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Richard Cadena Teaches Lighting Design at CHAUVET HQ

Posted on June 25, 2012

CHAUVET hosted Richard Cadena, from the Academy of Production Technology, for a three-day seminar  about “Lighting Design and Applications” at its Florida headquarters. Here are some photos of Cadena, sharing his knowledge and passion for lighting with CHAUVET team members. Also check out our three-part interview of Cadena talking with our own Ford Sellers. LD […]

Video in the World of Lighting – Part 3

Posted on June 20, 2012

Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional By now, you know what kind of show you are doing and what it is going to look like. The plot is finished up and all of your gear is in pretty rows of road cases on your show site. Now what? Here are a few […]

CHAUVET lights Catwalk for Charity

Posted on June 14, 2012

Lit entirely by CHAUVET fixtures and sponsored by Neiman Marcus, the second annual Catwalk for Charity, held at Miami’s Mandarin Oriental hotel, raised funds for Breakfast with Santa (BWS), a non-profit organization serving underprivileged children in Miami and Haiti. Several movie and fashion stars, as well as influential Haitian-American professionals and political personalities attended the […]

InfoComm 2012: Day One

Posted on June 13, 2012

Below are a few shots of booth C11301 direct from the trade show floor. We launched new video products to complement our VIP Series as well as new moving heads to our Q-Series. We also have our ILUMINARC products on display as well as the newly launched trussing line, TRUSST. New video products: PVP S7, […]

Legend 412 Lights Legend-in-the-making

Posted on May 24, 2012

Sixteen CHAUVET Professional Legend 412 moving heads projected powerful beams and striking, pixel-mapping effects as Skrillex rocked the house during the South By Southwest 2012 AM Only Showcase. Justin Jenkins, lighting designer for Creative Production and Design, specified 12 Legend 412 moving heads for backlighting while the remaining four fixtures created audience pixel-mapping effects and downlit the high-energy […]

LD Interview: Visual Case Studies with Geoff Farrell

Posted on May 7, 2012

The Marlin Hotel, located in South Beach, has been reborn with the help of ILUMINARC LΩgic fixtures, which are part of the CHAUVET Professional line. The color changing LED-fitted lights are part of the LΩgic System which work seamlessly with the Savant system installed in the hotel, whereby room amenities as well as the lights […]

Zen and the Art of Entertainment Lighting, Part 3

Posted on May 2, 2012

Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional  I can remember sitting in the audience during a show on one of the ships, I was auditing.  There was a banjo player on stage and he was working on creating a mood. He was trying to create the image of sitting on his grandfather’s front […]

COLORado 1 IP Lights NCAA Final Four Event

Posted on April 26, 2012

More than 100 CHAUVET Professional COLORado 1 IP wash lights were part of a temporary installation for the NCAA Final Four event in New Orleans, lighting the main entrance to Champions Square, a tailgating facility adjacent to the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans. Specified by the Solomon Group lighting company, the fixtures performed flawlessly for […]

Zen and the Art of Entertainment Lighting, Part 2

Posted on March 5, 2012

Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional Question: How many grains of sand are in the desert? Answer: Not one more than there has to be. When you are working on your design of your light plot, it is important to not throw every single light you have at the stage…unless it absolutely […]

LD Profile: Walter Aleman

Posted on March 5, 2012

Six questions with Walter Aleman, lighting designer for Off the Hookah chain of Mediterranean-style restaurant/lounges in South Florida. 1. How did you get into this field? I was introduced to lighting by visiting one of my best friends Mike Littlefield (DJ SWERVE r.i.p.) that was DJing the grand opening of the new Seminole Hard Rock […]