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Spring 2013

The spotlight is on our automotive design work in this issue. This winter and spring we have been busy with car shows and press events which included craning  a vehicle to a sixth floor terrace in San Diego, as well as lighting a race track for a car launch in Austin.   We have also been working on several new cruise ship projects and are starting up on a large hotel resort project as well.

 

Since the focus is on our automotive projects, please have a look at an interview with Jim Tetlow regarding lighting for car shows and press events in the May issue of PLSN, Projection, Lighting and Staging News
Designer Watch - LDs at Auto Shows: The Car's The Star

 

You might also be interested in reading Sonny Sonnenfeld's in-depth article on Jim's career in Lighting & Sound America. Download PDF  

 

If you have any questions about our credentials, please contact us.   

 

 

In This Issue
Lighting for Shows & Events
Upcoming Projects
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Lighting Design for Shows and Events

Shows and Exhibits

 

GM Exhibit Lighting at the Chicago Auto Show

GM at Detroit, Chicago & NYC Auto Shows
Detroit, Chicago, NYC Auto Shows  Working with Lightsource, NED designed the lighting for all of the GM exhibits at the Detroit, Chicago, and New York Auto Shows.  

 

In each case the exhibits were designed and fabricated by Czarnowski.   In Detroit, NED also designed the lighting for the Chevrolet and Cadillac press events, produced by Aquila Productions.  

 

 
GM Exhibit Lighting at the Detroit Auto Show
GM Exhibit Lighting at the Detroit Auto Show

Lighting for the Jaguar Product LaunchJaguar F Series Product Launch 

In Austin, Texas at the Circuit of the Americas racetrack, NED providing the lighting design for the American launch of the new Jaguar F series, their first true sports car in over 50 years.  Produced by Kaleidoscope Productions, the event featured 22 of the new F type Jaguars performing high speed precision driving.  As the show was at night, NED designed a lighting system for illuminating over a 1/4 mile of the track and a large part of the pit lane.

Jaguar F Series Product Launch
Jaguar F Series Product Launch - Circuit of the Americas Racetrack

 

Cadillac Announcement Show - Las Vegas  
Produced by the Detroit office of Jack Morton Worldwide, this show was presented at the Aria Resort in Las Vegas and featured the complete current line of Cadillac products as well as a sneak preview of many of the upcoming new products.  Sorry, but no photos were allowed...

 

 

Press Events

Chevrolet Impala Press Event

NED provided the lighting design for a press event in San Diego featuring the new model Impala.  The vehicle was craned from the street up to the 6th floor terrace of a penthouse apartment, where the surprised guests met and dined with the designers of the car.  This event was produced by the Detroit office of inVNT.


Chevrolet Press Event, San Diego
Cadillac and Chevrolet Press Events 

In Detroit, NED also designed the lighting for the Chevrolet and Cadillac press events, produced by Aquila Productions.  The Chevrolet Press event introduced the new Corvette C7 and the Cadillac event introduced the electric Cadillac ELR.  In New York, NED designed both a Cadillac event at Jazz at Lincoln Center, and a Chevrolet event at the Javits Center, both produced by Aquila Productions.  

Chevrolet Press event Introducing the new Corvette C7
Chevrolet Press Event Introducing
the New Corvette C7
Cadillac Press Event introduced the Electric Cadillac ELR
Cadillac Press Event Introducing
 the Electric Cadillac EL

 

 

Upcoming in the next few months. . .

  • Land Rover Announcement Show in July
  • General Motors Fleet & Commercial Vehicles Announcement Show in May
  • Toyota Announcement Show in August
Upcoming Projects
  • Mega-yacht exterior decorative lighting. In conjunction with Seastema, NED is designing a system of color changing decorative lighting using approximately 3 linear Km of LEDs.  The system spans the length of the ship and 5 decks high.  The system will be programmed with numerous color effects and will also accept an audio input for live music effects. 
  • New order - Holland America 100,000 ton cruise ship - to deliver in 2016 - responsible for all entertainment systems and also much of the architectural lighting design. NED has started work on designing all of the entertainment systems and a large part of the architectural lighting for this new project for Holland America.  The architectural lighting design includes all of the public areas created by Tihany Designs and all cabin lighting. NED is also coordinating with Y&S architecture for the lighting in some specialty areas such as the theatre. 
  • New order - Carnival Cruise Lines - to deliver in 2016 - responsible for all entertainment systems and architectural lighting design. NED is beginning to work on designing all of the entertainment systems and architectural lighting for this new 4,000 passenger ship for Carnival Cruise Lines. 
  • Ongoing - Costa Diadema - to deliver in 2014 - all entertainment systems.
  • Expansion of the Choctaw Casino & Resort in Durant, Oklahoma for Klai Juba Architects of Las Vegas. Nautilus is providing both interior and exterior architectural lighting design, and A/V system design, including digital signage.
  • Pepsi Ring of Honor awards at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC.
  • Cadillac new product event in NYC. October 2013.
  • Hasbas - portable audio system design for a Dreamworks themed parade in Macao.
 
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Thanks for reading.  See you next time.

Sincerely,
Nautilus Entertainment Design
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