Posts Tagged ‘tools’
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)
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)
Holiday Gift Guide for Vectorworks Users
December 18, 2012
Peter Neufeld is a stage lighting designer based in Sydney and a bit of a Vectorworks person. His website says a bit more about him: http://www.limelight.cc The phrase “Computer Aided Design” has such a ring to it doesn’t it?! In fact, one can happily bandy the acronym “CAD” around to [...]
2012 | Guest Blogger, Holiday Gift Guide | Tags: Lighting Design, set design, Television, Theatre, tools, VectorWorksComments (0)
Holiday Gift Guide for Lighting Designers-1
November 20, 2012
Stage Lighting Super Saturday is just around the corner. There is an early bird registration price, perfect for the Lighting Designers in your life holiday gifts. I’ll be speaking about Vectorworks, Ken Billington is Keynoting and Richard Pilbrow will be sharing his secrets. There is a full day of speakers and hands on experience with [...]
2012 | Architecture, The Studio, The Work, VectorWorks, VWX Spotlight and Design | Tags: KLAD, Lighting Design, Theatre, tools, TV, VectorWorksComments (0)
We’ve been too busy working with Vectorworks 2013 to write about Vectorworks 2013
November 12, 2012
It’s always exciting around here when Nemetschek Vectorworks announces a new release of our favorite set design and lighting design software. Of course, we’ve been beta testing that software and working with all of the great new features since May, but we can’t talk about the new tools until the software is announced. Well, now [...]
2012 | Television, The Studio, The Work, Theatre, VectorWorks | Tags: KLAD, Lighting Design, set design, Television, Theatre, tools, VectorWorksComments (0)
Pre-Visulization is Key. Vectorworks and Cinema 4D announce 2nd annual Rendering Competition
April 20, 2012
It has always been critical communication and story telling for set and lighting designers to communicate there ideas visually to directors, producers and other collaborators. When this communication was done fully or primarily in traditional media; sketches and physical models, that need was still critical. Now, we have new, and constantly evolving computer based tools [...]
2012 | Teaching, Television, The Studio, The Work, Theatre, VectorWorks, VWX Spotlight and Design | Tags: design, KLAD, lighting, NYC, set design, sets, Television, Theatre, tools, TV, VectorWorksComments (0)
Creating Textures for a Vectorworks Easter Egg
March 23, 2012
This is the third of three posts describing creating a scene and lighting design for an Easter Egg using Vectorworks. I guess it’s more a prop design, but it’s just an excuse to have some fun and maybe learn a few things along the way. This is also a great illustration of how easy it [...]
2012 | The Studio, The Work, VectorWorks, VWX Spotlight and Design | Tags: design, KLAD, lighting, Lighting Design, scenic design, set design, sets, Television, Theatre, tools, TV, VectorWorks, writingComments (0)
Lighting Design for a Vectorworks Easter Egg
March 21, 2012
This is the second installment of a lesson in scenic design and lighting design around creating, modeling, and rendering an Easter Egg using Vectorworks. If you are playing along at home, you need the first post in order to do this lesson. First, I have deleted the guides and selected the Egg object. I then [...]
2012 | The Studio, The Work, Theatre, VectorWorks, VWX Spotlight and Design | Tags: design, KLAD, learn, lighting, Lighting Design, scenic design, set design, sets, Television, Theatre, tools, TV, VectorWorksComments (0)
Book Review: “Enchantment” by Guy Kawasaki
March 15, 2011
Guy Kawasaki is a fascinating figure in 21st Century contemporary popular culture. His new book Enchantment only adds to his mystique. The author first appeared on my radar when he was the chief evangelist for the original Apple Macintosh computers. Kawasaki opens his latest book describing how he first became enchanted with the original, pre-release [...]
2011 | Book Review | Tags: set design, Television, Theatre, tools, TVComments (0)
Clocks, we love clocks.
December 9, 2010
Of course, one of the reasons we love clocks is the importance of time and deadlines in our lives and careers. This is some beautiful sculpture, but also a whole new paradigm for telling time. A new paradigm that would take some adjustment and learning. The Manifold Clock, by designers Shay Carmon and Ben Klinger [...]
2010 | Industrial Design | Tags: design, Inspiration, Modernism, set design, toolsComments (0)
The beauty (and importance) of Typography
April 29, 2010
Set Design is an assemblage of many different talents and skills. One of those required is the use of typography and calligraphy. Hats off to set and lighting designer Cris Dopher for calling attention to this blog post about type designer and calligrapher Richard Lipton. I had not heard of the publicity shy Richard Lipton, [...]
2010 | Television, The Work, Theatre | Tags: design, drawing, font, set design, Television, Theatre, tools, type, typographyComments (0)
Wow! Drawing on the iPad!
