LDI AWARD |
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Two months after the launch of our Black Steel Gobos at London’s PLASA show in September, our Little Black Number was quick to impress the lighting world on the other side of the Atlantic, winning the LDI Award for Best Debuting Product at this year’s LDI show in Orlando.
Company Director Ivo Dielen did the honours on the catwalk to collect the Award, commenting afterwards, “We are very happy to receive this recognition for our latest creation. The Black Steel Gobos have been an instant success and confirm our belief that they are much needed by the industry.”
Designed with a black, heat-resistant coating to cut down the internal reflection, Black Steel Gobos enhance the clarity of image in gobo projection and have been getting some fantastic feedback from America too.
TRADESHOW NEWS |
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ACF, Belgium
We would like to thank those of you who came to visit us at the ACF Audio-Visual Creative Fair at the Heizel Palace Exhibition Centre in Brussels. This fair is an dynamic mix of distributors and rental companies who were able to see our Black Steel and Full Colour gobos alongside the Goboland Black Holes.
JTSE, Paris
Robert Juliat’s Christian Paillard used Goboland gobos in some of their lanterns on their stand at the JTSE tradeshow in Paris last month. The gobos were all full colour glass with images keystoned by Studio Wyatt.
GOBO TWEAKER |
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In a move to make life just a little more comfortable, Goboland have produced the Gobo Tweaker. This handy little gadget incorpoates any design from the Goboland Steel Collection into an all-in-one unit complete with handle. This unit fits into a standard gobo holder and the handle is used to orientate the gobo within the lantern into the exact position required, with no additional tools and without burning the fingers.
Additionally, custom designs can be created in the Gobo Tweaker format making alignment of logos and other images are fast and easy to do when focussing on site.
Gobo Tweakers are produced in the new black steel and available in A, B or M size.
TWO CREATE |
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We are very proud to have been involved with this recently completed project which was designed by Tobie Snowdowne and Lucy Nunn of London-based, Two Create. Snowdowne and Nunn were approached to design an interior for the Young Persons Unit on the Teenage Cancer Ward at Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth hospital.
“The theme for the project was inspired by consultation with the patients on the ward,” explains Snowdowne. “Their main precept was that they did not want to be indoors in a hospital but to be outside, so we developed a nature theme which we used across three rooms, the Sanctuary Room, a kitchen/lounge room and a Study Room.
“The Sanctuary Room has an angled ceiling which provides an ideal projection surface. We used a Mathmos Space Projector to project onto the sloping ceilings and added ‘hillscape’ sofas which the teenagers can lie on to watch them.”
The design for the gobo wheel was based on a walk in British woodlands and incorporated brambles, rosehips and a total of nineteen animals which are slowly rotated to form a relaxing environment.
The project is entitled “You’ll Never Walk Alone” which was the motto of Lee Thorp, a brave young man who lost his battle with cancer on the ward and whose parents had raised the money to fund the refurbishment for the unit.
More details can be found on Two Create’s website at www.twocreate.co.uk
GENERO |
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Genero Productions Ltd in Wales have recently taken stock of a number of gobos from the Goboland Collection, as part of their investment in stage lighting, designed to service their clientelle in the Live Events market.
“Traditionally we have hired our lighting to cover the conferences and award ceremonies which form such a large part of our work,” explains Peter Morris. “However, we are now investing in a stock of moving heads, mainly Robe 575s and generics like ETC Source 4 Juniors and the larger 15/30s. Goboland make custom gobos of corporate logos for the movers and we are building a stock of Collection design metal gobos to act as breakups in the generics. I come from a theatre background and we are starting to introduce a more theatrical element to liven up some of the corporate lighting. We find the Triangular Splatter is very popular at the moment, having used them at the Wales Tourism Alliance Annual Conference earlier this year and, in December, at the am2pm Premier Wholesale Awards which took place at the Hilton Plaza Hotel in Wembley. We will be adding more gobos to our collection with future projects.”
More information on Genero Productions Ltd can be found on their website at www.genero-productions.co.uk
GAM CUTS A FINE LINE |
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A work of great precision and detail was undertaken to supply the financial investment company, GAM, with a stylish environment for their conferences at the Hyatt Hotel in Zurich and the Dorchester Hotel in London in March 2007.
Lighting Designer Andy Grant of Luminance worked with Goboland’s Wyatt Enever to create a series of 14 individual steel custom gobos which were used to highlight sections of letters on the conference stage.
‘Because there was only one suitable set of points in the venue, the position of the lighting truss was fixed, so the throw distance and height in relation to the letters was a known factor,’ explains Grant.
'I knew that I would need a wide angle profile for the job and it needed to be a zoom for some flexibility, so I settled on the Source Four Zoom 25-50.
'The set was drawn in AutoCAD by Philippe Brandt and, after working out the maximum beam size I could get from the given distance, I used his drawing and divided the letters into 14 sections. I then created the artwork masking off where the screens and horizontal band cut through the letters’
Enever was then brought in to calculate the amount of distortion each gobo artwork would require to counteract keystoning so that the projection came "true". As all of the fixtures were the same distance and were to be perpendicular to the set, only three single plane distortions were needed.
The precision of Enever’s calculations was an important factor to the success of the final result. ‘It was a job which required so much accuracy,’ continues Grant, ‘as one relies on so many variables to get it right. The set must be the right size, shape and in the right place. The lighting truss must be in the right position at the right height and all the lights be well maintained with the same optical properties. The accuracy of the gobos gave me the fine tuning to help make the job a success’.
FINALLY |
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If you have any projects you would like to feature in the Goboland Bright Shadows news letters, please send information and photos to our press contact julie@joolzharper.co.uk
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