Corporate Gobos / Logos

Corporate Sponsorship Concert Lighting Rental

June 4, 2014 By Brian King Leave a Comment

altitude dispensary lighting — Showcase your logo or your sponsors logo at your event with a gobo light.

Altitude dispensary in Colorado recently used three of our gobo projector rentals to light up their logo at a live concert at the end of April.

They have a great logo to work with featuring a mosaic of greens in the shape of two mountain peaks.The key to their logo was recreating green from their logo in a way that would project well. We did a one color gobo to make sure the light would stand up the the lighting.

Gobo lighting is a cost effective way to display your corporate logo or your sponsors logos at your event in a bright, eye catching and vibrant way.

Client: Altitude Dispensary
Date: April 20th, 2014

Rent High School Reunion Lighting

June 3, 2014 By Brian King Leave a Comment

Your high school’s logo in a light for your reunion and quickly personalize any space.

Lighting will make a big difference for your high school reunion. Use a custom gobo light to recreate your high school’s mascot logo and quickly personalize the space your reunion is in.

Rent uplights to add your high schools color to the space and add to the overall lighting levels of the venue that you are in. In this case they used blue and red to recreate the colors of Edison High School in Alexandria, VA for a 10 year reunion for the class of 2002.

Save money on lots of customized items and small displays and make a huge impact with lighting allowing your guests to not only see each other better but to personalize bars, clubs, hotels, pavilions or any other space your reunion might take place.

Rent lighting for your:

5 year high school reunion
10 year high school reunion
20 year high school reunion
25 year high school reunion
30 year high school reunion
50 year high school reunion

Find out today how much you’ll save and how much of an impact is possible by renting uplighting and decorations for your high school reunion.

Recreate the colors of your school anywhere with our rental uplighting.

Rent St. Patrick’s Day Lighting

February 21, 2014 By Brian King Leave a Comment

st patricks day green uplighting — Green uplighting on a fireplace for St. Patrick’s Day. Use a gold uplight in the fireplace with a pot to create a “Pot-o-Gold” effect.

St. Patrick’s Day is one of the most celebrated days of the year all around the world. Whether you’re actually Irish or just Irish for a day, March 17 is usually a day to eat, drink and be merry! Rental lighting is the perfect way to share the luck of the Irish with all of your St. Patrick’s Day party guests.

Rent Green Uplighting

Green uplighting will automatically transform your party space into the Irish Emerald Isle. Boring white community center? Bathe it in green uplighting. Dingy, dark and lifeless bar or pub? Completely green-ify it with green uplighting! Rent wireless uplights and use the built-in green color to completely transform your St. Patrick’s Day event with green walls and ceilings.

To kick it up a notch, request two controllers and you’ll be able to do a mix of green and gold lighting. Put the gold lights behind the bar to attract attention to the food and drinks, or decorate with a “pot of gold” and gold lighting in one section of the room. Use a wireless uplight in a large cauldron (the black ones from halloween work really well) to cast light from inside the pot. You can use a jar of dry-ice with the gold uplighting to create a really unique and fun effect. Add a rainbow Gobo Light rental on the wall nearby and your “pot of gold” is complete!

st. patricks day green lighting in a school gym — St. Patrick’s Day green uplighting transforms a school gym. Bliss lights on the ceiling create a green shimmering star effect.

Shamrocks, Leprechauns and Texture Lights

Project shamrocks all over your party when you rent texture lighting. Texture lighting will decorate the walls of your event with shamrocks. Adding that to your green uplighting will complete the ambiance of the perfect St. Patrick’s Day party! It’s a lot faster than using stick-on shamrocks, or cutouts that hang from string, and you avoid the restrictions many venues have on hanging things from the ceiling of the venue. We have a number of patterns available including:

Shamrock
Rainbow
Leprechaun
Pot of Gold
Beer Glass
Irish phrases or simply “Happy St. Patrick’s Day!”

We can also customize any of our designs with your event logo for a completely unique look.

