Posts Tagged ‘Architecture’
Referencing Vectorworks files for collaboration.
June 5, 2013
Justin Lange, editor at Projection Lights and Staging News invited Kevin to blog at Pro Lighting Space, Justin’s go to site for professional lighting designers, and lighting technicians. Thanks to Justin, and Pro Lighting Space, I am cross posting Kevin’s blog entries here. Referencing Vectorworks files for collaboration. Referencing is a great way for a team [...]
2013 | Architecture, Design Basics, Teaching, VectorWorks, VWX Spotlight and Design | Tags: Architecture, drawing, learn, lighting, Lighting Design, research, tools, VectorWorks, writingComments (0)
Classes, You Can Never Have Too Many Vectorworks Classes
June 3, 2013
Justin Lange, editor at Projection Lights and Staging News invited Kevin to blog at Pro Lighting Space, Justin’s go to site for professional lighting designers, and lighting technicians. Thanks to Justin, and Pro Lighting Space, I am cross posting Kevin’s blog entries here. Classes, You Can Never Have Too Many Vectorworks Classes Some of my friends [...]
2013 | Design Basics, Teaching, VectorWorks, VWX Spotlight and Design | Tags: Architecture, design, drawing, learn, lighting, Lighting Design, VectorWorks, writingComments (0)
Layers, I do like me some Vectorworks Layers
May 30, 2013
Justin Lange, editor at Projection Lights and Staging News invited Kevin to blog at Pro Lighting Space, Justin’s go to site for professional lighting designers, and lighting technicians. Thanks to Justin, and Pro Lighting Space, I am cross posting Kevin’s blog entries here. Layers, I do like me some Vectorworks Layers Layers are like sheets of [...]
2013 | Architecture, Design Basics, Teaching, VectorWorks, VWX Spotlight and Design | Tags: Architecture, design, drawing, learn, lighting, Lighting Design, tools, VectorWorks, writingComments (0)
Your World, Reimagined, a Design Competition Using Vectorworks
May 28, 2013
Justin Lange, editor at Projection Lights and Staging News invited Kevin to blog at Pro Lighting Space, Justin’s go to site for professional lighting designers, and lighting technicians. Thanks to Justin, and Pro Lighting Space, I am cross posting Kevin’s blog entries here. Your World, Reimagined, a design competition using Vectorworks One of the things [...]
2013 | Architecture, Design Basics, Events, Teaching, VectorWorks, VWX Spotlight and Design | Tags: Architecture, design, drawing, learn, lighting, Lighting Design, tools, VectorWorks, writingComments (0)
What’s inside a Spotlight Lighting Device-Part 1
May 24, 2013
Justin Lange, editor at Projection Lights and Staging News invited Kevin to blog at Pro Lighting Space, Justin’s go to site for professional lighting designers, and lighting technicians. Thanks to Justin, and Pro Lighting Space, I am cross posting Kevin’s blog entries here. What’s inside a Spotlight Lighting Device-Part 1 Well, a lot really, but here’s one [...]
2013 | Design Basics, Teaching, VectorWorks, VWX Spotlight and Design | Tags: Architecture, design, drawing, learn, lighting, Lighting Design, tools, VectorWorks, writingComments (0)
A Striking Visual History of New York City
April 30, 2013
I came across an article by the Associated Press announcing the release of an amazing photo database of 870,000 photos of New York City from the mid 1800’s through the late 20th century. No one, two or twenty photographers could ever shoot a collection as vast and varied as this, but anonymous municipal workers did, [...]
2013 | Architecture, Events, From the Road, Industrial Design | Tags: adventures, Architecture, art, environment, museum, researchComments (0)
86th St. Cavern
April 23, 2013
The MTA has released a series of photographs by Patrick Cashin chronicling the artificial caves that the 2nd Ave. subway will travel through. There have been problems with this subway line construction, and many people have grown irate over the project, but here I want to focus on the marvels and challenges faced in these caverns. Today [...]
2013 | Architecture, Events, From the Road | Tags: adventures, ArchitectureComments (0)
Putting the pieces together
April 12, 2013
Justin Lange, editor at Projection Lights and Staging News invited Kevin to blog at Pro Lighting Space, Justin’s go to site for professional lighting designers, and lighting technicians. Thanks to Justin, and Pro Lighting Space, I am cross posting Kevin’s blog entries here. Putting the pieces together Over the past few weeks, I’ve mentioned, in the [...]
