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Student Design Competition Resource – On Stage Lighting’s Spotlight Tutorials

Hey Students, Looking for some help on your design project for the Student Design Competition? A good friend, educator, designer and fellow blogger, Rob Sayer from On Stage Lighting has put together a great series of screen cast to help guide you through the design process with Vectorworks Spotlight.  Albeit 2010, many of the examples [...]

Hemsley Internship in Lighting 2011

The Hemsley Lighting Programs has announced that the open call for applicants to the 2011 internship program has begun. The Hemsley internship is open to Bachelor and Masters of Fine Arts graduates in lighting design (current students are not accepted). Applications for the 28th annual Hemsley Internship Program with the Lincoln Center Festival, the New [...]

The Student Design Competition is Officially OPEN

Yup, it is January 28th.  That means that the student design competition is open!  While the competition just started, I don’t expect many students to start submitting their design work right now.  I highly recommend taking your time, you have almost all of spring semester!  Heck, the competition doesn’t close until April 15th.  That doesn’t [...]

Benghiat Lighting Releases Savvy Symbol Key Plug-in for Vectorworks

Check it out all you Vectorheads, Joshua Benghiat has release another plug-in tool for Vectorworks called Savvy Symbol Key.  No, by using the Savvy Symbol Key you don’t automatically gain coolness points or extra savvyness, but you will work smarter. The Savvy Symbol Key plug-in object quickly creates an accurate, customizable key to instrumentation.  The [...]

The Need For Sustainable Lighting Design for the Performing Arts

No artist, no creator can endeavor to continue their craft knowing they are contributing to the end of all things.

The Living Christmas Tree – Riverdale Baptist Church

I love the holiday season! The cold crisp air, the festive mood that everyone is in and of course the LIGHTS! driving down my block each night coming home is always a treat to see the houses lite up to celebrate the season.  Then there are the houses that put their lights to music and [...]

Cast Software Releases WYSIWGY R26 TOMORROW, 12/15/2010

Get your previsualization self ready.  Cast Software is preparing to release WYSIWYG R26 tomorrow, December 15, 2010!  If you are already a member, you can head over to the Members Only section of Cast Software’s web site and get it now! More from Cast Software: wysiwyg R26 is really virtually real, and this is a [...]

Events: Super Saturday – Save Even MORE on Registration

Are you on the right coast?  Drop all your plans January 22nd and head to New York, IT’S SUPER SATURDAY! No, it is not the Super Bowl, or the Super Heavy Weight Fight of the Year, it’s the Saturday when Lighting Designers, Professionals and enthuses come together to talk, share, learn and celebrate the best [...]

Review: Field Templates RULES! English Metric & Striplight Placemat Templates

People say that the old world charms are losing out to technology in this day and age of computers and the internet. It is faster and easy these days to shoot off a quick email, text or tweet to a person to say thank you or convey a message. What use to be the standard [...]

Deal-O-Rama: Purchase Vectorworks 2011 & Get 50% off Vectorworks Service Select

Be your own success story Whether you’re making the switch from hand drawing to 2D/3D or a BIM solution, Vectorworks wants to make sure you get the training and support you need to get “ramped up” with Vectorworks. Adding Vectorworks Service Select to your Vectorworks 2011 purchase is the best way to get acquainted with [...]

Light-O-Rama for Christmas

You’ve seen the Youtube videos of those fantastic front yard displays of Christmas lights dancing to Trans Siberian Orchestra and Mannheim Steamroller, right? No? I’ll wait while you watch. The cool thing about these displays is that most of them were created by your average Joe using a system called Light-O-Rama. I had heard of it in the past, [...]

Thomas Hase Describes Using Rosco Gel and LEDs

LEDs and gel, who would have thought about that?  typically when we think LEDs we neglect our old trustworthy and reliable friends, the gel color.  LEDs have color changing abilities right in them, whether that be an RGB, RGBA, RGBW or any other combination of different colored LEDs to change colors right in the fixture. [...]