Main Character Energy: Raw Cereal Designs Bryson Tiller's Tour

Live Design Online: Bryson Tiller's 61-date Neo Trapsoul world tour is designed to accommodate venues from Red Rocks to Berlin's Velodrom, and a variety of guest artists emerging from a FOMO-inspiring door to backstage. Cort Lawrence, show designer and director at Raw Cereal, spoke to Live Design about its work on the tour.

Springboard to Design Launches Virtual Sessions Featuring Designers and Industry Professionals

BroadwayWorld: Springboard to Design has launched a new series of virtual programming featuring industry professionals and Tony Award–winning artists, building on the success of its summer initiative. Designed for emerging designers, students, and theatre educators, the virtual series provides direct access to leading professionals from across the field.

The next phase of design will still be human-led

Fast Company: Someone can convert an idea into reality faster than ever before with the help of generative AI, and that makes the role of humans in the process even more important. “More is not always better. Faster is not always better,” said Emily Galloway, Spotify’s senior director of product design, at the New Rules of Great Design panel during the 2026 Fast Company Innovation Festival in New York City. “Human judgment is becoming so important.”

6 Designers You Should Know

AMERICAN THEATRE: A San Francisco-based sound designer and composer, Caruthers creates immersive theatrical soundscapes and experimental electronic music. His 300-plus credits include Troilus and Cressida for Oregon Shakespeare Festival; 1984, The Winter’s Tale, Pictures from Home, and Born Yesterday for Alley Theatre; Frankenstein: Playing With Fire for Guthrie Theater; and Sweat for Center Repertory Company. What’s next: Sound design for Assimilation and Smoke and Shadows with Word for Word at Z Space, and Alice, Formerly of Wonderland, an a cappella musical, at TheatreWorks.

LDI & Live Design Are Thrilled To Announce The Return Of The Excellence In Live Design Awards

Live Design Online: LDI and Live Design are thrilled to announce the return of the Excellence in Live Design Awards, celebrating the outstanding projects, people, and creative and technical achievements shaping the live entertainment and events industry.

Unstacking Risers for an Elegant Handrail

Journal of Light Construction: I’m about to embark on an exciting build of a “dancing winder” staircase this summer, which I’ll document in a JLC article to come later this year. Before we get to that complex winding stair, however, I thought I’d begin easing into the topic of winding stairs with a discussion of the simplest design—a basic “quarter-turn,” or L-shaped, stairway with two half-flights of stairs, a lower one leading up to a landing, where it turns the corner and starts the upper half-flight.

Reproducing Victorian-Style Door Casing

www.jlconline.com: One of the things I like about working on a historic home is the challenge of matching new work to old. Last summer, I was hired to do the finish work for a kitchen remodel in a 19th century Victorian home in Winona, Minn. The kitchen had been previously remodeled sometime in the 1960s in a contemporary style incompatible with the home’s period look.

A sofa that deserves gawping at: The de Sede Terrazza sofa in film

Film and Furniture: Designed by Ubald Klug for De Sede in 1972, the DS-1025 Terrazza is less a sofa and more a landscape. Its stepped, modular form invites you to sit, recline, sprawl, or simply occupy it like a piece of terrain.

Here's What You Can Expect With the Burning Man Temple 2026

mymodernmet.com: The legendary Burning Man is a temporary city that is reconstructed, in differing forms, year after year. Artists and architects build structures with the intention of removing them. How can they impart meaning to something that will soon be dismantled? For 2026, designer James Gwertzman approaches this challenge with the Temple of the Moon, a project that combines parametric design, environmental responsiveness, and ritual space. The forthcoming structure will be at the heart of this year’s event.

‘Arcadia’ brings everything to the stage, from mystery, passion, time travel to science

The NATRAT: How do you discuss every idea in the universe within three hours? The late playwright Tom Stoppard tried to answer this in his play, “Arcadia,” which was performed by the School of Drama from Feb. 26 to March 16 and directed by Kyle Haden, the senior associate head for the School of Drama.

Moment Factory designs an interactive botanical world

AV Magazine: An immersive experience that invites visitors to explore a vibrant botanical world that responds to their every movement has opened at the Futuroscope theme park in France. Entertainment studio Moment Factory was brought in to turn the park’s 360 into an attraction that shifts guests from observation to active, free-flow engagement.

▶️ Super Bowl LX Halftime Show: In The Shop With All Access

Live Design Online: Joey Brennan, Halftime Staging Supervisor for All Access Staging takes us into the shop for a deep dive into the sets for the Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show, with production design spearheaded by Bruce Rogers of Tribe Inc.

Decor and Design Details to Love in Fennell's Wuthering Heights

Film and Furniture: Emerald Fennell’s 2026 adaptation of Wuthering Heights moves decisively away from traditional windswept naturalism and treats design as emotional voltage, using architecture and surface to heighten every feeling.

Haiti’s Hand-Painted Winter Olympics Uniforms Are a ‘Story of Resistance’

news.artnet.com: Just weeks before the Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Milan on February 6, Olympic officials blocked Haiti’s plan to feature a painting of revolutionary leader Toussaint Louverture on its team uniforms, prompting a race against time that culminated in a radically altered, hand-painted redesign—the first in the games’ 100-year history.

Towering mushrooms adorn Grand Palais for Chanel couture show

www.dezeen.com: French fashion house Chanel filled Paris's Grand Palais with Alice in Wonderland-style mushrooms and real trees, which created a runway for the brand's Spring Summer 2026 haute couture show.

Grammys 2026 stage features "modern sculptural" gramophone

www.dezeen.com: The stage and scenography for the Grammy Awards ceremony in LA this coming weekend is designed by New York-based Yellow Studio and anchored by a giant golden gramophone. The Recording Academy's annual celebration of musical achievement, which takes place at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on 1 February 2026, is Yellow Studio's fifth production design for the Grammys.

'Frankenstein,' 'Warfare,' 'Bone Temple' Case Studies Hosted at Focus

variety.com: The 10th anniversary edition of production event Focus, which takes place at Business Design Centre, London, on Dec. 8–9, includes case studies of “Frankenstein,” “Warfare” and “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.” The session titled “Crafting Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’” features Tamara Deverell, production designer on “Frankenstein,” Kate Hawley, the film’s costume designer, and Mike Hill, who worked on creature design and character prosthetics make up FX.

What Do the Colors on the Gulf Tower Mean?

Pittsburgh Magazine: When the pyramid-shaped cap to the Gulf Tower first started giving a weather report, it was a binary prediction. Beginning in 1956, the pyramid atop the 44-story skyscraper would glow orange for fair weather, blue for foul — a practice that continued into the 1970s.

'Hedda' Artisans Break Down Costumes, Sets, and Makeup Design

variety.com: In creating the world of Nia DaCosta’s “Hedda,” hair and makeup artist Sharon A. Martin created a new phrase to explain the aristocratic world of mid-century England. “I coined the phrase ‘classic modernity’ to it because it’s [a] very period [film], but then it could also be [a mix of] today and the period that we had to play with,”

Visit an 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' setting with concept artist Dylan Cole

www.goldderby.com: Like any kid fortunate enough to be of moviegoing age in 1989, Dylan Cole's life was forever changed by a brush with Batman, specifically the Tim Burton version that loomed large in movie theaters throughout that pivotal summer.