2013 | Architecture, Design Basics, Teaching, Theatre, VectorWorks, VWX Spotlight and Design | Tags: Architecture, design, drawing, KLAD, learn, lighting, Lighting Design, scenic design, set design, Theatre, tools, VectorWorks, writingComments (0)
Vectorworks Spotlight Lighting Device Preferences
April 1, 2013
Justin Lange, editor at Projection Lights and Staging News invited Kevin to blog at Pro Lighting Space, Justin’s go to site for professional lighting designers, and lighting technicians. Thanks to Justin, and Pro Lighting Space, I am cross posting Kevin’s blog entries here. Vectorworks Spotlight Lighting Device Preferences So you have a Rep Plot and [...]
2013 | Architecture, Teaching, VectorWorks, VWX Spotlight and Design | Tags: Architecture, design, drawing, KLAD, learn, lighting, Lighting Design, scenic design, set design, tools, VectorWorksComments (0)
Oh, How I Hate DXF Files and How To Make Them Suck Less
March 29, 2013
Justin Lange, editor at Projection Lights and Staging News invited Kevin to blog at Pro Lighting Space, Justin’s go to site for professional lighting designers, and lighting technicians. Thanks to Justin, and Pro Lighting Space, I am cross posting Kevin’s blog entries here. Oh, How I Hate DXF files and How To Make Them Suck [...]
2013 | Architecture, Teaching, VectorWorks, VWX Spotlight and Design | Tags: Architecture, design, drawing, learn, lighting, Lighting Design, scenic design, set design, VectorWorksComments (0)
A Great Way to Learn Vectorworks
March 28, 2013
A Great Way to Learn Vectorworks This is shameless self promotion, but I wouldn’t do that if I didn’t think it would help people. Last Week, Nemetschek Vectorworks announced the publication of the second edition of my book:Entertainment Design; Scenic, Lighting and Sound, with Vectorworks Spotlight 2013. Second Edition. This volume is about 40 pages longer than [...]
2013 | Architecture, Design Basics, Teaching, VectorWorks, VWX Spotlight and Design | Tags: Architecture, design, designer, drawing, KLAD, learn, lighting, Lighting Design, research, scenic design, set design, sets, Television, Theatre, tools, TV, VectorWorks, writingComments (0)
Some designers are just crazy
February 6, 2013
or maybe ignorant, despite years of education and practice. As Lighting Designers, we should agree here, but as designers, we just don’t think you can reject most of the elements of design. Sorry. Saw this piece at Dezeen this morning. Then tossed it off and had to go hunting for the post in order to [...]
2013 | Architecture, set design critique | Tags: Architecture, design, designer, KLAD, Lighting DesignComments (1)
After Sandy: Jet Star Roller Coaster – Seaside Heights, NJ
January 22, 2013
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The Tragic Beauty of Abandoned Urban Landscapes
January 18, 2013
Sander Meisner, a photographer who lives in Amsterdam brilliantly captures the interplay of light, shadow and color, breathing life into the often overlooked tragic beauty of abandoned, decaying urban industrial landscapes. Tweet
2013 | Architecture, Industrial Design, Inspiration | Tags: adventures, Architecture, art, color, design, environment, lightingComments (0)
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II
January 15, 2013
We visited a similar structure in Rome. Clearly this is neither The Mall at Short Hills or Dadeland. Yes it is an enclosed retail experience, but the comparison ends there. The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan is a covered double arcade formed of two glass-vaulted arcades at right angles intersecting at an octagon. The [...]
2013 | Architecture, Inspiration | Tags: Architecture, design, Inspiration, Lighting Design, set designComments (0)
A London Must See
January 11, 2013
When in Rome… well, when in London, one must experience the Bard as close to the original as possible. Here’s a way to experience the original set and lighting design. Trey Ratcliff lives a strange, unplanned, and unexpected life of photography and adventure. He blogs about that life and his stunning HDRI photography here. According to [...]
2013 | Art for Art's Sake, From the Road, Theatre | Tags: adventures, Architecture, Lighting Design, set design, VectorWorksComments (0)
We’ve done this, differently, but…
January 10, 2013
Another Jaw Dropping Design, similar in concept to a retail store design we created on Broadway. We have to love the modernist appeal and simplicity of the interior of the Albert Reichmuth Wine Store in Zurich. A design that makes complete sense and captures the product. The Swiss design firm OOS created the interior. Apparently the [...]
