We’ve just launched our microsite dedicated to LDI news. It will feature the contents of our Road to LDI enewsletter and our LDI Show Daily that starts the Monday before the show. You can check it out here.

While gathering news for LDI coverage, I’ve been speaking to a lot of designers who are getting ready to attend LDI in a few weeks. It’s interesting that a lot of more

How great is it that Jennifer Tipton has won one of those fabulous MacArthur Foundation “genius” Awards! What designer couldn’t find a great use for $500,000 over five years with no strings attached?

Calling in from Paris where she is working on a project with the Paris Opera Ballet, Tipton commented: “I’m am the first theatre designer to be so honored and I feel quite privileged.” Her next projects include lighting more

Interested in a behind-the-scenes tour of Radio City Music Hall with architect Hugh Hardy? Or seeing site-specific dance in historic sites around the five boroughs of New York City? Or a peek at the Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn? These and other arts-related events are part of the Open House New York weekend coming up on October 4 and 5: it’s a great way for visitors, as well as more

Last night, I was lucky to attend the Celine Dion show at the Nassau Coliseum in Long Island, NY. The talented Yves Aucoin, Dion’s longtime designer, arranged for my mother and I to see the show (during which, just as I suspected, my mother was nearly out of her own skin with excitement). As for me, I was just looking forward to seeing Yves’ design and watching Mom mouth “Oh more

With projection sweeping though the live production industry like wildfire—from concerts to Broadway and beyond, it is more and more rare to see a production without some kind of video or other projected imagery. That’s why Live Design is producing the third annual Projection Master Classes at LDI, October 21-23 in Las Vegas. And if you are interested in projection, you should really meet us there! We’ll all be going more