Image Gallery

Check out images from colleagues working on various venues and events during the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Related Gallery: Designing Vancouver 2010


© Mexico-based Darmah installed 108 Barco NX-6 tiles, 71 MiStrip modules, and an FSN video production switcher for TV Azteca’s broadcast studio for the FIFA World Cup.

Mexico-based Darmah installed 108 Barco NX-6 tiles, 71 MiStrip modules, and an FSN video production switcher for TV Azteca’s broadcast studio for the FIFA World Cup.

Gearhouse South Africa was contracted by ceremonies producers VWV Group to deliver all technical aspects of the amazing Closing Ceremony of the 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup at Soccer City Stadium in Soweto, including lighting design, done by Gearhouse's HugLarge-format projection for the Closing Ceremony was done by France-based E/T/C and led by Patrice Bouqueniaux using Christie Digital Roadster HD18K projectors. (Photo Louise Stickland)Lighting for the Closing Ceremony included Panther 2kW and 5kW searchlights and 120 Philips Vari-Lites, including VL3000s, VL3500s and VLXs, as well as Robe ColorSpot and ColorWash 2500E ATs, and Robe REDWash 3-192 LED wash lights, Strong Entertainment LiGearhouse’s Tim Dunn chose an MA Lighting grandMA system for control, with three grandMAs for programming, and another used as a technical console on the field during programming. (Photo Louise Stickland)
The lighting for the Closing Ceremony used 30 DMX universes plus 10 spares. The lighting data control network was designed by Chris Grandin from Gearhouse Media, and it used 4Km of fiber optic cable that looped back on itself all the way around the stadiuRobe CitySkape Xtreme LED fixtures illuminate the world’s largest soccer ball (15m high), as declared by the Guinness Book of World Records, at the Emperor’s Palace Hotel, Casino Convention & Entertainment Resort in Johannesburg. A promotion for Kia MotorICT AG, a multimedia system house based in Germany, created a new sports-broadcasting presentation tool for the World Cup, developed with SWR (Südwestrundfunk, or Southwest Broadcasting) and Burmester Event- und Medientechnik and using a coolux Pandoras Bcoolux products used for the SWR’s main studio at the IBC (International Broadcast Centre) for the touch-screen presentation setup included five screens with a coolux Pandoras Box with dual DVI and SD/SDI each, as well as coolux Manager PRO, and the cooluStageline mobile stages were used for several events surrounding the FIFA’s World Cup Trophy Tour prior to the games. All models—the SL100, SL260, the Promobile, and the SL320—were in use for World Cup celebrations.
Stageline’s 30-ton SAM550 unit was airlifted from Europe to Nigeria for a major World Cup-related concert event. (Photo courtesy of Star Events Group Limited.)

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