7 Tips to Ease Your Printing Pains

Optimizing artwork for large format printing

Mountain Productions' large format banner/scrim printing

Festival branding printed on vinyl mesh (scrim)

A creative and bold graphic theme can elevate an event into an experience that not only sounds good, but also visually looks just as appealing. Festivals such as Lollapalooza, Hot 97 Summer Jam, Made in America and Boston Calling have created a tight unity between their brand and their performers by using dynamic artwork and cohesive, cross-application graphical themes.

Brainstorming possible ideas, selecting a festival theme, and then executing all of the graphic work for an event can be an impressive task. (As a graphic designer myself, I understand the pains and stress of this process!) The last thing you want is to end up with production issues with your submitted artwork, sometimes only days before your event.

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[EVENT RECAP] Beyond Wonderland

A few weeks ago we shared some photos from Insomniac’s Nocturnal Wonderland festival. While we were in California setting up staging for Nocturnal, our crew was also preparing for its next venture 400 miles north in Mountain View, CA. Following Nocturnal Wonderland, our equipment moved quickly to Mountain View for Nocturnal’s sister festival, Beyond Wonderland, which took place on the following weekend. Insomniac’s website describes the festival as “an immersive world where attendees will be surrounded by vibrant performers, decorations, art installations, and more.”

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[STAGING SPOTLIGHT] Softgoods – For a variety of application and decoration

Softgoods are a great “finishing touch” to a stage aesthetic. Beyond providing first-rate advertising and branding space, softgoods are utilized for a variety of applications on our stages, both practical and decorative. Here are a few ways we use various vinyl, mesh and other softgood materials on our staging systems.

You’ll see many of our stages fit with black scrim to create a finished look to the structure. Our scrim shop uses a 14oz Vinyl Coated Polyester (VCP) Mesh as our standard black scrim. This material is tested and certified as flame retardant, ensuring a safe softgoods solution.

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Mountain Productions nominated for 2013 Staging Company of the Year Parnelli Award

We are proud to have been nominated for the upcoming Parnelli Awards as a contender for the Staging Company of the Year award. It’s an honor to be able to provide our services to the industry another year, and we wish the best of luck to all of the nominees. It is the combined effort of the dedicated companies in our industry that make each and every event possible.

Voting is exclusive to PLSN subscribers. Visit http://www.parnelliawards.com/vote.php to cast your vote!

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