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.
15 Jul 2026 4 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen
Every production I've worked on where the design intent didn't survive the build had the same problem: a handoff. The creative concept left the room and entered a technical process handled by different people. Each step away from the original idea p...
7 Jul 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen
What Lila at Enchanting Valley taught me about continuity. Here's a principle Lila drove home for me: if you want a place to feel whole, don't design the show and the venue as separate jobs. Design them as one. Lila is the resident show at Enchantin...
6 Jul 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen
When the same person writes it, directs the vision, builds the set and designs the costumes, a show stops feeling assembled Here's a small idea about creative work that Varuna proved to me better than any project I've done: coherence is easier to bu...
3 Jun 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen
Most of production designer Patrick Larsen’s career has been built around work that disappears. Expo 2020 Dubai ceremonies that ran for one extraordinary evening. Broadcast sets rebuilt when a show changes format. Singapore’s National Day Parade — m...
31 May 2026 7 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen
I founded Studio Bound in Singapore and have led every commission in the portfolio from first brief to final installation. Over twenty-five years the work has spanned live event environments, broadcast design, permanent installations, and theatrical...
30 May 2026 3 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen
Every production design commission has an intended effect. Most commissions aim for wonder, or entertainment, or national pride, or the suspension of disbelief. Halloween Horror Nights 8 at Universal Studios Singapore — designed by Patrick Larsen an...
29 May 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen
Al Wasl Plaza in Dubai. 130 metres across. The world’s largest 360-degree projection surface. 3,000 lighting fixtures, 1,000 speakers, 1,300 costumes, 192 nations represented. When Studio Bound took on the Expo 2020 Dubai opening ceremony, those num...
27 May 2026 3 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen
The solution came in the shower. Not at the desk. Not in a brainstorm session. Not at two in the morning forcing an answer through exhaustion. Production designer Patrick Larsen had been working through a specific challenge for the Expo 2020 Dubai c...
26 May 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen
The first set production designer Patrick Larsen built was for a theater in Utah that seated a few hundred people. Regional productions. Tight budgets. An MFA from UC San Diego and a Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Award already in...
4 May 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen
When director Peter Wilson approached Studio Bound to design Varuna for Taman Safari Indonesia, the brief was Indonesia’s first underwater theatrical dining experience — environments that transform between oceanic realms while audiences eat, watch l...
