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.
30 May 2026 3 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen $0.08
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 $0.14
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 $0.18
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 $0.08
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 $0.07
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...
25 Apr 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen $0.02
Studio Bound was founded in Singapore ten years ago on one conviction: designed environments shape how people connect. Not only what they see. What they feel. Whether the work appears in a ceremonial space watched by millions or a theatrical residen...
30 Mar 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen $0.01
Studio Bound was founded in Singapore in 2015 on one structural principle: the people imagining the production and the people responsible for building it should never be separated into different departments. The name carries its meaning deliberately...
21 Mar 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen $0.01
Studio Bound was founded in Singapore in 2015. In the decade since, the practice has operated across five continents — designing environments for ceremonies, broadcasts, themed attractions, and live events from Las Vegas to Riyadh, from Olympic broa...
19 Mar 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen $0.00
Most of production designer Patrick Larsen’s work happens in studios or stadiums. But some of the most instructive challenges come from projects that need to work night after night in completely different parts of the world. Three recent productions...
19 Mar 2026 4 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen $0.03
Some work is defined by its scale. Some by its stakes. The work Studio Bound does is defined by both simultaneously. A 130-metre projection dome that must feel intimate. A broadcast environment that reads identically for a stadium audience and a tel...
