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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...
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...
8 Aug 2026 1 minute read 1 comment Patrick Larsen $0.09
If your creative output depends on inspiration showing up, you don't have a process. You have a gamble. Let me push back on one of the most beloved ideas about creativity: the muse. The story that you wait, inspiration arrives from somewhere beyond...
30 Jul 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen $0.02
Why the biggest canvas needs the most self-control. Think of astonishment as money in a fixed account. Every time you astonish an audience, you spend some, and the balance doesn't refill during the show. Spend it all in the first ten minutes and the...
21 Jul 2026 2 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen $0.10
Twenty-five years in, I've never once seen a lightning bolt. Here's what I've seen instead. In October 2025 I gave a keynote at World Stage Design in Sharjah — the quadrennial performance-design event, this time in the UAE. I started with work I had...
