Anyone wondering how, under the current conditions, new products can be launched in an effective way within the media, need look no further than Audi. For the presentation of the new e-tron GT, the Ingolstadt-based car manufacturer staged a special kind of demonstration at the Munich Zenith. The world premiere of the ‘electric spearhead of the four rings’, as it was termed, took place on 9 th...
The Ehrlich Brothers, Europe’s most famous illusionists, should have recorded their ‘Dream & Fly’ show for DVD and TV in March 2020. Everything was already set up in Munich when production was prohibited by an order from the Bavarian state. But the Ehrlich Brothers would not be the Ehrlich Brothers if they simply left it at that. And so Andreas and Chris Ehrlich started planning the two part TV...
Shoreline City Church’s Christmas Eve celebration at the American Airlines Center (AAC) in Dallas, TX, provided an auspicious occasion for Houston-based lighting and production design company, Visual Edge Lighting and GLP’s classic impression X4, provided by Upstaging. The Church had wanted to bring their congregation together in a safe way, and by using a huge space like the AAC they were able to...
The German Sustainability Prize ( Nachhaltigkeitspreis) has been awarded by the Nachhaltigkeitspreis Foundation for the past 13 years, in cooperation with the country’s Federal Government and several public and civil society institutions. Outstanding sustainability achievements in business, municipalities, and research are awarded in several categories. On 3 & 4 December 2020, the prizes were...
Production designer Frédéric ‘Aldo’ Fayard (of Concept K) deployed FUSION by GLP FS20 Sticks for the first time—and to great effect—when lighting the recent ISL (International Swimming League) event in Budapest, Hungary. Born from the initiative of Ukrainian businessman Konstantin Grigorishin, the event features 10 teams of 28 swimmers, who take part in a knockout competition, culminating in two...
In a summer that saw hardly any live shows, Landstreicher Konzert GmbH set an example with their corona compliant series of Picnic Concerts in several German cities. Singer songwriter Lea was one of the artists who performed during the concert series, with lighting designer Maximilian Gräf from PE Lichtdesign using 20 KNV Line from GLP to bring a breath of fresh air to the existing tour design...
Global design firm, DX7 Design, recently embarked on its second season of lighting the hit American TV dance competition Dancing With The Stars, shot at CBS Television City in Hollywood, California. Production loaded in at the end of August and the show runs for 11 weeks, culminating in the final over Thanksgiving weekend, at the end of November. After featuring GLP fixtures heavily on the last...
With this year’s Summer Night Concert, an event that has been taking place since 2004, the Vienna Philharmonic wanted to send a signal of hope in the year of coronavirus. As a result, the concert went ahead—albeit with a small number of spectators on site—as a live broadcast event on the TV channels ORF2 and 3SAT. The concert production itself, under the direction of Valery Gergiev, and featuring...
The annual Amadeus Austrian Music Awards are the country’s most important music awards, presented for excellence in the Austrian music industry. Since the year 2000, the most successful national artists have been accoladed in various categories. The ceremony traditionally takes place in front of an audience at Vienna’s Volkstheater and is broadcast on ORF, but the pandemic caused it to be...
GLP’s pioneering new KNV series has been used for the first time in Italy, on two high profile broadcast TV shows. The first of these was Radionorba Vodafone Battiti Live, where DoP Massimo Pascucci, featured a large selection of KNV Cube, KNV Dot and KNV Line in the scenography, working alongside set designer Luigi Maresca and show director, Luigi Antonini. This popular musical show is produced...