ROZNOV, Czech Republic — Some 150 attendees representing Robe distributors from around the world gathered for Robe’s third International Dealer Conference. The event was held shortly before the Prolight + Sound exhibition took place in Frankfurt, Germany.
LAS VEGAS — Corporate extravaganzas may be less extravagant these days, but people still enjoy a good party. The creative challenge for the party-givers is to do just as much — or more — with less.
WARSAW, IN — The Da-Lite Design Center is for projects requiring custom projection screens, and also features the screen company’s line of wood products, including media work stations, lecterns and equipment rack carts.
BRONX, NY — Yankee Stadium opened the season with the latest HD Diamond Vision™ display in center field from Mitsubishi Electric, which has been providing LED video displays for the team since 1983 and for major league baseball since 1980. The screen features 1080 resolution from more than eight million LEDs (light-emitting diodes) for replays, updates from around the league and messaging.
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO — Wybron’s Gel Swatch Library Version 1.3, which has nearly 1,000 gel colors, now features Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) graphs five times larger than the app’s previous graphs, revealing color details for lighting production professionals.
NEW YORK — The career of Jules Fisher, a Tony-Award winning lighting designer who won USITT’s 2009 Distinguished Achievement Award in Lighting Design, is portrayed in a new book USITT, The Designs of Jules Fisher, written by Delbert Unruh. It is the fifth in a series of works on living designers produced by USITT.
NEW YORK — ESTA recently introduced the Business Peer Group Advisory Program (BPGAP), an opportunity for members to meet regularly with a small group of people from the industry with similar business issues, questions and solutions. The program provides a forum where members can discuss, share and brainstorm to help their businesses and each other.
BRANSON, MO — Blue Planet Lighting said it has recently purchased all assets of the former lighting company, Theatreworks, LLC. BPL won a bid from the state of Missouri which included all of the former company’s new and used stock, rental gear, furniture, computers and other items.
ORLANDO — LMG Inc, a national provider of video, audio and lighting support, celebrated 25 years of business and launched a new Web site at www.lmg.net to showcase its legacy businesses — show technology and systems integration — and herald its newest division, concert touring.
ASHLAND, VA — Andy Broitman announced the launch of Architainment Resources, a manufacturer’s representative agency for the Mid-Atlantic architectural, entertainment and theatrical communities. The initial product offering is a range of portable roofs, truss systems and staging systems complemented by stands and lighting fixtures and accessories.
SAN DIEGO — Unlimited Visibility Lighting Design (UVLD) was chosen by longtime client Altered Image to provide the lighting design for an event they produced for Forest Laboratories, Inc. The gathering unveiled Savella, a new treatment option for the estimated six million Americans suffering from fibromyalgia. Forest Laboratories and Cypress Bioscience, Inc. received FDA approval for Savella in January.
WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) honored Philips Color Kinetics with award for its progress on an 18-month R&D project funded with a $1.7 million DOE grant.