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Michelle Branch
Fabric: Digitally Printed on Heavy Knit
Designed incorporated classic vintage speaker stacks concept. Artwork was all done by John Rios. Took concept and built art from variety of files.
Photo By: John Rios
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Kenny Chesney
Fabric: Direct Print on to Crystal Plaus {special order}
Kenny Chesney is well known for opening his show with a dramatic effect. This year a 100 and 20 foot wide Austrian mechanism lift system took down stage center. The dramatic and colorful logo backdrop was custom sewn to accommodate the lift lines of the Austrian mechanism. The glossy and bold design was magnificent when both front and back lit.
Photo By: Ed Wannebo
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Flogging Molly
Fabric: Heavy Knit
This is a digital print mixed media drop where all the windows were actually cut out. Under backlight the windows glowed, but as a front lit piece the gray tone palate gave a wonderful bold but multi-tasking surface (RE-touch).
Photo By: John Rios
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Little Big Town
Fabric: Direct Print Heavy Knit
This was a classic wallpaper step and repeat design single color that gave the client a lot of flexibility because it was 4 separate pieces. They were able to tie the drapes on in different configurations to in order to fully utilize a variety a of stage sizes at different venues. The white, unprinted elements, in the design took light beautifully and the general effect was soft and textural.
Photo By: Bobby Simmons
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Little Big Town
Fabric: Direct Print on Artist Lite
Custom design, by graphic artist John Rios, combining an American theme - the eagle - with a monster graphic background for a retro feel. This backdrop was used as Kabuki and is one of three layers that dropped away during the course of the little big town show, with each Kabuki drop revealing the next backdrop design.
Photo By: Bobby Simmons
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Little Big Town
Fabric: Heavy Knit
This was a dramatic and moody piece that was direct printed on the heavy knit. And we chose the cloth because it is a durable touring product, in this particular case we opted for vertical seems because of the line of the architecture of the building and tree line, and the areas without printing were designed in specifically to give the lighting designer the ability to use it not only a s a scenic drop but also as a cyclorama
Photo By: John Rios
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Sheryl Crow
Fabric: Direct Print to Artist Lite
When Paul Guthrie asked to produce this digitally printed wide format backdrop for Sheryl Crow we suggested using a flexible polyester based fabric named Artist Lite. A great printing substrate – the Artist Lite takes color well and is light and translucent. Ideal for large format backdrops where flexibility and vibrancy and translucency are important.
This direct print backdrop gives a dynamic and retro look to the stage and takes color well from both the front and behind. When back lit, the lighter areas offer greater translucency than those where the black ink was laid. It gives the lighting designer a very flexible palette to work with.
Sheryl Crow’s rental kabuki solenoid package provided by Rent What? Inc
Photo By: Paul Guthrie of Toss Film & Design Inc
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Brooks and Dunn “Last Rodeo Tour”
Fabric: Direct Print to Artist Lite
Sew What? Inc, the Theatrical Drapery Manufacturer of concert backdrops and stage drapes, was awarded the contract to provide a digitally printed wide format backdrop for country music notables, Brooks & Dunn. The dramatic looking backdrops which are now being viewed at their concerts were all produced in-house on a 120” Vutek printer on a flexible polyester based fabric named Artist Lite {http://www.sewwhatinc.com/sub_artist_lite.php}. A great printing substrate – the Artist Lite takes color well and is light and translucent. Ideal for large format backdrops where flexibility and vibrancy are important.
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Project: Great American Food Fest
Fabric: Direct Printing onto Standard Vinyl Coated Mesh and Matte Vinyl
This project involved lots of backdrops, banners and lots of signage – to fully brand the first annual Great American Food Fest. The files were all created in Illustrator, and were full color vector files. The American music and food theme ran thru all the various pieces. The standard vinyl coated mesh and the Matte Vinyl both meet the flame retardancy needs for the event and were durable for the outdoor installation.
What made this project challenging was the timeline – less than 7 days from delivered files to printed, finished and installed. Sounds like “fast food” to us!
Photo by: Lynda Vaughn |
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Project: Soulja Boy Backdrop
Fabric: Direct Print onto FR Clear Vinyl / Direct Print onto Heavy Knit
This was a really interesting mixed media print piece – a combination of traditional digital printing textile – Heavy Knit – and a non traditional substrate – Flame Retardant Clear Vinyl.
