GLP innovations shine at Panorama Festival 2025 in Lecce, Italy

LightSoundJournal.com: Panorama Festival is one of the international hotspots for electronic music. The multi-day event takes place in the CAVE DEL DUCA in Lecce, a former limestone quarry with a unique atmosphere. From 14 to 16 August 2025, 15,000 fans celebrated to pounding techno beats – accompanied by a spectacular lighting design featuring more than 220 GLP fixtures.

Pure Beamage: LD Marcus Jessup Deploys Claypaky Ultimo Sharpy For Playboi Carti's Tour

www.limelightwired.com: It’s been a massive year for lighting designer Marcus Jessup and Playboi Carti. We first caught up with Jessup, founder of Moving Through Space (MTS), this spring at Rolling Loud LA, where Carti headlined just days after releasing a new album and surprised fans with a guest appearance from The Weeknd. Not long after, Carti joined The Weeknd’s global tour as the opening act, bringing Jessup’s lighting design to some of the largest venues in the world. This fall, Carti is back out on his own headlining arena run with Jessup once again designing the show.

Dave Matthews Band elevates summer tour with Elation Lighting

LightSoundJournal.com: Dave Matthews Band (DMB) took their signature live show on the road this past summer, delighting fans across North America with their deep catalog of eclectic hits and jam numbers. Wrapped in August, the tour featured a large Elation lighting package, including PROTEUS, PULSE, and SŌL series luminaires, part of an artfully-designed production that helped reinforce the band’s status as a must-see touring act.

From the Stands to the Sands: Palmesus 2025 shines through with JBL Professional and Martin Lighting

LightSoundJournal.com: HARMAN Professional showcased the brilliance of Martin Professional and JBL Professional technologies at Palmesus 2025, Scandinavia’s largest beach festival. With thousands dancing on the beach alongside unforgettable sets by world-class DJs, including Kygo, Fisher, Stormzy, Chase & Status and more, Martin lighting and JBL Professional audio systems delivered clarity, impact and a captivating experience across multiple stages.

Rhino in the Room for Robe

LightSoundJournal.com: Dutch for ‘rhinoceros’ – is a busy, buzzing and vibrant music venue in the heart of Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, complete with two halls, a cafe area that’s also used as a performance space, rehearsal rooms and studios, plus strong educational ties with local vocational college, Firda, which focuses on music, drama, theatre and the arts, running both technical and creative courses.

Michael Canitrot Drops Beats and Dazzles With Projection Mapping

mymodernmet.com: If you were there on September 19, 2025, the Chateau de Chambord was likely unrecognizable. The UNESCO World Heritage Site in Chambord, France, was transformed into a canvas for the renowned French DJ and music producer Michael Canitrot. Using the technological magic of projection mapping, the massive Renaissance facade wore an ever-changing contemporary cloak choreographed to Canitrot’s electronic music.

Maker Faire Brings Light to the Dark

Make:: Fireflies know it, anglerfish know it, even Panellus stipticus knows it – some things look better in the dark. And with too many glowing things to fit in a single warehouse, Maker Faire Bay Area has multiple zones to escape the sun and enjoy the twilight.

PLOT LUCK: 2024 RECAP

Live Design Online: Everybody loves a good plot, so you're in luck! Here's a recap of Live Design's Plot Luck stories from 2024, from the Super Bowl Halftime Show and Broadway shows to concert tours by way of Las Vegas. Check out the plots, gear lists, and comments by the designers on the lighting.

The challenge and thrill of staging North by Northwest

limelightmagazine.com.au: Adapting the more epic elements of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic satirical 1959 spy thriller film North by Northwest for the stage became possible with live filming and projections and innovative set and lighting design, augmented by some old-fashioned actorly running on the spot.

Gae Aulenti

Women in Lighting: Lighting Design is a multi-faceted discipline in a sense that designing a lighting product is as significant as designing spaces with light. With a small experiment by Humphry Davy to develop an electric bulb to the modern-day LEDs, the evolution of lamp design is quite interesting to look at. The history of design in general can be traced back from the evolution of lamp design with different shapes, materials & styles.

