South Korea's government has used 300 drones to thank frontline workers and encourage citizens to keep fighting the spread of Coronavirus by taking precautionary hygiene meausres. A "drone art flash mob" was used to show images of medical workers in protective gear together with images of handwashing, people wearing masks…
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Telecom firm lights up 240m tower for 5G launch
Düsseldorf’s 240m-tall Rheinturm tower was the setting for a sky-high laser projection and light show in June to promote Deutsche Telekom’s extended 5G network. The telecommunications company worked with German event management agency DO IT! to realise the show, and the agency in turn commissioned AO Creative to help conceptualise,…
Live event venues #lightitblue for NHS birthday
The UK skyline once again turned into a beacon of blue as venues across the country were illuminated on Saturday 4 July, the eve of the 72nd anniversary of the founding of the NHS (National Health Service). Among the hundreds of buildings to be lit blue were the Royal Albert…
Drone show lights the sky for frontline heroes
Drone light show company Verge Aero has paid an aerial tribute to medical staff and essential workers on the frontline of the Covid-19 pandemic. The display took place opposite the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and The Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania as part of the global #LightItBlue and local…
Lighting fixtures mark out social distancing spaces
Astera AX1 Pixel Tubes are doing their bit – both as energising effects luminaires and as practical lights – marking out the social distancing spaces - onstage at Delivered Live, a performance-based web streaming concept for music and comedy. The show is broadcast weekly from The Studio, otherwise known as…
Wuhan light show celebrates lifting of lockdown
The city where the Covid-19 outbreak started has celebrated the end of an 76-day lockdown with a midnight light and projection show. Imagery projected onto skyscrapers paid tribute healthcare workers, troops and police officers who worked tirelessly throughout the last three months to look after the 11 million residents. The…
Robe helps light the sky for key worker heroes
On Sunday 22 March - for half an hour, a number of Benelux lighting rental companies and individuals – in fact anyone with access to a light – were invited to point it upwards and #LightTheSky in support of all the key workers, heroes and heroines on the frontline of fighting…
Motorola drone show video attracts 200,000 views
A video of a drone lighting show promoting the reinvention of Motorola’s Razr flip phone in the Middle East and Africa, has attracted over 200,000 views through Motorola’s social media channels. The 120-drone show includes an animation of the Razr flip phone opening, closing and rotating in the sky. Teams…
Ferrari supercar unveiled amid fog and laser effects
Fusion Entertainment provided the technical production for the gala unveiling of the Ferrari F8 Tributo in Sydney, Australia using a complement of Claypaky fixtures to illuminate the car’s debut at the black-tie event. The glittering evening marked the first Australian appearance for the new, half-million dollar mid-engined supercar. It has…
Wireless LED tubes replace beams in ex-Soviet play
Wireless LED Titan Tubes from event and entertainment lighting company Astera have helped the action come alive in a Moscow theatre performance of a comic opera. The Worker and Kolkhoz Woman by Pavel Kaplevich is dedicated to one of Russia's most famous monuments, The Worker and Kolkhoz Woman, a 24.5…