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DAER Nightclub wins Mondo Award

DAER Nightclub in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has won a 2020 Mondo (Americas) Award…
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SketchUp

What we can learn from a Coachella lighting designer's 3D workflow

Stephen Lieberman translates the language of music into incredible visuals…
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Christopher Lochhead

Legendary Lighting & Nightclub Designer Steve Lieberman

Today, entrepreneur and the incredibly creative guy Steve Lieberman, Founder & CEO of SJ Lighting, joins us today for another riveting conversation…
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Magnetic Magazine

IN CONVERSATION: STEVE LIEBERMAN [CEO OF SJ LIGHTING]

And that's what it takes. That's what separates, you know, the pros from the amateurs…
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Orland Sentinel

Orlando EDC: A behind-the-scenes look at the festival’s lighting

Orlando’s EDC, Electric Daisy Carnival, is now in its ninth year and bigger than ever…
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LA Talk Radio

Steve Lieberman interview with Wake Up Hollywood

Steve Lieberman talks Coachella, and designing experiences
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Geezers of Gear

Steve Lieberman, LD and Production Designer for EDM Festivals, Clubs and more!

Having grown up in the rave world, Steve literally has Electronic Music in his blood…
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PRG

Q&A With Steve Lieberman

Steve Lieberman designs the lighting rigs for multiple stages at…
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LSI Online

Chauvet lights neonGARDEN at EDC

After venturing into neonGARDEN, it was easy for Electric Daisy Carnival…
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ECT NOW

Steve Lieberman Creates Club Vibe in neonGARDEN…

After venturing into neonGARDEN, it was easy for Electric Daisy Carnival…
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Live Design

Steve Lieberman Checks In From The Yuma Tent At Coachella

Steve Lieberman chatted with us just before doors on Sunday…
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Spectrum News

Lighting Wizard Part of Massive Behind-the-Scenes…

How does a performance at a festival like Coachella come to life? It takes months of preparation…
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EDM Maniac

An Interview With Steve Lieberman…

In the world of nightclubs, concerts and festivals, production (that is the lights, stages, structures and special effects)…
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Chauvet

Over 200 Epix Fixtures Set Stage For Steve Lieberman

"Who did you see?" Pose that question to a random sampling of the 230,000…
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Semipermanent

Lighting designer Steve Lieberman talks Coachella…

Steve Lieberman started going to warehouse raves in a mid-80s New York and hasn't really stopped since…
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ETC

Steve Lieberman – From raves to rave reviews

Lighting designer Steve Lieberman has what he modestly calls "a knack for programming and running lights."…
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plsn

EDC Mexico Brightens with Chauvet…

"Who did you see?" Pose that question to a random sampling of the 230,000…
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livedesign

Flare Rayzrs Brighten the EDM Mix

In a spectacular New Year's kick-off, Insomniac Events produced two blockbuster EDM festivals…
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LA Times

Steve Lieberman got his start lighting illegal…

Steve Lieberman, 46, is the president of SJ Lighting Inc., a Westlake Village production design company with jobs that range from lighting a Las Vegas nightclub…
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Petersons

You Have a Cool Job: Festival Production Designer

On this week's episode of You Have a Cool Job, we talk to the man behind the magic of Coachella, Electric Daisy Carnival, Lollapalooza, and many more…
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PLSN

This is how Escape: Psycho Circus…

Led by Stephen Lieberman, who caught the rave bug back in the early 1990s…
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PLSN

Marquee NYC, Steve Lieberman…

For those of us in the design and production sector of the industry…
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Chicago Tribune

A Lolla stage lighting designer…

Lollapalooza is about more than just music. The four-day festival is…
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Live Design

Las Vegas Gets Electric At…

Stephen Lieberman led his team at SJ Lighting in production design…
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Uproxx

Meet The Designer Who's Lighting…

It would be nearly impossible to imagine…
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Live Design

Light Keeps It Dark Inside…

Steve Lieberman of SJ Lighting has designed Yuma Tent…
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Live Design

Lighting Plots For Yuma Tent…

Steve Lieberman of SJ Lighting designed the production and…
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EDM World Magazine

The Man Behind The Wow Factor…

Stephen Lieberman is the man behind the electrifying…
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Forbes

