Posts Tagged ‘design’

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June 5, 2013

Sweeeeeet. Time to design, time to play, with a perpetual calendar good for 87 years. We could probably retire by then. Gear Patrol introduced us to the A. Lange & Söhne 1815 Rattrapante Perpetual Calendar ($189,000 in rose gold, $213,000 in platinum) won’t need to be corrected until the year 2100 (only one in four [...]

2013 | Industrial Design, Inspiration | Tags: , Comments (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: , , , , , , , Comments (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: , , , , , , , , Comments (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: , , , , , , , , Comments (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: , , , , , , , , Comments (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: , , , , , , , , , , , , Comments (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: , , , , , , , , , , Comments (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: , , , , , , , , Comments (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: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Comments (0)
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Good, but sad nonetheless…

March 27, 2013

It was a movie theater, it was used for performance, now it’s a bookstore… in Buenos Aires. This ain’t no Barnes & Noble from out on the highway. The is El Ateneo Grand Splendid. This a temple to the power of the written word in much the way Scribner’s was in

2013 | Architecture, From the Road | Tags: , , , , Comments (0)
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Hot Location, Cool Hotel.

March 25, 2013

It’s not a Kimpton, but we’d stay at the The Saguaro Hotel in Palm Springs. These folks are not afraid of color, and the space seems to celebrate the desert, and Palm Springs Modernism. The Saguaro interior and exterior are a riot of bold color that pays homage to the swinging midcentury vibe of this desert [...]

2013 | Architecture, From the Road | Tags: , , , , , , , Comments (0)
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Been There, Done That

March 21, 2013

I bookmark things and keep them together as ideas I want to blog about. Of course, that file gets a bit messy and work always gets in the way of blogging. I looked through that file today and found this post by Modernus about And Bob’s Your Uncle Lighting. Some crazy, wonderful, fun stuff. What’s [...]

2013 | Fashion, Industrial Design | Tags: , , , , Comments (0)

Before there were color charts, or why we love Benjamin Moore

March 20, 2013

We first saw this scene watching the video of Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. Some time back, Design and Desire in the Twentieth Century posted this seminal clip. We bring it to you here. Before there were large paint companies, like Benjamin Moore, there were small, local paint manufacturers. Parr Paint was my local [...]

2013 | Architecture, Design Basics, The Work | Tags: , , , , , , Comments (0)
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Entertainment Design: Scenic, Lighting, and Sound, with Vectorworks 2013 has arrived!

March 12, 2013

Actually, it arrived a couple of weeks ago, but we’ve been too busy designing to take a breath and really start to talk about the new book. Second Edition, expanded to cover the new features in Vectorworks Spotlight 2013, including an section on Sound Design. This books is over 40 pages longer than the first [...]

2013 | The Studio, VectorWorks, VWX Spotlight and Design | Tags: , , , , , Comments (0)
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The Elixir of Design

March 8, 2013

Well, one of them. Scotch is required as well, but the day starts and the creative juices of set and lighting designers begin to flow with the application of coffee. Good coffee, not that crap from a national chain or a diner. With all due respect to diners. Now, we’re coffee snobs, we travel with [...]

2013 | Gastronauting, The Studio, The Work, VectorWorks | Tags: , , , , , Comments (0)
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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: , , , , Comments (1)
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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: , , , , , , Comments (0)
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The New York Subway 1971-73

January 16, 2013

New York’s subway system is one of the most infuriating wonders of the modern world. Even though many of the trains in the system has been modernized, often, irritations of the past are still with us. In the summer the stations can melt your face off, trains run late if at all. Forget getting a [...]

2013 | From the Road, Industrial Design | Tags: , , Comments (0)
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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: , , , , Comments (0)
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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: , , , , , Comments (0)
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Jaw Dropping Design, perhaps not for the purist

January 9, 2013

Recently discovered a series of posts entitled Jaw Dropping Design. We do not, of course, agree with every opinion. Or each other, from time to time. As designers, that’s our prerogative. I kind of love this, but I often refer Hot Rods to the originals. We have done some vehicle customization, and one day we’ll [...]

2013 | Inspiration | Tags: , , , Comments (0)
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Vintage Office Supplies!

