Problem/Solution: High-Tech Design, Low Budget For MTV’s ESL

Live Design: "When the producers of the variety show Entertainment as a Second Language with Carlos Santos (ESL) came to production designer Terry Gipson of Gipson Design Group and lighting designer Michael Grabowski of the Lighting Design Group to do a new show for MTV, they recalled the finale of MTV’s Total Request Live. “The designer had created a low ceiling grid over the performers by renting [Philips Color Kinetics] iColor© Accents. These tubes have LEDs in them, so you could constantly change the color,” Gipson explains. “You could have different looks for each performer. It’s very flexible and dramatic looking.”"