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7 Jul 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Patrick Larsen $0.09
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 $0.27
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 $0.08
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 $0.16
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 $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...