2013 | Architecture, Inspiration, Restaurant Design, set design critique | Tags: Architecture, design, drinks, Inspiration, set design, TheatreComments (0)
Fading Memories of a Bygone Era
November 14, 2012
If you’ve spent time in New York, or almost any old industrial city, you’ve probably seen some ghost signs. Glimpses of the past, when women wore corsets, blacksmiths welded carriages, and Coca Cola was sold everywhere for 5 cents ( there’s no cent symbol on my keyboard, another relic of the past, I guess). These signs [...]
2012 | Architecture, From the Road, Industrial Design, Uncategorized | Tags: adventures, Architecture, art, design, environment, InspirationComments (1)
We’re all about Elegance, but…
November 10, 2012
Sometimes a streetscape needs to be funky and fun. Public art or set design on the street. Maybe it has something to do with national capitals, or in the case of New York City; World Capitals. I recently saw this image on the London Daily Photo Blog. Who wouldn’t want to hang around in this [...]
2012 | Architecture, Inspiration, Theatre | Tags: adventures, Architecture, design, research, set designComments (0)
The Master…
October 13, 2012
Yes, Frank Lloyd Wright was a genius, his building Marvel and Inspire. He was also a fashion plate. But the renderings, no matter who actually did them… Tweet
2012 | Architecture, Inspiration | Tags: Architecture, design, elegant, Inspiration, KLAD, Modernism, scenic design, set designComments (0)
A Beau-Arts Masterpiece for the 21st Century
August 27, 2012
When Union Station was designed by Daniel Burnham in 1907, the country was experiencing unprecedented growth in train travel. The elegant Beaux-Arts station quickly gained status as one of the busiest, most important rail stations in the world. After its busiest years during World War II, Union Station fell victim to the passage of time [...]
2012 | Architecture, From the Road, Inspiration | Tags: adventures, Architecture, elegant, environment, green, Modernism, researchComments (0)
Modern, Elegant, and Fun!
August 23, 2012
What is it about Brazil and set design inspiration? Architect Marcio Kogan’s Studio MK27 designed the V4 house in São Paulo and we could move right in. Great horizontal lines, open, airy, elegant. Beautiful woods and pops of fun color. Could be a perfect film location. See more images at The Contemporist. The home has also [...]
2012 | Architecture, Inspiration, VectorWorks | Tags: Architecture, Inspiration, Modernism, scenic design, set designComments (0)
The Black Eggs Project
August 10, 2012
Nature + Technology + Art = Amazing levitating Buddha I am in awe of all the wonderfulness in the world. From Inhabitant: Situated in a 6,000-square-foot pond at Eindhoven’s University of Technology, Vermeulen’s eggs generate solar power that is converted into a magnetic field. The magnetic field makes a Buddha figure, which is encased in a [...]
2012 | Architecture, Industrial Design, Inspiration | Tags: adventures, Architecture, elegant, environment, green, happiness, Inspiration, researchComments (0)
Cool Tool for the Traveling Set Designer
August 2, 2012
Our KLAD studio is tricked out with the tools a set designer in the 21st century needs to be on top of the game. However, no matter how great Skype is, or how much the internet helps streamline research, or how powerful Vectorworks is, we still have to take our show on the road. We [...]
2012 | Architecture, From the Road, Industrial Design, The Studio, Theatre, VectorWorks | Tags: Architecture, design, designer, drawing, Inspiration, KLAD, scenic design, set design, Theatre, VectorWorksComments (0)
Norm’s
July 3, 2012
Our friend Dave Cobb of the Thinkwell Group went to brunch yesterday at Norm’s. Of course, he tweeted a photo of the fabulous Norm’s signage. Brilliant, real-life set design. We wrote a little of Norm’s here and more about roadside architecture here. By ‘we’ I of course mean Kathleen. We both love iconic and original [...]
2012 | Architecture, From the Road, Gastronauting, Restaurant Design | Tags: adventures, Architecture, design, lighting, Modernism, set designComments (0)
Does Design Have To Work?
June 8, 2012
“Designers are artists of real issues. We are not creating art by any means, art is a selfish act and design is a social act.” -unknown. I’ve been contemplating this quote for quite a while. When I first read it, I was a bit put off. I make my living by design, and there’s always [...]
2012 | Architecture, Design Basics, Industrial Design, set design critique | Tags: adventures, Architecture, art, design, designer, environmentComments (0)
KLAD’s Pop-Up Progress
June 5, 2012
Our Times Square pop-up installation is cruising along, we’re putting on the finishing touches and developing our production/installation schedule. Here’s a rough floor plan and a doctored rendering, I did some really bad photoshop on the rendering so that I can unveil the project in the coming weeks. Anyone care to take a guess on what [...]