April 3, 2010
This could change the way site surveys and meeting are conducted! We’re used to passing pads around at meetings so thoughts can be expressed. Then someone takes the notes away to digitize and distribute. Well, if this experimental drawing package Freeform from Ember becomes an actual App, then the world will have been suitably changed. [...]
2010 | The Work, VectorWorks | Tags: Inspiration, iPad, set design, tools, VectorWorksComments (2)
A few good Vectorworks Downloads
February 28, 2010
For a long time we have had a section on the main site for downloads. The intent has always been to post some of our standard Vectorworks files like Default Stationery and Default Textures. Never got around to that. Until today. Nothing is ever perfect, especially files that need to continually evolve. So we hope [...]
2010 | Teaching, The Work, VectorWorks | Tags: design, designer, drawing, lighting, Lighting Design, scenic design, set design, Television, Theatre, tools, TV, VectorWorks, writingComments (0)
20 Years of Photoshopping
February 19, 2010
I haven’t been using Photoshop for 20 years, but close. My first version was 2.0. My friend Chris Klug suggested that Photosop and (then) Fractal Design Painter (now Corel Painter) would change the way I make art. He was right, as usual. Undo with an airbrush is an unbelievable technical advance. Of course, that does [...]
2010 | The Studio, VectorWorks | Tags: adobe, design, designer, drawing, paint, Photoshop, scenic design, set design, sets, signs, tools, VectorWorksComments (3)
36 Basic Vectorworks Classes
February 11, 2010
This is a follow-up to yesterday’s post about Vectorworks Layers. Now as then, I’ll put most of the nitty gritty after a break. If you’re interested in Vectorworks and speak the lingo, click through. If not, scroll down, there are (we like to think) lots of other interesting things to read and comment on, especially [...]
2010 | Television, Theatre, VectorWorks | Tags: Architecture, design, designer, drawing, lighting, Lighting Design, projection design, scenic design, set design, sets, Television, Theatre, tools, TV, VectorWorksComments (1)
8 Basic Vectorworks Layers
February 10, 2010
This post is based on a currently ongoing discussion on the Vectorworks Theatre Discussion e-Mailing List. I’m going to put most everything ‘below the fold’ here as if you’re not a Vectorworks user, the rest of the post might as well be written in an Alien language. Tweet
2010 | Teaching, Television, Theatre, VectorWorks | Tags: Architecture, designer, drawing, lighting, Lighting Design, projection design, scenic design, set design, sets, Television, Theatre, tools, TV, VectorWorksComments (0)
VectorNetWorking and everyday networking
December 9, 2009
Last night was the first meeting of the New Jersey Vectorworks Users group at the offices of Andrew Fethes Architects in Oradell, NJ (of course?!?!), a small NYC-like outpost in suburbia. Andrew and his associate Lisa Collins offered a great space and all the amenities for our gathering. One constant theme of the evening was [...]
2009 | Architecture, Teaching, Theatre, VectorWorks | Tags: ale, art, design, designer, KLAD, lighting, n, red, Theatre, tools, VectorWorksComments (2)
Fountain Pen Hospital Holiday Expo
November 19, 2009
More than a sale, this is an educational opportunity. We always try to go, but we are also sure to go as early in the day as possible. It will be crowded, but it will be the least crowded. Our tools are very important to us. We always try to use the best tools possible [...]
2009 | The Work | Tags: ale, design, KLAD, n, pens, toolsComments (0)
Vectorworks 2010 – WooHoo!
September 11, 2009
Ok, I’m a nerd, and always excited about new software, especially if I’ve been playing with the new toys, ah, ahem, testing the software for many months. I am especially looking forward to discussing/illustrating; Unified 3D views Decal Textures and improved texture mapping Blur Reflectivity Shaders for more realistic rendering Dimension Constraint Management Planar Graphics [...]
2009 | Teaching, Television, The Work, Theatre, VectorWorks | Tags: design, designer, drawing, Modernism, n, projection design, scenic design, tools, VectorWorksComments (4)
Book Review – “3D Modeling in Vectorworks 2009″
August 24, 2009
This week, I had the pleasure of reviewing Jonathan Pickup’s new volume “3D Modeling in Vectorworks 2009.” Jonathan, of Archoncad in New Zealand, is a world renown Vectorworks trainer and Guru. As a design practitioner and as a teacher, I work in the Building Information Model (BIM) format. That is to say that rather than [...]
2009 | Architecture, Teaching, Theatre, VectorWorks | Tags: Architecture, design, designer, drawing, KLAD, learn, lighting, Modernism, n, red, scenic design, tools, VectorWorksComments (0)
Another Project, Another Visit(s) to the shop…
June 22, 2009
We’re doing a project for a major pharmaceutical. They must go un-named, it is part of the contract. Limited budget, always shocking and a limited studio crew. Certainly no props or carpenters (actually a great crew, but we did not learn that until the load-in). No storage space, BUT they wanted a television news studio [...]
