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When the Show Must Go On — For Years: What Permanent Installations Demand

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...

Why Your Best Ideas Come in the Shower — And How to Make It Happen More Often

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...

How Twenty Years of Designing for the World’s Biggest Stages Actually Started: In a Utah Scene Shop

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...

Five Productions That Define Where Studio Bound’s Production Design Stands Today

25 Apr 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen

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...

Why Studio Bound Exists: The Production Design Practice Built Where Vision Has to Survive Physics

30 Mar 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen

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...

Ten Years, Five Continents: Studio Bound’s Complete Production Design Portfolio

21 Mar 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen

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...

Three Countries, Three Completely Different Problems, One Production Design Process

19 Mar 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen

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...