Live Design Awards Ceremony

Live Design presented its Lighting and Projection Products of the Year, as well as Third Annual Excellence in Live Design Awards, at a ceremony Monday night. Honorees, designers, manufacturers, and press from around the world were in attendance.
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Lighting Product of the Year Awards were presetned to (l to r): Vince Herbert of Royal Shakespeare Company and Adrian Black of Total Structures (for RSC Lightlock); George Masek of Vari-Lite (for VLX Wash); and Miles Dudgeon of Prism Projection (for Reveal CW).

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Awards were presented for Projection Products of the Year to Mark Ouwerkerk of Christie Digital (for the M-Series); Loren Barton and Chris Curran of TMB (for Green Hippo VideoMapper and Carallon DVI Parrot); and Dave Hill and Cindy O'Shea from Ableton (for Ableton Live).

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Chris McMeen of Scharff Weisberg Lighting, LD and professor at Carnegie Mellon Abigail Rosen-Holmes, and programmer Sean Cagney.

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Excellence Awards winners (front row, l to r): Kobi Hoffman of Jiminy Creative; LD Herrick Goldman; LD Stefan Beese; associate LD Anjeanette Stokes of Michael Riotto Design; (back row, l to r): David I. Taylor or Arup; Kevin Lawson, Robert Roth, and Robert Peterson; Edd Griles and Chip Rachlin of Creddible Productions; and David Atkinson, also from Michael Riotto Design.

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Excellence Award winner LD Herrick Goldman and his associate, Susan Nicholson.

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Lighting designers Michael Gottlieb and Jeff Croiter.