The manufacturer of a range of transparent LED video systems, including the Phantom frame system and Solaris, which are fully backed by the company's high standards of service and support, G-LEC supports both existing sales outlets and new customers with standard product always available from stock. The company also offers bespoke solutions, such as the media façade installed at Munich's BMW Museum.
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GDS is a UK Manufacturer with a diverse range of technology based products. Based in Bristol with offices in the US, it has six key brands in its product portfolio specialising in lighting and control solutions.
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"I am convinced that there is an abundance of design opportunities and new business in the national and international architectural and display lighting market for a highly creative experienced new company," says Wadsworth.
Lightinc will concentrate its efforts in three main areas: Projects - Independent lighting design and supply projects, including electrical installation, focusing, commissioning and maintenance of the lighting system; Products - The design and development of a range of lighting products. Wadsworth intends to develop these fittings to suit the requirements of the lighting specification market, along with products designed for specific lighting applications; Lect
The campaign is open to companies from all sectors who want to reduce the amount of carbon emitted from their buildings and to motivate fellow employees to get involved. In return, participants will be able to access an extensive list of carbon saving activities and expert advice.
This is the fourth Carbon Clean Up Campaign run by CIBSE - last year's campaign saw around 600 organisations sign up to cut carbon, including hospitals, museums, consultancies, local authorities and universities. Buildings already signed up for the 2009 campaign include Tate Britain and the Science Museum.
Mike Simpson, CIBSE President, said: "We are now in the fourth year of Carbon Clean up Campaigns and enthusiasm
E/T/C London's Ross Ashton designed and produced custom artwork for the high impact projections which run for approximately 50% of the show. This is the most that projected images have been used to date since the medium was first introduced into the Tattoo's visual mix in 2005.
Four of E/T/C's PIGI 6K projectors fitted with double rotating scro
The report describes a difficult first half of 2009, in which the group's consolidated revenue has fallen 13.1% from H1 2008, while the company's earnings before income tax (EBIT) fell by DKK 138 million to DKK 12 million, which the report says "is not considered to be satisfactory".
Furthermore, Schouw says that its earnings difficulties are "predominantly attributable to Martin".
"Revenue failed to meet expectations, and Martin continues to be hard hit by the knock-on effects of the global financial crisis. Geographically, the recession is broadly founded, and investments in large parts of the events
The support of Supply2.gov.uk underlines PLASA09's role as a focus for business within the sector. Supply2Gov is the first major initiative to unite both buyers and suppliers in a single location, making it easier for business and government to work together. Suppliers can access UK-wide contracts for free via an online Contract Search, and can also sign up for a daily e-mail alert.Since its launch, the portal has provided small businesses throughout the UK wit
Hosted by Steve Schirripa of Sopranos fame, contestants choose a professional poker player (the Ace) to match wits against from among four doors. Filmed at Cin City Studios in Las Vegas, Face the Ace uses a complement of Martin Professional lighting gear to dress the set in colour and beam effects, including the new MAC 301 Wash luminaire.
Innovative Show Design (ISD) of Lake Mary, Florida handled all scenic and lighting design, production and installation for client Poker Production. Lighting design is by ISD's lighting director/associate artistic director Justin Garrone.
The set design is based on a fashionable, contemporary hotel suite. "We were inspired by the look an
The culmination of Liverpool's 2009 Art On The Waterfront event also produced by Walk The Plank for Liverpool City Council, LuminoCity was produced in conjunction with Tate Liverpool, which ran a week of colourful summer events for all ages inspired by their exhibition Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today.
Stephen Page of DBN designed the light show which illuminated the 50m tall building. Page used over 200 assorted LED fixtures, primarily Chroma-Q Colorblock mk2s, dotted all over the bu
The Edinburgh International Conference Centre used a grandMA2 light console for their main Pentland auditorium, a 600 - 1200 capacity flexible space. This hosted two dance shows in rep and several comedy performances including Jimmy Carr and Jason Byrne, during the festival.
The console supply was instigated by freelance lighting designer Dave Elcome, who created the production design for most of the shows staged in the venue, and Kenneth Boak, the EICC's technical production manager.
Over in the Music Hall venue within the Assembly Rooms on George Street, another grandMA2 light was in action with a grandMA pico for the duration. The grandMA2 light was specified by Assembly Rooms' head of lighting Paul Lim, and operated primarily by Dave Evans and Steve Sanders, who ran it in 'series 1
To keep pace with modern tour riders, and the growing move by the medium-sized venue market to offer bands the opportunity to leave their production in the truck, visiting sound engineers can now mix their acts through Soundcraft 64-channel Vi6 at front-of-house and 48-channel Vi4 at the monitor position.
The desks were chosen by the venue's technical manager Dave McVea, and installed by the SSE Audio Group installation project team, led by Alex Penn and Steve Dando.
Rock City is owned by DHP (Daybrook House Promotions) who went through a long process of consideration before it made its final choice of an audio supplier. Managing director David Dav
This Channel 4 eight part-series sees Brooker dissecting the week's TV shows along with three guests.
Production designer Cath Pater-Lancucki is the creator of the towering set of back-lit stacked TV sets crowned with satellite dishes. Lighting Designer, Will Charles wanted it to feel like an 'over the top' version of Telly Addicts.
Charles enlisted the services of Richard Martin Lighting to provide the lighting fixtures for the show which consists of 20 GLP Chrome Impressions as a ceiling of light above the set , seven VL3500 and four VL3000 Spots for searchlight beams behind the set , two Mac 500's as backlights and eight VL1000TS as tungsten key lights.
