Services · Lighting · San Francisco Bay Area
The first thing a guest feels is the light. We design it to the inch of your venue, then run it live until the last dance.
A lighting plot is an argument about how the night should feel. We start with the moment that matters most, the walk-in, the reveal, the first dance, and design backward from it: washes to set the temperature, pin spots to draw the eye, beams and texture to give the room depth.
The gear is ours. An in-house inventory of conventional and intelligent fixtures, maintained by the crew that runs it, means the design we draw is the design that loads in. The same approach scales from a wedding dinner under bistro strings to a corporate general session in full rig.
How a Design Comes Together
The same crew carries the design from the first conversation to the last cue. Nothing is handed off, so nothing is lost in translation.
New to lighting language? Our plain-English guide covers pin spots, gobos, uplighting, washes and more, so you can brief us in your own words. Read Lighting 101: Essential Event Lighting Terms & Techniques.
Read the GuideWe design and run the lighting, shaped to your venue and the mood of your night. The tables, chairs, linens and furniture that fill the room come from Standard Event Rentals, our sister company, run by the same family right here in the Bay Area.
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Fixture count and type, design complexity, whether the rig hangs from points or works from the ground, programming time, and the labor to install, run and strike it. Venue access matters too: a tight load-in window or a long push adds crew hours. Tell us the room and the feeling you want and the quote will show you exactly where the money goes.
As soon as you have a date and a venue. Popular dates reserve gear and crew well ahead, and an early start gives the design time to develop alongside your other vendors. That said, a producer replies to every request within one business day, so it never hurts to ask about a near date.
Less than it used to. Modern LED fixtures are efficient, and many uplight and wash designs run on ordinary wall circuits. Larger rigs with moving lights or dance floor systems need dedicated power distribution, and outdoor sites may need a generator. We confirm what the venue can supply on the site walk, so power is never a surprise on event day.
Yes. Plenty of landmark rooms forbid hanging anything, and we design for that: ground-supported uplight, freestanding totems and towers, weighted bases and cable runs the house approves. We have produced in many of the Bay Area's protected and historic venues and start from their rules, not against them.
Yes. Washes and uplight can be tuned to a specific palette, and a custom gobo turns a logo, monogram or pattern into projected light on a wall, floor or ceiling. Send us the artwork and we will handle the rest.
The date, the venue or city, a rough guest count, and the moments that matter most to you. Inspiration photos help enormously. With those in hand, a producer replies within one business day with an approach and a number.
Tell us the room and the feeling you're after. A producer will reply within one business day.