Yumiko Nagashima

Your Interviews | Women in Lighting: My name is Yumiko Nagashima. I am a lighting designer at the studio, CHIPS LLC. I've been pursuing what I got interested in, and I think that made me who I am. I belonged to the theater club when I was in high school. The lighting changed how the stage looked in the theater, and I like that. At around the same time, I was interested in display design too.

Harford Sound Calls On CHAUVET Professional To Enhance Arena Vibe For Glamour Kitty

LightSoundJournal.com: As far as improvised livestream studios go, the 750 square foot performance space that owner Evan Kirkendall and GM Steve Wozniak created inside Harford Sound’s warehouse is pretty big. It’s also beefy, with a rig that includes over 75 CHAUVET Professional fixtures and a massive 18’ by 10’ video wall made with F4IP panels.

Lighting Design: Big Designs on a Small Budget

Church Production Magazine: I am always looking for new ideas, philosophies, and techniques to get the best “bang for my buck” when it comes to stage lighting and lighting effects for our church. Lighting is definitely one area where you can spend a lot of money very quickly and not have a whole lot to show for it.

Illuminating the Careers of Disabled Lighting Designers

HowlRound Theatre Commons: Annie Wiegand is the first, and maybe the only, professional Deaf lighting designer in the theatre industry in the United States. She has been working as a freelance designer in New York City for a decade and is also a professor in the theatre and dance program at Gallaudet University, the only university in the world for Deaf students. Michael Maag is a lighting and projection designer who acquired his disability in a car versus bicycle accident in 2003 and became a T-9 paraplegic. He is the resident lighting designer at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and a founding member of Kinetic Light, a disability arts ensemble.

Claypaky Sharpy Plus Fixtures Deliver Stunning Lighting Effects for Mexico City TD Bank Commercial

LightSoundJournal.com: Mexican Lighting Designer Delher López harnessed the power of 50 Claypaky Sharpy Plus fixtures to create striking spot/beam lighting effects for a TD Bank commercial for the Mexico City region.

GLP impression X4 stars in rare Texas live show

LightSoundJournal.com: Shoreline City Church’s Christmas Eve celebration at the American Airlines Center (AAC) in Dallas, TX, provided an auspicious occasion for Houston-based lighting and production design company, Visual Edge Lighting and GLP’s classic impression X4, provided by Upstaging.

Lighting in a Streaming and VOD World

Church Production Magazine: At the start of 2020 most churches considered live streaming to be a useful but secondary aspect of ministry. With the advent of COVID-19 restrictions, however, streaming and VOD quickly became the safest way for church leaders to maintain connection with the larger congregation. Moving into the coming weeks and months, live streaming will continue to serve as a primary avenue for corporate worship, teaching, community, and vision casting.

Showing London in a new light

LightSoundJournal.com: As London emerges from the coronavirus crisis, its public spaces are in the spotlight. Preventing the spread of the virus will mean spending more time outdoors when meeting others as we head into autumn. This is a chance to review how London is lit and to enhance its attractiveness, making it an even more enjoyable place to be.

ALD Launches Sponsored Student Scheme

ETNow.com: The ALD, for people in performance lighting, has announced that applications for its perennially popular Sponsored Student Scheme for the year 2021 are open, and that also running alongside the scheme, for the month of September only, is a promotion targeted at the other individual membership categories, for discounted subscription rates for the rest of the membership year to March 2021.

DiGiCo Quantum7 and SD12 Pair Loaded with KLANG Immersive System Give the Clients at Sixth Sense Creative House an Extrasensory Experience

LightSoundJournal.com: COVID-19 has changed everything. “This pandemic has forced creative people to have to get creative about everything, even things we usually take for granted,” says Tom Worley, Operations Manager at 3G Productions, Inc. (“3G”), a leading live production, sales, and systems integration provider. Thus, this summer 3G turned its Los Angeles facility into Sixth Sense Creative House, a flexible production space able to accommodate live events, film and audio recordings, and live streaming from its sound stage.