The two-day publishing conference was held at the Millennium Mayfair Hotel in Grosvenor Square, London, serving the Periodical Publishers Association (PPA) on the Tuesday and the Association of Online Publishers (AOP) on the Wednesday. Pearce Hire worked alongside Hawk AV, with whom they have a long-standing professional relationship, providing the lighting under the direction of LD John Huson with Graham Festenstein assisting.
The companies built a predominately white set and used creative lighting to give it a different colour-scheme to suit the ambience and corporate branding for the proceedings on each day. Pearce Hire provided eight Futurelight MH-660 moving head profile fixtures and four Martin MAC 300 moving head washlights and a small selection of generic fixtures for the stage. They also provided two JEM Stage Hazers and 18 ways of Anytronics dimming. The lighting was controlled by a Zero 88 Fat Frog console to great effect.
Marcus Lawday of Hawk AV commented: "The brief from our clients was to change the entire feel of the set and room for the events over concurrent days, and with a strict budget we decided to build a predominantly white set, and change the feel with lighting. A combination of moving lights, colour washes and gobos, together with John and Graham's flexibility under time constraints, led to a very successful show and delighted clients."
(Lee Baldock)
