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Designing a Show for the People Who Invented the Trick

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...

A Fully Remote Studio, Held Together by Trust

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...

Inside Hope Road: How Studio Bound Built Seven Worlds for Bob Marley in Las Vegas

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...

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

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...

130 Metres of Dome, 192 Nations, One Brief: Designing Expo 2020 Dubai

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...

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

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...

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

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...