This Will Make You Feel Like…

An inside look into Coachella's Yuma Tent…
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DJ Mag

DJ Mag Japan Special Interview…

EDC JAPAN come back again at May 12 and 13 in ZOZO …
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Marketplace

How to be a lighting designer

Everyone has a dream job growing up…
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Chauvet Professional

Steve Lieberman: On Club Lighting

Steve Lieberman's club lighting designs will often vary …
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Pacific San Diego

Steve Lieberman lights up…

Lighting designer Steve Lieberman didn't…
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LUCE Magazine

Lighting up emotions: light…

Since about ten years, the world of electronic music…
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Harman

Electrifying the EDM Environment…

Since he was a teenager in Long Island, Steve Lieberman…
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Musicweek

Six Questions With…

This week's Q&A is with SJ Lighting's Steve Lieberman, lighting designer…
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Man of Many

Meet The Man Behind…

Ask any raver and they’ll tell you: it's the light show…
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Miami New Times

LIV Reopens This Weekend…

In less than a decade, Miami Beach’s LIV Nightclub…
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Thump

We speak with the mastermind…

The reflectors and cameras are always on the artists…
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Las Vegas Review Journal

Behind the booth with EDC…

At 3 a.m. on Friday night of Electric Daisy Carnival, Steve Lieberman…
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Billboard

EDC Stage Designer on Fest's…

When you're standing with arms locked between friends, mouth agape…
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Chauvet Professional

Time Flies With CHAUVET Professional…

New guests at Time can't help turning their heads in every direction…
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Intellitix Knowledge Hub

Masterclass: Steve Lieberman of SJ Lighting…

It's not enough to have a lineup and some beer anymore…
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Jewish Journal

Designer lights up electronic music…

The electronic dance music industry (EDM) has taken over pop music…
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Live Design

SJ Lighting Goes Elation…

Valentine's-themed EDM shows in San Fran, SoCal and Arizona…
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Event Bright

Meet the EDM Lights Expert …

Music is just one part of the live EDM experience…
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mondo *dr

TIME

Time is a high-end nightclub based in Orange County…
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PLSN

Three LDs, One Common Denominator

The LED lighting controller software Madrix…
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Live Design

EDM Marches On with Insomniac…

SJ Lighting is one of our industry's top production design firms…
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Huffington Post

Dance Into the Light…

The electronic music Renaissance has opened up a new galaxy…
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mondo*dr

Steve Lieberman Adds Movement…

Staying on top of the club scene for 21 months is no mean accomplishment…
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Pulse

We Spoke To Steve Lieberman…

The last few years have seen an EDM arms race develop…
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Miami New Times

Steve Lieberman Has Been Designing…

Last year was my first time at Ultra, and when I close…
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Miami.com

9 things you didn't know…

Everyone raves on and on about the DJs and dance-music acts…
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Thump

All of the Lights…

Over 20 years, the founder of SJ Lighting has built an empire…
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Live Design

Steve Lieberman Creates Clear…

Like the universe itself, the Ultra Music Festival keeps expanding…
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Live Design

Robe Catches The Beat…

Ultra Miami 2016, a major U.S. EDM event staged along Bayfront Park…
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Live Design

500+ Elation Lights For Ultra…

Described as three-days of fast beats, loud drops, beautiful people…
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OC Weekly

Shining a Light on the…

This is the moment that the fans at Halsey's nighttime set at the…
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Live Design

Steve Lieberman Accents Coachella…

INDIO, CA – Now in its 17th year, Coachella…
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PLSN

DJ Booth at Coachella's Yuma Tent…

INDIO, CA – Steve Lieberman of SJ Lighting added an extra dimension…
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TPi

Ultra Music Festival 2016

Highlights from one of the largest dance festivals in North America…
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Your EDM

Aspire to Inspire 128…

Although, the decision to make this his life's work wasn't always a sure thing…
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NEST HQ

Installation 033 – Steve Lieberman

NEST HQ was created with the intention of being a platform aimed…
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LA Music Blog

INTERVIEW: Stephen Lieberman…

Behind the scenes, in front of the stage…
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Creators

How the Disco Ball Still Shines…

From the "Myriad Reflector" to a disco chandelier made with 1,500 LED lights…
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PLSN

