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The Duke of Spandex 1 Comment Read more »

The Duke of Spandex

Duke created this design using loads and loads of poly stretch and spandex to make 3 and 4 point shapes and lighting them up with LED fixtures.


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Faith in the City

Scott Spierling at New Life Community Church in Pismo Beach, California created this design for their series through scriptures looking at people who risked their lives for their faith. The set mirrored the logo for the series, based around a road sign. The set, constructed of…


What’s Going on in Nigeria? 1 Comment Read more »

What’s Going on in Nigeria?

This site needs a bit more international representation..so here we go! Check out this design used at Christ Embassy in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. Livingston Okpakhalu Daniel submitted this design that’s used for their program, Prevailing Word, on Love World SAT. According to Livingston Okpakhalu…


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Office Party

You know those fluorescent light covers used in office buildings? They can be used for some pretty cool stage design elements! Cool, right?! Joel Wyant, the Worship Lighting & Scenic Designer at Southeast Christian Church in Louisville, Kentucky used these for their Night of Worship event. Because of…


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Wave to the Nice People

Todd Bougher at The Rock Family Worship Center in Alabama created these cool wave walls. (Somewhat similar to the Ray to Wall post from about a month ago.) He designed three 10′ structures from wood, and used Natural color coroplast to diffuse the light from LED…


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The Beauty of Wax Paper

Mike Defraties at Faith Christian Family Church in Rushville, Illinois used this design for their summer camp series (Summer Scream Twenty10). Mike used 5 pieces of corrugated metal that had been sitting around the campus for a few years and lit each of them with single PAR64…


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Who Hung the Drapes?

Another fine design by Duke Dejong. This design used 10′ wide by 20′ tall strips of white Poly Sheen fabric scrunched together to give it some texture. It was hung from a floor supported truss structure. The fabric had a pipe pocket sewn onto the top…


Metallicious 7 Comments Read more »

Metallicious

This design comes from Jeremiah Ramer from High School Student Ministry at Second Baptist Church in Houston, Texas. Simply put, Jeremiah hung some corrugated sheet metal with light-weight chains. He then front-lit them to create some really exciting colors and textures.


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A Child’s Dream

The set was accomplished using corrugated metal, shoji screens, acoustical panels, televisions, and LED lighting. Better be prepared to body check kids wanting to play around on the stage.


Can It! Leave a comment Read more »

Can It!

Todd Bougher at The Rock Family Worship Center in Huntsville, Alabama, built this very inspiring stage design from 200 paint cans and light bulbs. The frames for the paint cans/light bulbs are built from 2x4s and masonite, with sheets of coroplast behind the arrow frames. The arrows…


Tubey or Not Tubey 3 Comments Read more »

Tubey or Not Tubey

Check out this cool idea from Travis Williams, the Technical Director at Crossroads Church in Douglasville, Georgia. Travis was able to simulate Versa Tubes using 2 extra projectors he had laying around combined with home-made screens made from PVC pipe. Check out the effect in this video:…


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The Building Blocks for Success

Another sweet set from Benjamin James Hunt, the Lighting and Scenic Director from Browns Bridge Community Church in Cumming, Georgia. Reminds me a bit of a stage I might have created with Legos…my favorite childhood toy. Using left over 2x4x6 foam blocks, they carved forms and layered the…


Ray to Wall 6 Comments Read more »

Ray to Wall

Check out this Youtube video from the Buckhead Church team showing the transition between two awesome stage designs. One using some cool light panels…the other using a really cool wave wall. Get some inspiration!


The Softer Side 2 Comments Read more »

The Softer Side

A sweet set from Benjamin James Hunt, the Lighting and Scenic Director from Browns Bridge Community Church in Cumming, Georgia. This set incorporates floating translucent fabric, foam brick walls lit from the ground, and some sweet patterned panels.


Red Waterfalls 6 Comments Read more »

Red Waterfalls

Open up your stage decoration by flying some fabric waterfalls behind the band and speaker. Duke Dejong hooked up this stage design using sections of Poly Sheen fabric flowing down the backdrop.


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