This year marks the 9th KOI Awards, which celebrates the creative talents of international lighting and digital content designers working in the UK in the sectors of TV, Theatre and Concert Touring and Events. The 2016 edition will see the event moved from its usual date in early October to the 18th September to coincide with the PLASA London 2016 exhibition. The venue for the sparkling awards...
Liz West: “Your Color Perception at Manchester Science Festival” “This year’s Manchester Science Festival Salford University’s Allerton Studios will be transformed by artist Liz West into a sensory, visceral experience through an overload of artificial chromatic light.Using the gallery as a laboratory West tested the influence and perception of luminous colour in architectural space and on...
New app from LEE Filters! The new Diffusion Comparator App is now live for Apple and Android devices. All the great features from our side by side diffusion video*, now in an interactive version you can access on the go! The comparator is built from video clips of a real world lighting setup using a single M8 source and each and every diffusion in the LEE range. By switching between them you’ll...
Equity claims to be “the only organisation able to work with managers to improve stage directors’ and designers’ pay and conditions of work”. Despite our members sitting on various Designers' committee in the last 15 years, there has been no discernable increase in minimum fees for lighting desgners in UK theatre, despite a huge change in the way that we work.
The Knight of Illumination Awards (KOI) TV judging panel has announced its eagerly anticipated shortlist for this year's ceremony, which will take place at London's glamorous Troxy club on Sunday 4th October.
The Knight of Illumination Awards (KOI) Theatre judging panel has announced its eagerly anticipated shortlist for this year's ceremony, which will take place at London's glamorous Troxy club on Sunday 4th October.
New Video from LEE Filters! Director of Photography Don McVey and Kieron Jansch from Manned Camera tested every #LEEFilters Diffusion gel over two days with a single M8 HMI camera comparing the effects of each. For a full blog of his test, click HERE!
LEE Filters recently sponsored an event held by the IALD (International Association of Lighting Designers) in Manchester, England in support of Liz West who discussed her work as an artist using colour and light, specifically using LEE Filters gel in many of her works of art! Liz’s talk inspired Lighting Designers to think of colour in a new way. It was a packed house, and an incredibly successful...
“Your Colour Perception”- Liz West Site-specific Installation (T8 fluorescent bulbs, LEE Filters gels) “Your Colour Perception” incorporated all 5000 square feet of Castlefield Gallery’s New Art Spaces Federation House fourth floor in Manchester. The work was developed in direct response to the space prior. West reacted to the architectural space using colour and light to create vast immersive...
New Dimming Feature available on Leefilters.com! We’ve added a new feature to our Lighting Website! Now when you click your colour choice(s), you will now find a dimming preview under the spectral curve information. This will help to give you an idea of how the colour will change when the light source is dimmed. This feature is also available on the LEE Swatch App. Looking to download the app...