Steve Lieberman Creates Multiple Moods…

CHICAGO — Prysm, a new two-story nightclub in Chicago…
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The Sun

Lights, stage design play part…

With one press of a button, Steve Lieberman can change…
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Live for Live Music

Interview With EDC Orlando…

My first job in a nightclub was 1986…
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Live Design

Interview With EDC Orlando…

Over Labor Day weekend, the 21st rendition of Nocturnal Wonderland…
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Lighting and Sound America

Inside Drai's

As new hotel/casinos continue to open along the Las Vegas Strip…
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ACT Lighting

SJ Lighting Chooses grandMA2…

SJ Lighting, Inc., design consultants and lighting specialists based in Agoura Hills…
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Live Design

SJ Lighting Chooses grandMA2…

SJ Lighting, Inc., design consultants and lighting specialists based in Agoura Hills…
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Pollstar

Spotlight On SJ Lighting's Steve Lieberman

With Miami's Ultra Music Festival coming up March 27-29 we thought it would be perfect timing…
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Live Design

Harman's Martin RUSH Fixtures…

The brief for the Queens Ground and Sunken Garden stages at this year's Nocturnal Wonderland…
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Chauvet Professional

Nexus Aw 7×7, Steve Lieberman…

It doesn't really matter what Steve Lieberman uses to make lighting magic…
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Lighting and Sound America

Chauvet Professional Helps Steve…

USA – If there's one thing that the tens of thousands of fans who attend the Ultra Music Festival…
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Live Design

Ultra Music Festival Main Stage…

Check out lighting plots from Steve Lieberman and his team at SJ Lighting for the Ultra Music Festival…
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ET Now

Chauvet Professional Helps…

USA – If there's one thing that the tens of thousands of fans who attend…
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ET Now

Nexus Aw 7x7 Helps Steve Lieberman…

USA – All eyes were on the Worldwide Stage at the Ultra Music Festival…
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PLSN

Ultra Music Festival in Miami Turns 17

After 17 years, the Ultra Music Festival has become an institution in Miami…
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Mix Mag

KEY PLAYER: STEVE LIEBERMAN…

Steve Lieberman's SJ Lighting changed the rave landscape in the US, delivering the eye-popping stages…
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Live Design

Ultra Music Festival 2015…

The Carl Cox Tent raged again at Ultra Music Festival 2015 in Miami with production design by Stephen Lieberman…
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Live Design

Life Nightclub At SLS Las Vegas

Life, a new mega-club at SLS Las Vegas Hotel and Casino (an SBE property)…
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PLSN

Steve Lieberman Gives Coachella Yuma…

Coachella's Yuma Tent utilizes Chauvet Professional's Nexus Aw 7x7 LED panels…
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Live Design

Ultra Worldwide/Midpark Stage…

Check out SJ Lighting's plots for the Worldwide/Midpark Stage at Ultra Music Festival 2015…
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Club World

SJ Lighting's Steve Lieberman…

If you've danced at a nightclub or festival in the past 20 years…
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PLSN

Success in XS

LD Steve Lieberman Incorporates New Lighting, Video Gear…
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LA Weekly

Steve Lieberman: The Man…

It's Friday night at EDC Las Vegas, and at the Circuit Grounds stage…
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mondo*dr

SJ Lighting Redesigns XS Nightclub

The creative force behind many leading nightclub lighting designs, renowned Lighting Designer Steve Lieberman…
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Live Design

EDC NY 2015 Gear Lists

Electric Daisy Carnival swept through New York May 23 to 24…
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Live Design

The Road To Excess

XS Nightclub at Encore at Wynn Las Vegas has been the top-grossing nightclub for three…
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Magnetic Magazine

NAME DROPPING WITH STEVE LIEBERMAN…

Have you ever wanted to know who was behind all the amazing light shows? This is the guy!…
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Live Design

Elation Helps Push The Limits…

SAN DIEGO, California – As founder of install firm SJ Lighting, Inc., Stephen Lieberman…
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Live Design

Let Them Eat Cake

This summer EveryDay Life (EDL) co-founders Tosh Berman and Amrou Manaseer opened Cake…
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Billboard