The concept designed buy Justin Collie of ArtFag, LLC was that the lenses of the sunglasses were to appear reflective – and give the effect of floating in front of the more muted tones of the colors of the American flag. This was a very successful effect – giving the appliquéd backdrop lots of bang for it’s buck. |
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Natural Point, OptiTrack Convention Booth
Fabric: Dye sublimation onto Heavy Knit
This was actually a series of pieces including dye sublimation wide format printing and Cambio! stretch shapes to complete an entire booth for OptiTrack. The printed signage element at the top was sublimated so as to achieve maximum color saturation and get a very bold output. The play between the black, the white and the PMS red had to be right on the money. Of course both Direct Print and Dye Sublimation can be used in such a scenario – however dye sublimation does tend to produce a more saturated color output.
Photo by: Jim Richardson with Natural Point |
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Project: Dierks Bentley Kabuki
Fabric: Dye Sublimation to Heavy Weight Poly Poplin
“You need a 30’h x 60’w in how many days?” …………….Production staff from Deirks Bentley knew where to call when they needed digital printing services for their tour. Dye sublimation to Heavy Weight Poly Poplin gave us the saturation of color required to really hit the CK and process blues in this logo embedded artwork. As it was to be used as a kabuki drop down stage and there were obvious vertical break lines in the art, we chose to produce the item with vertical seams which disappeared into the artwork.
Photographs by: Todd Ortmeier |
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Project: Digitally Printed Backdrop for The New Cars
Fabric: Digitally Printed Heavy Knit
Isn't this a great shot? And let me tell you - The New Cars sure did put on a good show. This photo is from their performance at the House of Blues show on Sunset Blvd.
Our multi-tasking digitally printed backdrop hangs behind them for personalization and displays their logo with clarity. With so many different substrates to choose from there is a digital backdrop for every band no matter the budget. Heavy Knit was selected as the best substrate for this project as is it low wrinkle and easy maintenance. Perfect for a tour where there is extended storage time between show dates and the backdrop will be stored folded.
Photo by: Jim Steinfeldt |
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Project: Triple Horse Installation – House of Worship
Fabric: Vinyl Coated Supreme Mesh
This direct print onto Supreme Mesh was a multi part piece – allowing maximum flexibility for actor entrances and exits as well as the potential to move to a smaller (or larger) stage location in the future. The angular “mosaic” style segments lent themselves stylistically to the piece of art – recognizable by all. Supreme Mesh is an excellent candidate for printing – often overlooked for indoor use. As seen in this example – it is indeed a very viable material for both indoor and outdoor use. The color saturation on the Supreme Mesh is very good, despite that fact that it is a mesh.
Photo by: Triplehorse Productions |
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Project: Jason Aldean Tour
Fabric: Direct Print to Heavy Knit
Heavy Knit is a premium substrate for durable and heavy weight backdrops. Offering excellent wrinkle resistance this substrate is a perfect match for tours or permanent installations. It takes bright colors well – making it an excellent candidate for a graphic as bold as this design for Jason Aldean. |
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Project: Cut drop for Lady Gaga Tour, Europe & Australia
Fabric: Digitally Printed Airtex / 15oz Encore Velour / Black
We were exited, and challenged, when we were asked to produce this extremely unique mixed media backdrop for Lady Gaga. Designed by Ray Woodbury of RK Diversified {www.rkde.net}, this piece combined a variety of stage effects and various textiles. The lower graphic area was direct printed onto Airtex. The cut drop was created by inserting areas of tiger mesh. Hidden smoke lines added live exhaust to the city skyline and a front projection screen build into the graphic brought the printed billboard to life. Over 200 LED lights were hardwired to illuminate "the fame machine" sign giving this custom piece a lot of interest and dramatically framing the stage. A dramatic backdrop for a dynamic artist!
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Project: Kenny Chesney Tour
Fabric: Direct Print
To achieve one of the most impressive reveals seen on the road – we participated in the automation of a digitally printed wide format backdrop by way of attachment to a custom SGPS ShowRig Motorized Lift System. With 120 linear feet of printed media – the center section of over 80 feet of backdrop was flawlessly and gracefully raised when 13 lift lines were operated. When fully raised the drape stacked neatly up in front of the truss above while the artist performed – ready to drop again at the end of the show. For this particular project where the client wanted “luminescence” when backlit, therefore we selected a 16 foot wide substrate with good translucency and a soft hand. This substrate provided intense color saturation and gives the image a projected appearance in a backlit scenario.
Photo By: Ed Wannebo, Production Manager.
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