January 7, 2013

The family fortune was made and lost in the typewriter and stationery business, Maybe that’s why we love this stuff. It’s certainly ancillary to the set and lighting design business, and now so much is antiquated, but still. We do need some of these items from time to time, but paperless is the way we [...]

2013 | Industrial Design, Inspiration | Tags: , , , , , Comments (1)
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Do we need this?

January 2, 2013

The Micro-Scooter Luggage was developed with Samsonite, but really? Is this gear for a set designer or a lighting designer? Well, maybe. I can see using it to zoom around a film studio complex with my laptop secure, along with material samples, gel books and other heavy stuff. You can read about it here. If [...]

2013 | From the Road, The Studio | Tags: , , Comments (0)
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aaah, New Year’s Eve…

December 31, 2012

  of course, there should be some sparkle in every evening. May 2013 sparkle and shine for everyone. Tweet

2012 | Art for Art's Sake, Fashion, The Work | Tags: , , , , , , Comments (0)
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Scare away the demons…

December 25, 2012

Not sure where or when we heard this legend, but it’s a good one, so we indulge. We do like to indulge. It is said that there should be a devil on every tree, to scare away the demons and welcome the good. This is ours. Tweet

2012 | Art for Art's Sake, The Work | Tags: , , , , , , Comments (0)
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Holiday Gift Guide: A Little Something Playful

December 21, 2012

By Frank Brault, Guest Blogger Frank Brault serves as an industry product specialist at Nemetschek Vectorworks, developing curriculum for software education and promoting best practices in teaching the Vectorworks® software. He also writes the software’s Getting Started Guides tutorials. Frank has more than 30 years of experience in theater and lighting design, software development, and training. [...]

2012 | Guest Blogger, Holiday Gift Guide | Tags: , , , Comments (0)
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Holiday Gift Guide – Jewelry for Designers (and others)

December 19, 2012

This is not a guest blog post, but thanks to the unnamed, former stage manager, and now theatrical General Manager, with whom I once (and maybe future) worked. Actually, more than once. And I suppose these are most likely for theatrical and film designers, probably not fashion or graphic designers. And travelers of all stripes. [...]

2012 | Holiday Gift Guide | Tags: , , , , , , Comments (0)
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Holiday Gift Guide for Costume Designers

November 28, 2012

by Rachel Guilfoyle, Guest Blogger RACHEL GUILFOYLE, Costume Designer- NYC: Broadway Bares: Masterpiece and Happy Endings (Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS); Ragtime, A Little Night Music (Manhattan School of Music); Blood, Dancing at Lunacy (The Cell); Year of the Rooster, Big Tex (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Antinous (La MaMa E.T.C.); The Legend of Julie Taymor (FringeNYC ’11, Encore Selection); Proof, The Crucible, Romeo & Juliet (Sink or Swim Rep). Regional: Barefoot In The Park, I Love [...]

2012 | Design Basics, Guest Blogger, Holiday Gift Guide, Inspiration | Tags: , , , Comments (0)
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Holiday Gift Guide for Set Designers-1

November 24, 2012

Not just set designers, I suppose, perhaps some lighting designers, even some costume designers. These are mostly drawing/drafting aids, less so for free hand drawing, but certainly useful for some freehand drawing. We don’t need an Acu-Arc, we have one. Although I imagine they are increasingly difficult to find, so maybe a spare. This is [...]

2012 | Design Basics, The Studio, The Work, VectorWorks, VWX Spotlight and Design | Tags: , , , , , , Comments (0)
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Vectorworks 2013is now en Español!

November 19, 2012

Nemetschek Vectorworks has announced the release of the Spanish-language version of Vectorworks 2013 Designer, Architect, Landmark, Spotlight, Fundamentals and Renderworks. The Spanish-language version will be available throughout the Americas, the Caribbean and Spain. A press release with more information is here. There is also an online event today highlighting the new features of Vectorworks 2013, [...]

2012 | The Studio, VectorWorks | Tags: , , , , , , Comments (0)
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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: , , , , , Comments (1)
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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: , , , , Comments (0)
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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: , , , , , , , Comments (0)
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Seems a little over the top…

October 5, 2012

…but then we’re generally non-violent. Tweet

2012 | Humor | Tags: , , Comments (0)
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