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 distributed operation — specialists pulled together per project, working from wherever they are. And the projects are not small. Ceremonies, resident shows, themed attractions, broadcast environments, at a scale that usually screams "big office, everyone in one place." We do the whole thing remotely.
For a long time I'd have framed that as a compromise. I've stopped. It's one of the genuinely distinctive things about how we work, and I think it's a model more people should take seriously: you can deliver ambitious, complicated projects without ever putting the team in one building. The thing that makes it hold together isn't a tool or an app. It's trust.
Trust sounds soft until you try to run a company on it. In practice it's concrete. You hire people whose judgement is good enough that you don't need to watch them. You get clear enough about the intent that they can make strong calls without you in the loop. And you let go — because a remote studio where one person insists on touching everything doesn't scale; it just routes every decision through a single bottleneck and stalls.
The honest trade-off is almost funny for a visual guy: the work is nearly impossible to photograph. No busy floor, no wall of art — just windows on a laptop. The output is massive and the process looks like nothing.
But the upside settles it. The best people and the best projects are never conveniently in one city. A studio designed to run on trust instead of proximity can go wherever the work is. Twenty-five years in, I wouldn't build it any other way.
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About Patrick Larsen
Patrick Larsen is an Emmy Award–winning production designer and the founder of Studio Bound, a Singapore studio working across immersive experiences, themed attractions, live shows, ceremonies and broadcast design. Over more than two decades he has designed for the Expo 2020 Dubai ceremonies, Olympic broadcasts, Las Vegas residencies, and resident shows across Asia and the Middle East.
