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LDI 2008 Awards
Wally Russell Awards:
Wally Russell Most Promising Newcomer: Ben Hagen
Wally Russell Lifetime Achievement Award: Richard Pilbrow
Booth Awards:
Best Product Presentation: Fisher Technical Services for a truly elegant way of presenting rigging technology.
Creative Use of Light: Vari-Lite, for subtle and cohesive use of their entire product line to create an immersive lighting environment.
Best Small Booth: PixelRange for a vibrant use of LEDs in a very small area: eye-catching from afar while maintaining a comfortable environment in the booth.
Best Large Booth: Coemar, for using light as shape and sculpture, with a great use of colour and a good presentation of their product in a very user-friendly booth.
Designers of the Year:
Production Designer of the Year: Jeremy Railton
Concert Lighting Designer of the Year Award: Bryan Hartley
sponsored by Epic Production Technologies
Theatre Lighting Designer of the Year: Rick Fisher
sponsored by Strand Lighting
Debuting Product Awards
Sound: DiGiCo SD8 console, which features a lot of horsepower in a compact footprint, making it affordable and powerful.
Special Effects: City Theatrical DMX Snow Machine developed in conjunction with White Light.
Rigging/Staging: Steeldeck's APACK retractable audience tiering system that can be curved.
Projection: Element Labs Helix P1, which offers amazing display-shaping opportunities. It is flexible, durable, and has user-specific pixel pitch.
Honorable mention: United Visual Artists for d3-a paradigm shift in control environments for media servers.
Lighting (two winners):
Nila, a revolutionary new lighting solution for the entertainment industry setting an unprecedented environmental standard for low-energy consumption, while delivering unmatched lighting performance and product versatility.
ETC Unison Paradigm system, which fully fuses architectural lighting control advances with entertainment lighting-control technology.
Honorable mention: Protester 19 Mobal by Global Design Solutions at TMB
29th October 2008
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