2012 | Architecture, Events, The Studio, The Work, Theatre, VectorWorks, VWX Spotlight and Design | Tags: adventures, Architecture, color, design, drawing, KLAD, lighting, Lighting Design, scenic design, set design, Theatre, VectorWorksComments (0)
KLAD’s Latest Pop up – It’s all Set Design
May 15, 2012
We’re really excited about one of our latest projects - a pop-up in Times Square. Its happening very soon, so keep checking back, I’ll be posting photos of the process and progress. Here’s the shot of the raw space, taken during our first meeting and initial site survey. Tweet
2012 | Architecture, The Studio, The Work, Theatre, VectorWorks | Tags: adventures, Architecture, color, design, designer, drawing, KLAD, Lighting Design, scenic design, set design, sets, TheatreComments (0)
Light Dancing – Natural Light Plays on Modern
May 10, 2012
Here at KLAD we often use specific lighting instruments, gobos, and gels to design lighting for our set design projects. Here, a series of cantilevers and recesses create a rhythm for nature’s lights to show off pattern shadows on a modern home designed by architect David Jameson. The series of cubes, with frameless windows and edges of the flat roof that [...]
2012 | Architecture, Inspiration | Tags: Architecture, art, design, elegant, environment, lighting, Lighting Design, ModernismComments (1)
Kitchen Design is always Set Design, but this one, or these, especially…
April 17, 2012
Well, of course, every kitchen is a set, and every kitchen requires great lighting, ideally real and artificial. In this case, just artificial. Like most all of our projects, we can’t discuss the client or the use until long after the work has been built, filmed, edited, and aired. At least for film and television. [...]
2012 | Television, The Work, VectorWorks | Tags: Architecture, design, green, Happy Hour, KLAD, lighting, Lighting Design, Modernism, scenic design, set design, sets, VectorWorksComments (0)
Line, Form, Mass, we love dramatic design
April 13, 2012
As set designers and modernists, we love the dramatic use of the elements of design. We love to force or fool the eye. It’s part of the job, making a space feel differently than it really is to the eye, or the camera, or both. Unlike architects who HAVE to deal with the sun we [...]
2012 | Television, The Studio, The Work, Theatre | Tags: Architecture, design, KLAD, Lighting Design, Modernism, scenic design, set design, Television, TheatreComments (0)
I remember when MiMo didn’t have a name…
April 3, 2012
…it was just architecture, or more directly, and simply, the buildings. Not even that really, as I didn’t yet have a set designer’s vocabulary or a lighting designer’s appreciation for the way the sun, and neon lit the sculpted facades. Well, maybe the neon, who doesn’t love neon. These are the things that make up [...]
2012 | Architecture, From the Road, Inspiration | Tags: adventures, Architecture, color, colour, design, designer, KLAD, Lighting Design, Modernism, set designComments (0)
Times Square at Night 1957
March 30, 2012
As usual, Kirsten Hively, of Project Neon fame, posts a link to feed my signage fetish. This silent 16mm home movie footage of Times Square at Night was shot in 1957. JohnMeyer77 posted this on his You Tube channel. From his description: I used motion stabilization software to remove the shake from the hand-held footage. This [...]
2012 | Architecture, Film, Inspiration | Tags: adventures, Architecture, art, color, design, Inspiration, neon, signsComments (1)
Vectorworks Creative Minds Monthly Design Competition
March 28, 2012
Nemetschek Vectorworks has announced their Creative Minds competition that challenges designers, including and especially set designers and lighting designers, to explore multiple options for documenting and presenting your response to a design concept. Each month’s concept can be answered with ANY kind of design response – architectural design, product design, landscape design, entertainment design, or [...]
2012 | Architecture, Theatre of Games, VectorWorks, VWX Spotlight and Design | Tags: Architecture, art, design, environment, green, KLAD, lighting, Modernism, scenic design, set design, VectorWorksComments (0)
Extremely Cool Architecture Rehab and Reuse
March 7, 2012
Perfect as film Production Design, great spaces and a beautiful mix of textures. London architects Project Orange have added two stories to the roof of a Victorian brick warehouse in Sheffield, London, UK, that looks like another building, contemporary, stacked on top. The vertical expansion replaces a pitched roof, and creates three duplex studio offices within [...]