Drai's Beach Club & Night Club…

Rising stars take the reins as nightlife mogul Victor Drai unveils his lofty new Las Vegas Beach Club's…
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Live Design

LDI And BPM Announce EDM@LDI

New Component of LDI Will Include Show Floor for DJs/VJs, Live Demos…
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Variety

EDM Impact Report

For years, people used to tell me that I had the worst clients in the world…
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mondo*dr

Miami Marvels: Adore

Dressed in soft, luxurious, deep red furnishings, Adore nightclub in Miami Beach takes inspiration from…
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mondo*dr

Miami Marvels: Story

A culmination of talents behind two of Miami's most successful nightclubs, LIV and Amnesia, Story is a unique destination…
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PLSN

Drai's Nightclub in Las Vegas Equipped…

LAS VEGAS – Elation lighting plays an integral part in the lighting design by Steve Lieberman of SJ Lighting…
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PLSN

Marquee Nightclub's Immersive Experience…

LAS VEGAS – Marquee Nightclub is consistently one of the highest grossing nightclubs in Las Vegas…
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Live Design

SJ Lighting's Plots For Life Nightclub

What happens when an old theatre is repurposed as a new nightclub? Life, a new mega-club at SLS…
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Live Design

EXCELLENCE AWARDS: Marquee New York

Marquee Nightclub in New York City was completely gutted and renovated, with lighting and video design by Steve Lieberman…
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Vegas Seven

Let There Be Light

The lighting/VJ team of Steve Lieberman and Vello Virkhaus flip the switch on EDC 2013…
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SPIN

Waiting for the Drop…

As outside money continues to flood in, promoters, DJs, and production designers compete to generate…
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Lighting & Sound America

Daisy in the Desert

"Electric Daisy Carnival Upstages Its Lineup." So went the playful headline in Billboard describing…
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Lighting & Sound America

SJ Lighting Adds SGM LED Strobes…

Based in Southern California, Stephen Lieberman has been lighting clubs and discos for 25 years…
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Live Design

Ultra Sound At Ultra…

Ultra Music Festival, billed as "the world's premiere electronic music festival," has grown over…
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PLSN

Electric Daisy Carnival 2012

Insomniac Events' three-night, dusk-to-dawn Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC), drawing more than 300,000…
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Elation Lighting

Lights Out: Stephen Lieberman…

As a lighting designer, Stephen Lieberman, owner of SJ Lighting in Agoura Hills, CA, has consistently struck a balance…
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Live Design

Las Vegas, Are You Ready?…

Jay-Z and Chris Martin were in the house. Superstar DJs whipped the crowd into sheer frenzy as the…
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Live Design

Las Vegas, Are You Ready?…

Show Motion built the six light pods that move up and down on a large automated truss over the dance floor at Marquee…
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PLSN

Designing for Nightclubs

Designing for nightclubs is vastly different then designing for a stage. Don't take our word for it…
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Clay Paky

Clay Paky at Ultra Music Festival…

Clay Paky lighting has featured prominently at the world's largest festival of electronic music held in Miami, Florida…
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San Diego

Hip Hop is Back in San Diego With F6ix

If you thought hip hop was dying, you thought wrong. With dirty house beats invading almost every nightclub in the Gaslamp…
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Nightclub and Bar

Visual Assets

Nightclubs always have been places to see and be seen, but the emphasis is falling more on the former as astounding…
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PLSN

Strategic Planning, Creative Design…

LAS VEGAS – The Electric Daisy Carnival has been staged for 15 years, and the biggest one by far – besting even…
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ACT Lighting

grandMAs and Clay Paky Lighting Fixtures…

At its first ever three-day event, Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) put the petal to the metal and roared onto the…
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Nightclub and Bar

SHRINE at MGM Grand at Foxwood

SHRINE at MGM Grand at Foxwoods brings a Las Vegas-style nightlife experience to the MGM Grand at Foxwoods…
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Nightclub and Bar

ORO Sets the Gold Standard…

"This is fantastic," Erick Morillo grins as he surveys the room from the elevated DJ booth, which he'll take…
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Nightclub and Bar

How to Properly Layer Your Lighting

But it's more than the lighting that makes a club's visual components truly come alive…
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