Least we forgot in our sometimes-jaded ways as production professionals, the joy and smiles that encountering a lighting install can bring to the general public. Here is a bespoke light+art installation created by Lightswitch for the City of Beverly Hills holiday lighting program.
Leading visual design group, Lightswitch, has overseen lighting design and creative direction for Enchanted Forest of Light at Descanso Gardens in Southern California since 2016. This year, the popular one-mile nighttime walk through colorful and dazzling lighting displays shined brighter than ever with an expanded IP-rated lighting package from Elation that included the company’s new Proteus Hybrid MAX.Read More »Lightswitch Evolves ‘Enchanted Forest of Light‘ with Expanded Elation Lighting Package
Lightswitch recently shared v17 of its video series Clever Robot: projects that inspire us. Many of these inspirations come from within our own industry.
Visual design practice Lightswitch partnered with art sculpture studio HYBYCOZO to create a new immersive nighttime experience, “The Nature of Light: An Exploration After Dark” at The Paine Art Center and Gardens in Oshkosh, WI. The project uses a host of fixtures from Elation Professional.
Composer, producer and “rock star of film music” Hans Zimmer traveled through Europe this spring with his 19-piece band and an orchestra. Lightswitch LD John Featherstone and his team worked with an all-Robe moving light rig supplied by Satis & Fy.
Describing it as the “sweat of the sun,” the Incas revered gold as far more than a symbol of wealth and power. To them, the glittering metal was a gift bestowed directly from the gods that radiated mystical, restorative powers from its shimmering surface.
An ancient myth? Perhaps. Still, it’s one that visitors to Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru will readily understand. Named after a 15th-century Incan citadel in the Peruvian Andes, the exhibit, which opened at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, showcases a dazzling collection of 192 gold artifacts crafted by this vanished civilization.Read More »Lightswitch Evokes Magic of Machu Picchu with Chauvet Professional
For years now, Lightswitch has relied on Elation’s award-winning IP65 Proteus™ line to add dynamic flair to Enchanted: Forest of Light at Descanso Gardens in Southern California. For the recently completed 2021 iteration, the visual design group upgraded to Proteus Maximus™ and Proteus Lucius™ luminaires to add power and reimagine portions of the popular winter nighttime experience.Read More »Proteus Helps Fulfill Lightswitch Design for Enchanted Forest of Light at Descanso Gardens
Lightswitch and ASU Students Create an Artistic Drive-Thru Experience You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind.… Read More »designspace
