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5 hours ago 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
