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Steven Douglas uses Ayrton MagicDot-Rs for The Killers’ logo

Steven Douglas uses Ayrton MagicDot-Rs for The Killers’ logo

To showcase The Killers’ logo of a ‘K’, lighting designer Steven Douglas has chosen Ayrton’s MagicDot-Rs. “Being able to mount the MagicDots closer together, because they are so small and do not move outside of the radius of the head itself, meant that the concept was now a workable design. I spent a lot of time going back and forth with the guys at Ambersphere Solutions getting them lay out fixtures at different intervals and send me pictures so I could see in real life the gaps I had toyed around with in Vectorworks,” the LD explains.

 

Douglas was concerned that, by trying to replicate the band’s logo exactly, the dots would be too close together and simply produce a clump of light with little or no definition. Scale was also an important factor; the super-size ‘K’ needed to be in proportion to the stage and the lighting rig without losing the identity of the original font in the logo.

 

“Once we had figured out what we reckoned was the right separation between the units so we had clarity between each dot but retained a clear connection with the logo, I arrived at Ambersphere with biscuits in hand so we could do a proper shoot-out”, Douglas continues. “It was essential that the MagicDots were not going to be too bright when pointing straight out into the audience even though I only use them at full-on and directly into the FoH area twice in the show.”

 

The supporting framework was constructed by All Access. To complete the look of the piece, Douglas asked for a rail to be built around the edges which are rigged with Ayrton MagicBlade-R fixtures. The whole frame splits into eight sections and the MagicDot-R units are permanently set into the sections that travel in custom-made set carts.

 

(Photos: Erik Kabik)

 

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Steven Douglas uses Ayrton MagicDot-Rs for The Killers’ logoSteven Douglas uses Ayrton MagicDot-Rs for The Killers’ logo

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