Patrick Larsen is an Emmy Award-winning production designer and founder of Studio Bound, Singapore. Over two decades he has designed environments for Expo 2020 Dubai, Olympic broadcast productions for NBC/BBC/CTV, Universal Studios Singapore, and theatrical productions across the Middle East and Asia. Visit studiobound.sg or read more at patricklarsen.studio This is where I write about the work.
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For years, production designer Patrick Larsen held a specific idea about what creative leadership looked like: enough experience accumulated to the point of walking into every project already knowing the answer. He started in Utah, building sets for...
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There are productions where the designed environment is the point. The audience comes for the environment — to be inside the world the designer has built, to move through it, to be changed by it. These are the productions where the production design...
13 Oct 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen $0.14
A practical rule for not falling in love with your own bad ideas. Here's a small, unglamorous rule that has saved me more than any burst of inspiration ever has: keep your ideas cheap and rough for as long as you possibly can. The reason is psycholo...
11 Oct 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen $0.08
Since 2024, my studio has produced the opening ceremony for IAAPA Expo — the toughest, most expert audience I work for. Here's a design problem worth thinking about: how do you open a show for an audience that builds shows for a living? That's the b...
30 Sep 2026 1 minute read 1 comment Patrick Larsen $0.10
The one rule I follow when designing outside my own culture. Whenever I design for a culture that isn't mine — which is most of the time — I follow one rule: study the people, never just the aesthetics. It's an easy rule to state and a hard one to k...
21 Sep 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen $0.13
When director Siobhan Ginty and JONES Theatrical Group approached Studio Bound to design Metaverse of Magic, the brief was about building worlds that could travel. The production toured Sydney Coliseum Theatre, Canberra Theatre Centre, and QPAC Conc...
21 Sep 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen $0.09
No office. No studio floor. Ninety percent of it happens on a screen — and that's the advantage. Quick fact that throws people: my studio doesn't have a room you can walk into, and about ninety percent of my work happens on Zoom. Studio Bound is a d...
8 Sep 2026 5 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen $0.20
When the Riyadh Season commission for Terhal came in, it was my second consecutive year designing for Saudi Arabia's flagship cultural entertainment programme — and the brief was a genuinely different challenge from Via Riyadh the year before. Via R...
4 Sep 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen $0.03
When Five Currents asked Studio Bound to help design Bob Marley: Hope Road, the brief was specific: create an immersive experience that lets people walk through Marley’s story rather than simply observe it. Not a museum. Not a concert. Something in...
4 Sep 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen $0.02
The two words are supposed to clash. That's the whole point. The book is called The Mystical Science of Creativity, and yes, those two words are supposed to clash. That's the whole point — the title is the argument, compressed. Creativity has been b...
