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3-D Backdrop, Digital Printing and More!
Only Mozart had to work a tighter timetable than Rose Brand on his last opera, “The Clemency of Titus.” Thank you to LA Opera for the opportunity! Our integrated team of project managers, technical designers, sewing experts, scenic artists, digital printers and product procurers worked in coordinated fashion to produce the following for this amazing production:
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Printed Floor, Backdrop and Ceiling Tiles
We worked with blackwalnut llc to specify and build printed flooring, ceiling and backdrop tiles for the NBC Sports Winter Olympics studio. Concept and design planning begin years in advance of the Olympic games. In fact, the Olympic studio’s graphically intense scenic elements resulted from months of brainstorming and product sampling. NBC Sports and blackwalnut selected Rose Brand printed “Impact” floor for the Winter games’ studio because it installed much more quickly and provided greater flexibility than the tiles used in prior years. The flexibility enabled blackwalnut to quickly adjust their design on-site in order to create the jagged rock reveals in the fabricated deck.
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Arched Frame and Lighting Surface for Concert Tour
Working on the design for the Dispatch Summer tour, lighting designer Marc Janowitz asked us to create a floating visual surface for the tour’s lighting design. Janowitz’s concept relied on several rings of triangular stretch shapes floating in an arc 30ft in diameter, onto which he would project colored and textured lighting. Since the tour locations were mostly outdoors, concerns for wind and the elements had to be taken into account, as well as the typical fast, easy, tool-free load-in required by music touring in general.
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7 Backdrop Basics for Entertainment & Event Production
A helpful infographic that breaks down the different types of backdrops and their uses in theater, film, and event production.
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Custom Printed Wall Panels, Invisibly Framed & Acoustically Insulated for Gorgeous Architectural Interiors.
When the design team in charge of renovating and transforming Broadway’s Court Theatre into the James Earl Jones Theatre, their vision included a digitally printed wall treatment that would extend “seamlessly” from the Basement up through the 3rd floor. Each floor practically floats in space, mostly detached from the walls, which allows the imagery to flow without interruption up all four stories.
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Seamless Printed Digital Artwork at Montclair Art Museum
Ben Jones’s mural Envision Empower Embrace is based on selected imagery from his recent paintings which address events related to social justice, climate change, and environmental disasters.
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Rose Brand's Printhead Studio Shakes Up Digital Printing Industry with New Technology
Printhead Studio™, the newly re-branded digital printing division of Rose Brand Inc., introduces its new direct dye digital printer and expanded capabilities. Executive Vice President Josh Jacobstein says that "Our new state-of-the-art technology, combined with our digital printing experience in theatre and events, is a huge differentiator. We can now provide customers with incredible color accuracy in large format, 16 foot seamless, soft fabric drops."
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