Charles has been working alongside moving li
In addition, the series PAR38-12X2WF boasts a wide-focused beam of around 90 degrees, powerful 661 (XIW) and 808 (XPW) lumens of brightness, easy drop-in installation in existing 26mm Edison/E27 European base sockets, and sturdy construction with UV-stabilized plastic lens and magnesium alloy housing.
The maintenance-free LEDtronics PAR38 series comes
As Novalight's UK distributor, Lightfactor has enjoyed considerable success with its high powered High-Ground and Nova-Flower range of moving lights, which will feature on the stand along with the new Nova-Beam and 2K Nova-Flower - which was developed specially for show designer and LD Willie Williams for the current U2 tour, and is now available as a production model. Nova-Flowers are also featured on the current Coldplay world tour (LD Paul Normandale).
The DMX-controlled Novalight High-Ground uses a 2000W MSR light sour
"My production background is mainly in audio," Pryor says, "So my team has a lot of fun making all the standard lighting/audio jokes to keep things light and fun. I was actually hired in audio but was invited to manage the lighting department when Tom Stanziano, the previous LD, left. Tom was the one who originally specified theses fixtures to accomplish the goals, and he obviously made a great call. I still s
His manager said the star feared for his safety and considered pulling out. Fernan Martinez Maecha told the Associated Press: "The concert is still on, and Juanes is maintaining a positive attitude throughout all of this." Mr Maecha said there is "absolutely nothing political" about the peace concert, which is set to take place in Havana's Revolution Plaza. Juanes held a peace concert in March 2008 on the Venezuela-Colombia border when tensions were high over a Colombian c
Sistema faced a difficult task when they came on the project. "Our employees' first impression was daunting," says Pavel Petryanin, director of Sistema's projects department. "The grounds of the facility were seriously damaged during the war. The sun was shining through a hole in the roof. We had to carry out a complete reconstruction project, practically starting from scratch."
Sistema installed 560 conventional luminaires - including dozens of ETC Source Four PARs - and
The new wave-like pedestrian footbridge links Tradeston on the south bank of the river Clyde with Glasgow's financial services district. It was devised by Glasgow-based civil engineers Halcrow in partnership with Scandinavian architects Dissing & Weitling, and reflects Glasgow City Council's objective to improve cross-river accessibility and create a landmark waterfront structure.
LTP's expertise and penchant for intricate and detailed installations (which recently includes the London Eye and Sidings Bridge, Swansea) was called into the project by Martin Architectural, who tasked them with delivering the lighting and providing their direct client BAM Nuttalls with a fully project managed scheme. T
The offenders used a large blue Mercedes Sprinter van to remove the equipment from the premises; the van was last seen driving through Clevedon at approximately 3.30am, believed to be heading towards Portishead and possibly the M5 motorway.
A majority of the stolen lighting equipment was, at the time, on hire from Norwich stage lighting company Viking Stage Lighting. Some of the equipment stolen included expensive Robe Colourspot 1200, Robe Colourwash 575 AT Zoom, and Robe Colourwash 250 AT moving head fixtures. The lights would have been stored in, predominantly, light blue flight cases with the Viking Lighting logo screen printed on the sides.
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In addition to doubling the warehouse space, ID provides 11,000sq.ft of air-conditioned offices, repair, conference, and demo rooms - including separate production crew offices with convenient telephone and wi-fi internet connectivity.
Repair facilities offer maintenance in-house as well as equipment servicing for customers. Dedicated entries and spacious loading docks for each department facilitate easy equipment pickup and
Bohnenpoll says:, "I have worked with Rosco for my entire entertainment career and I am looking forward to developing Rosco's potential even further within Germany."
Bohnenpoll will focus his attention on professional users from theatre, rental, architectural and the entertainment markets as well as providing support for all Rosco dealers in Germany, says the company.
Andreas Dessloch, business development manager for Germany says, "I am delighted to have Matthias on board and look forward to working with him to promote Rosco sales in Germany."
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Seven of the fixtures - specially developed by Italian manufacturer Novalight for the tour and now in full production - are positioned around the stadiums in the audience bleachers, pointing back at the stage.
Say's PRG's group asset director Paul Weaver, "They are an incredibly powerful effect, even contending with all the other lighting and LED screens, we're really impressed with their effect". He also reports that they are withstanding the rigours of touring extremely well.
The fixtures were sold to PRG, U2's main lighting contractors, by Lightfactor Sales, Novalight's exclusive UK distributor.
Ahead of the tour, Williams initially examined the original 1.2K Nova Flowers among other
This plug and play solution allows for instant show start. After connecting the MA VPU to a grandMA/grandMA2 console everything is ready to go. With the MA VPU video will be controlled just like another lighting fixture.
Based on MA Lighting's technology, the MA VPU offers "extreme reliability and powerful performance" - optimised for transport, longevity and use on-the-road as well as for fixed installations like theatres and TV studios.
Three different versions of the MA VPU are available: MA VPU pro, MA VPU plus and MA VPU basic. It is possible to select, control, live-access and to alter all the MA VPU's videos, still images and 3D objects from the grandMA. As all MA VPUs and grandMA consoles share the same showf
The new sales brochure was well received when it was first distributed at ShowTech, Berlin in June. Robert Juliat will now be following on from this success by distributing it from their stand at PLASA 09. 70 pages of information, illustrations and technical specifications cover the full range of Robert Juliat products.
"Quality is all-important at Robert Juliat and we wanted to produce a brochure that would reflect this, whilst at the same time giving our customer
