The 2021 MTV VMAs (Video Music Awards) was back in-person, in style and with a live audience at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York City … and making it extra special this year the event celebrated its 40th … so the pressure was on for lighting designer Tom Sutherland of DX7 Design to smash it in terms of visual flair for the occasion.

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1.7.2025

Rock For People

The Rock For People music festival celebrated its 30th anniversary in style with an impressive 5-day event, an all-star lineup and an expanded capacity of 50,000 which saw a fully sold-out audience flock to the Park 360 site in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic – a former military airfield dating back to the 1930s – approximately 100 kilometres east of Prague.

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17.10.2025

Robe is Just the Ticket

The launch season of new Romanian TV talent show The Ticket premiered in September and is being recorded at Castel Studios just outside Bucharest. It is produced by Imagic and Antena 1 and lit by lighting designer / DoP Dan Andrei and lighting director Marius Matyas, using a large Robe moving light rig, which is owned by the Antena TV Group.

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9.10.2025

Robe T2 Profiles are Special

Lighting designer Marc Janowitz has enjoyed utilizing the power and versatility of Robe’s T2 Profile luminaire on several recent projects, including Trey Anastasio’s 2025 solo acoustic tour and two high-profile HBO specials – Brett Goldstein's “The Second Best Night of Your Life” debut stand-up special at the Bergen PAC (Performing Arts Center) in New Jersey, and Marc Maron’s “Panicked”, which was staged at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)’s Harvey Theater.

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3.10.2025

Robe Celebrates at Sziget 2025

One of the liveliest, friendliest, and most musically and performance diverse festivals of the European summer season, Sziget, in Budapest, Hungary, is also staged at one of the most picturesque locations, Óbudai-sziget (Old Buda Island), a beautiful foliage-rich, 108-hectare island on the Danube River, a short distance from Budapest city centre. This is transformed into a tolerant, inclusive, humanity-loving ‘Island of Freedom’ community for the 6-day duration of the event.