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About NED
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With over 30 years of experience, NED has worked internationally with owners, architects, directors and producers to create one-of-a-kind, world-class entertainment facilities and lighting design on land and at sea. Just a few of its services include entertainment systems such as audio, video, projection, rigging, stage mechanics, special effects, control systems and broadcast systems.
NED draws on a depth of experience in a wide range of lighting and systems design from television spectaculars to the corporate theater/sales meetings. The company has been involved in theatre consulting for a wide range of entertainment facilities such as multimedia, fine arts performance, Las Vegas-type showrooms, cabarets, dance clubs and discos, as well as fountain lighting design, museum and architectural lighting for all types of public spaces. For further information and capabilities, please go to: http://www.n-e-d.com |
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We are very proud to be able to present our work on the Choctaw Casino Resort this month. Also included in this newsletter is the Costa Deliziosa project and several lighting design projects including the RSA Computer Security Conference, the Hewlett Packard TSG Tour and the GM Exhibit at the Chicago Auto Show.
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 Choctaw Casino Resort, Durant, OK
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With the grand opening of the Choctaw Casino Resort in Durant, OK on February 9th, a massive three-year project came to completion. NED was charged with all interior lighting and audio/video design including the installation supervision and commissioning of those components.
Owned and operated by the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, the resort is a much-needed addition to the very successful original casino resort. Designed by the architectural firm WorthGroup, NED worked closely with their Vice President of Design, Brian Hamlin to create elements that spoke of the Choctaw Nation and their relationship with their past but interpreted with a modern flair.
Interior Lighting Design
 For lighting, NED and the architectural firm designed close to 200 custom chandeliers and lighting features for the building. The most striking are three video chandeliers composed of 4 x 4 foot boxes containing LED panels. These chandeliers display video images through their crystal-encrusted exterior to set the mood and ambiance for the elevator lobby.
Audio/Visual Design
 A hallmark of NED design is to give the owner great versatility with the lighting and audio/video systems. The Choctaw audio/video system allows employees the flexibility to select what video and/or audio feeds are appropriate at any time for their clientele. The digital signage system, consisting of 42 different channels of streaming content offers the ability to change feeds to any of the facility's 190 displays. Guests can request their choice of program on any of the 24 video monitors located in the gambling table areas. Programming choices can also be made in the spa depending on the client's mood. The most flexibility is offered in the Diamondback Cabaret Lounge. A live feed of the performance can be sent not only to the large side screen in the lounge, but also to the numerous monitors throughout the casino and ancillary spaces.
The key personnel from the NED team were Denis McCubbin as Project Manager/Designer, Will Cooper-Daub as lighting designer and Tristan Gates as A/V designer.
NED is now in the planning stages with the WorthGroup for the renovation of the original Durant Choctaw casino that will include all lighting and audio/visual design services.
Bottom two photos by Darius Kuzmickas for WorthGroup
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Costa Deliziosa
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Dubai was the location of the first ever naming ceremony for a cruise ship in the Middle East. The event held Feb. 23 at Port Rashid was for the new Costa Deliziosa for which NED provided designs for all entertainment and broadcast systems including commissioning and inspection services. Additionally, NED coordinated and inspected the architectural lighting systems designed by the architect Joe Farcus.
 In the 800-seat, three deck high Duse Theater, NED provided the designs for the lighting, audio and rigging systems and integrated control system. Another entertainment facility for which they provided lighting, A/V and control system design was the Sharazad Disco which included a two deck high, 30-monitor video wall.
In the Lido pool area, NED provided design and project management for the giant, 190 square foot LED video wall used for live feeds, movies and other events for both day and evening use. Costa Deliziosa was built at the Fincantieri shipyard in Marghera, Italy and the entertainment systems were supplied and installed by HMS, Italia.
The next ship deliveries for which NED has consulted will be the P&O Azura at the end of March, followed by Seabourn Sojourn in May, Holland America Nieuw Amsterdam in June, and Cunard Queen Elizabeth in September. |
Lighting Design
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RSA Computer Security Conference
NED provided lighting design services for the RSA Computer Security Conference held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco the first week in March. Each year, RSA has a historic cryptology theme, and this year's was about the decoding of the Rosettta Stone. Included in the scenic design were approximately 60 Martin LC LED panels used for displaying images of hieroglyphics and other Egyptian themed graphics designed by Denise Miller. The video content for the LED panels was played back from a Hippotizer HD media server and controlled through the lighting desk. Lighting design was by Jim Tetlow, assisted onsite by Ashley Johnstone. Kurt Doemelt coordinated all of the media content and pre-programmed the cue sequences with a portable Pre-Viz system.
Hewlett
Packard TSG Tour
NED has recently completed the lighting designs for a 17 city world tour of presentations by Hewlett Packard executives, all of which were produced by Kaleidoscope Productions. Work is now commencing on several additional international locations, which are soon to be announced.
General Motors Exhibit at the Chicago Auto Show
Photo by Susanna Harris
NED provided the lighting design for the GM exhibit in Chicago, which consisted of nearly 80 cars and trucks. Onsite LDs were Kurt Doemelt and Susanna Harris.
Currently, NED is working on the lighting design for the GM exhibit at the New York International Auto Show and a special event for Cadillac being produced by Aquila Productions
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Military Bases - A/V Design
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NED
has recently been contracted for A/V system designs for the Naval Post
Graduate School in Monterrey, California and an educational building at
North Island Naval Air Station. Meanwhile, work continues on
installations designed by NED at other military bases including MCAS
Miramar, Camp Pendleton, Twenty-nine Palms Marine Combat Center, and
China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station.
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Thanks for reading. See you next time.
Sincerely,
Nautilus Entertainment Design |
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