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Rapyd’s ‘Hack the Galaxy’ Event Shines with Claypaky Fixtures Chosen by Lighting Designers Omer Israeli and Dor Aichner

Lighting Designers Omer Israeli & Dor Aichner of Tel Aviv-based lighting and stage design company, LEAD, chose a large complement of Claypaky fixtures to illuminate the dynamic, futuristic Hack the Galaxy event held by Rapyd at the 2022 Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal. They utilized 96 Tambora Batten Square, 16 Mythos 2, and 48 Xtylos fixtures for the third and last event in Rapyd’s Hack the Galaxy campaign held at developer conferences in Europe in 2022. Previous events took place in Berlin, Germany and Zadar, Croatia. Lisbon’s Web Summit is an annual tech conference focusing on Internet technology, emerging technologies and venture capitalism. More than 70,000 attended the November 2022 gathering.Read More »Rapyd’s ‘Hack the Galaxy’ Event Shines with Claypaky Fixtures Chosen by Lighting Designers Omer Israeli and Dor Aichner

Ghost – A Design Like None Other

The Swedish rock band Ghost recently wrapped up the third, North American leg of its Imperatour tour for which Brazil-based Lighting Designer, Erich Bertti was once again back designing along with the band’s lead singer Tobias Forge. Also returning to support the Ghost tour and Bertti was Senior Account Manager, Steven “Creech” Anderson and Madison, TN-based Premier Global Production, providing lighting, rigging, truss and crew. Bertti and Anderson fill PLSN in on the design and their working relationship for Ghost’s tour.

LDI 2022 Helps Industry Gear Up for Busy 2023

The LDI Show returned to Las Vegas after a busy year of live event productions across North America. The aisles were busy with production pros seeking to gear up for another busy year ahead, with exhibitors unveiling as many new products as steadily improving supply chain conditions would permit.

Claypaky Achieves Key Milestone in its “CP Green” Sustainability Project

Claypaky has achieved a key milestone in its “CP Green” Sustainability Project by gaining ISO 14064-1:2018 Certification as the first entertainment lighting company being certified in the Carbon Inventory Management System. In March 2022, Claypaky launched its “CP Green – Spotlight on Sustainability” initiative for environmental sustainability. The project was undertaken in cooperation with Spinlife, spin-off of the University of Padova. The Spinlife team provides public and private organizations of all sizes with tailored consulting plans regarding strategic environmental management and sustainability management techniques.Read More »Claypaky Achieves Key Milestone in its “CP Green” Sustainability Project

Claypaky New Products @ LDI 2022

Claypaky has a number of new products its showing at LDI 2022, including the World Premiere of the Volero Wave, an LED bar with original and innovative features. It is made up of a system of eight moving heads, each one independently capable of a 220° tilt, thus producing never-seen-before three-dimensional volumetric projections. Each of these heads contains a brand-new mirror-based optical system combined with 40W RGBW LEDs; the innovative concept behind Volero Wave was to be able to move the entire light source on its axis, thus preserving the same intensity of the light flux in any position of the tilt range. The beams always appear extremely sharp and collimated, parallel to each other thanks to the 2.9° projection angle. Their synchronized movement produces an impressive wave of light, all the more overwhelming the more Volero Wave units you seamlessly connect to each other. When fitted on the Claypaky Panify, they can even be provided with an endless variable-speed pan rotation, making the Volero Wave the most dynamic effect light on the market. Here’s a video preview of the Volero Wave from Claypaky:

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Lighting Designer Don Holder to be Honored with the Claypaky-Sponsored Paky Award

Lighting Designer Don Holder

The seventh Paky Award will be presented to Tony Award-winning Lighting Designer Don Holder by Claypaky CEO Marcus Graser at LDI 2022 on Saturday, November 19 in Las Vegas. Sponsored by Claypaky, the award honors an individual who has made a major contribution to the lighting industry, in terms of design or technology.Read More »Lighting Designer Don Holder to be Honored with the Claypaky-Sponsored Paky Award

KoRn

Crowned a fan favorite and ‘the band’s best show yet’, KoRn performs behind a transparent wall of video images and lighting effects on their Summer 2022 Tour. PLSN catches up with Production Manager Robert “Bobby” Schneider and Production/Lighting Designer Thomas “Church” Christmann to learn how it all calmly came together.

Swedish House Mafia: Designing A Circular Paradise

We hear all about the massive circular structure rig on Swedish House Mafia’s Paradise Again world tour from Ben Dalgleish and the Human Person design team, the architects of this rave arena experience. We also talk to All Access about the build and with ER Productions about the laser design by Derek Abbott.