These 10 inspiring lighting installations used new technology and old-fashioned ingenuity to create moody environments, transform spaces, and energize crowds.
A installation by Levy Lighting
Photo: Courtesy of Levy Lighting NYC
Los Angeles-based Do Lab created artichoke-shaped chandeliers for Electric Picnic, a music festival held last August in Ireland. The team wired the sculptures to a lighting board to control them individually during the show.
Photo: Courtesy of Do Lab
Tampa-based Bay Stage Lighting used catalyst-controlled Versa tubes to light the stage at a Crown Imports event in Tucson, held to announce and promote the company's new name and logo.
Photo: Courtesy of Bay Stage Lighting
For the Beastie Boys' 2007 world tour, Los Angeles- and Lancaster, Pennsylvania-based production company Artfag created a Calder-inspired mobile with LED panels that displayed constantly changing images, including live camera feeds.
Photo: Courtesy of Artfag
For a banking firm's event at Peter White Studios in New York last spring, Pat "Caramel" Régné, owner of Caramel Sound, Music & Lights, used an LED wash to create the look of a night sky by placing LED tubes at the bottom of the wall.
Photo: Courtesy of Caramel Sound, Music & Lights
EventWorks produced a corporate event at the Sails Pavilion at the San Diego Convention Center and looked to Los Angeles's Kinetic Lighting to create projections to embellish the vast ceiling. Employing large-format projectors that use a film scroll, Kinetic crisply and seamlessly presented a changing display of images, including peppermints, sliced oranges, and flames.
Photo: Courtesy of Kinetic Lighting Inc.
Southern California-based company the Lighter Side projected a turquoise herringbone-like pattern onto the exterior of the Viceroy Hotel in Santa Monica for a fund-raiser for the Network of Executive Women in Hospitality in December 2006.
Photo: Courtesy of the Lighter Side
While Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum celebrated the launch of its Crystal Building, the adjacent Royal Conservatory of Music wanted to pretty up its construction project and intrigue passersby. Parallel Production Services turned to Chris Newkirk of Screamlab Inc. to create a one-night-only dynamic color treatment that gradually covered the building; varying solid tones and textural effects moved across the structure in a subtle repeating loop.
Photo: Chris Newkirk/Screamlab
Inspired by the artwork of Dan Flavin, Levy Lighting NYC designed this installation using golden fluorescent tubes to create a mysterious feel that guided guests at a corporate event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, from one part of the property to another.
Photo: Courtesy of Levy Lighting NYC
For a Hugo Boss fashion show at Cunard Hall, New York-based JKLD worked with Let There Be Neon to cover the ceiling of a lounge adjacent to the show with blue neon rectangles. JKLD's designers uplit the main hall with a medium chocolate-hued gel to give definition and shape to the room.
Photo: Image Capture
For a benefit for the New York Philharmonic, Bentley Meeker Lighting & Staging Inc. created an elegant ripple effect to complement the event's decor from Van Vliet & Trap, using a wrinkled glass gobo with hues of violet and lavender while dimmed white light shone on the tables.
Photo: Roger Dong
