One of the UK’s most exciting new lighting and visuals design partnerships, Co1ab, produced the edgy and eye-popping lighting show for a recent run of gigs by The Streets, led by gritty hip-hop raconteur Mike Skinner, and a project that helped define British urban music culture through the noughties! Co1ab unites the talents of Jon Trincas and Steve Hough, two respected young designers who … [Read more...]

ArKaos, the leading real-time visual processing technology provider for live performance and spectacular displays of all types, releases a performance boost to its flagship MediaMaster 5 real-time video control software platform. The new software version (v5.4) will boost rendering and performance of this powerful and flexible control system by 33% utilising the same hardware. This had been … [Read more...]

Alex Webb used 28 x Astera AX1 PixelTubes - battery powered wirelessly operated fully controllable LED RGBW batons - to create ‘The Heart of Manchester’, a 20-metre high heart shaped light sculpture on the Quay Street façade of the No. 1 Spinningfields building in central Manchester. Alex is a brand manager for Allied London, the property developer at the centre of evolving this vibrant area of … [Read more...]

The heady mix of highly tuned bikes, screaming engines, screeching tyres and brakes and supernatural speed races meshed with the breath-taking daring of motorcycle stunt acrobatics… indoor Motocross racing and Freestyle MX all rolled into a single adrenaline fuelled night of seat-edge action complete with pumping soundscape… and you have the heartbeat of Arenacross (AX)! Producers and … [Read more...]