Headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, Fielmann AG is the European market leader for ophthalmic optics, with 780 branches spread throughout Germany and Europe. In July this year, the company invited its shareholders to attend its annual general meeting. However, due to the coronavirus pandemic, this took place virtually, without the physical presence of the shareholders. The stage was set up at the...
Isagenix held its annual flagship ‘experience’, Celebration 2020, earlier this year at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre. The motivational presentation featured a series of powerful training sessions over the three days, with concert style technical production providing the backdrop and the wow factor. Executing agency, CG Creative, tasked LD Paul Whitby and Novatech Creative Event...
Grammy nominated and contemporary Christian singer Lauren Daigle was 10 dates into an arena tour when COVID-19 forced its temporary suspension. It was her first collaboration with the lighting partnership of Seth Jackson and Nathan Alves (of Darkroom Creative), and easily her biggest production tour to date. The arena setting allowed the two men to create a partial rolling stage, giving the design...
More commonly known by her stage name, Izïa, Izïa Higelin is the rock star daughter of 70s pop legend Jacques Higelin. The Senegal born actress and musician recently completed a 24 date French tour on the back of her new album, Citadelle. It took an inspired deployment of GLP’s mighty X4 atom, with its tiny form factor, by the artist’s LD, Jordan Magnée, to provide an imaginative backdrop. The...
Supermodel Heidi Klum spent from the end of January to mid May 2020 searching for Germany’s next top model. She found what she was looking for in the form of Jacqueline Wruck, when the grand final of the popular TV program “Germany’s Next Topmodel” was held at Studio Berlin Adlershof (minus the audience). LD Manuel da Costa and his team from mdc licht.gestalten were responsible for the lighting...
GLP are launching a new series of short form, fun and informative interview videos with lighting designers from around the industry. The series will see videos released on a weekly basis with different designers facing the same 10 questions. Covering their career starts, their career highs and some of the moments they would rather forget. Partly informative, partly inspirational, and partly...
In March and April 2020, German TV network ProSieben broadcast the second season of the TV show “The Masked Singer” (TMS), in which celebrities compete against one another with vocal performances, clad in imaginative full body costumes. Whoever receives the fewest votes per show must remove the mask and disclose their identity. In the meantime, the jurors, Ruth Moschner and Rea Garvey, along with...
From a base in producing both original music and remixes a decade ago, Canadian electronic music duo Zeds Dead branched out to explore a vast range of genres including UK garage, electro house, hip hop, drum and bass and more. Now a staple on the international touring circuit, such diversity poses many challenges for the lighting team, led by production designer Erik Mahowald (of Bending Lite...
Australian alternative dance trio, RÜFÜS DU SOL, have been steadily building their reputation over the past decade. Masterminding the lighting on their tours since 2014—respectively in support of the albums Atlas, Bloom, Solace, and now Live From Joshua Tree—has been Matthew Smith from Melbourne based Colourblind. As part of the Solace album tour, the band had appeared at CRSSD Festival in San...
From mid-February to early March 2020, German Canadian singer Alice Merton was on the road to promote her long awaited debut album MINT +4. Merton, who had already caused an international sensation with the song No Roots back in 2016, and is also known in Germany as a jury member of the popular TV show The Voice of Germany. Her MINT +4 tour took the artist to Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria...