Paper Partitions
Check out these really cool paper partitions you can buy made from recycled craft paper. These are available for $56/module set from a company called Mio with some pretty cool, green, nomadic cultural solutions.
Cubicles of Light
This beautiful cubicles of light are found at The Rock Family Worship Center in Alabama. Todd Bougher created these awesome light boxes out of spruce 2×2′s. The towers were 8′, 10′, 12′ high and wrapped with stretch fabric on the back side. Todd front lit…
A Circus of Circles
Todd Bougher at The Rock Family Worship Center in Huntsville, Alabama brings us these awesome stage structures. If you notice, they’re all the same pattern formed out of MDF (medium-density fiberboard). Pretty cool design for adding a bit of depth to a flat stage (great…
Stained Paper Panels
Patrick Fore from Journey Church in Norman, Oklahoma combined his passion for Illustrator and Photoshop with some stage design savvy to create these cool panels. He used Epson Backlit Paper (3′x100′ roll) through his wide format printer to create the paper patterns, then attached them…
Faux Neon
Check out this less expensive alternative to neon lighting you can use in your stage designs. It uses LED lighting and is much more flexible…so it can be used in versatile ways.
Worship Visuals
When I look through Worship House Media‘s page (my favorite site for motion backgrounds), it takes me so long to root through all of the “churchy”, cheesy, or lame motion backgrounds…and I figured there are others with this same problem. So I put together a…
Dinosize Your Stage
Looking to put a giant, wooden dinosaur skeleton on your stage or in your kids’ room? Probably not…but maybe you should. Check out these awesome options you have for throwing a gigantic dinosaur skeleton on your stage. Could be a perfect option for a series…
Bottle Trees
Got a need for some modern art to spruce up a stage or a boring corner of your foyer? Steve Mullins from Barefoot Church came up with this inexpensive stage accent to spice up your real estate. Using 10′ lengths of 3/8″ and 1/2″ rebar…
Light Boxes
Earlier in 2009 we did a series on worship called “That Thing You Do”. Our series graphics looked a lot like the poster for the movie, and I wanted to mirror that look on the stage. However, it was a short series, and I didn’t…
Paper Lanterns
One of my favorite new stage design elements is paper lanterns. They are so inexpensive yet so cool…plus you can get them in pretty large sizes which work well for stages. We’ve started using them at the Summit Church to light the room, but here are…
Truss Your Heart
I love trusses…they’re just so expensive. When we bought our circular truss that we hang in the middle of our building…holding our projector and stage lights…we found the cheapest place to get it. We spent $1600 for a 13 foot diameter triangular circle truss. Pretty…
Yo, Mondrian!
Mondrian was a Dutch painter in the early 1900s who used a certain concept in his paintings. Crossroads Community Church in Atlanta used this concept for part of their stage design. To create the Mondrian-themed pieces, they used 1″x2″ board bought from Home Depot or…
Shoji…Oh, Gee!
Sometimes you want a really cool backdrop but don’t have a lot of stage depth to play with. Japanese shoji screens are a great way to add some life and texture to a stage without taking up a lot of space. You can buy them…
Stage Drapery
John Weygandt, scenic designer at Willow Creek Community Church takes us through his favorite stage fabrics as well as giving us some ideas on hanging the fabrics. He talks a bit about the benefits of poly silk, nuvoile, and spandex (one of my personal favorites).…
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Lighting Design for Modern Houses of Worship