Shimmering Green Lighting

Make the walls, ceiling, or any surface in your space shimmer with slowly moving green stars/dots. This is a really unique effect that your guests will love. We use our bliss light rentals for this effect. They have a huge coverage pattern so you can bathe a really large area (50ftx50ft) and more with green starts/dots. Just turn off the blue nebula effect to keep the space green!

st. patricks day gobos stock templates — St. Patrick’s Day gobos that can be used as texture lighting to add Irish flair to your event.

St. Patrick’s Day Lighting – Rent Today!

St. Patrick’s Day party lighting is a must. Transform a boring space into the best party ever with our St. Patrick’s Day rental lighting. These types of rental lights are perfect for:

Bars or Pubs
Concerts
Tents
Hotel Ballrooms
Community Centers
Schools
House Parties

Contact us today to reserve your St. Patrick’s Day event lighting. Questions, ideas, comments? Share them in the comments below.

How to Choose a Gobo Size

February 10, 2014 By Brian King Leave a Comment

side by side comparison of different gobo sizes — Side by side differences in gobo sizes.

The gobo size that you need is based on the light fixture that will project that gobo. Many traditional theater style lights like a Source 4 ellipsoidal light or LEKO light will use a size B gobo (about the diameter of a coke can). Cheap DJ effect lights like the Chauvet Zoom or American DJ LED gobo projector use a custom gobo size that is about the size of a dime.

Why different gobo sizes?

It’s based on the the power of the light source.

More powerful light sources use bigger gobo sizes because there is more light to shoot through a larger template and the template needs more surface area to dissipate heat. Stronger light sources result in a brighter, bigger image but often comes at the expense of a larger sized light fixture.

Small cheap effect lights like the Chauvet Zoom, American DJ Gobo Projector LED are not recommended. These lights use teeny-tiny gobo templates to project with limiting detail and brightness. These lights may look good in a small dark bedroom or living room but don’t hold up to real life events of more than 30 people.

monogram wedding reception lighting mount ida farm — Example of a D-sized transparency gobo used at an event results in an extremely clear image.

Smaller gobo sizes mean there is less physical space to print detailed images. Smaller gobos are better suited for blockier, less detailed designs like the cross shape used in the smallest gobo in our example photo. More detailed designs like those used for weddings are better suited to larger gobo sizes (E-size or bigger).

When considering a gobo light this is what we recommend:

E-Size or bigger gobo
A light fixture that supports multiple lenses
At least a 30w (LED) light source

Common gobo sizes

Here is a table of some popular standardized gobo sizes and common light fixtures that use those gobo sizes:

Letter Size	O.D. (mm)	I.A. (mm)	Notes
A Size	100	75
B Size	86	64.5	Standard Size for Ellipsoidal lights (Source 4, Source 4 Zoom)
M Size	66	48	Source 4 Jr.
G Size	65.5	48	For Clay Paky Goldenscans
D Size	53.3	38	Martin PR-1, LEDSpot 40
E Size	37.5	28	LEDSpot 25, LEDSpot 30
O.D = Outside Diameter; I.A. = Image Area

The OD (Outer Diameter) number is the diameter of the actual template itself. The IA (Image Area) number is the useable are that can be used to print the image used for the gobo. It’s important to know these numbers when ordering a gobo, especially the IA. The IA can change from light fixture to light fixture even for commonly used gobo sizes. Make sure you know the OD and the IA of the gobo size for your particular lighting fixture you’ll be using for your event. Also know what types of gobos your light supports.

chauvet zoom gobo 2.0 vs LED 40 — Gobo sizes compared showing a Chauvet Gobo Zoom 2.0 vs. the LED 40 lights Superlative Events uses.

Bottom Line

When ordering a gobo know the OD and the IA of the light fixture you’re using. Realize that larger gobo sizes can support higher levels of detail in the resulting image. Most corporate gobos are B-size.

Questions, corrections, comments? Let us know in the comments below.

Will a Gobo Projection Show Up on Black Pipe & Drape?

January 30, 2014 By Brian King Leave a Comment

gobo projection on black pipe and drape — Gobo projection on black pipe and drape from 8ft away.

Many of our clients want to project their logos on to black or white pipe and drape and wonder if it will look good. Yes! The results can look great!

The gobo projector is bright, crisp, and clear enabling it to look great on any surface. Corporate clients like our gobo lights because they are easy to transport and come with accessories offering a simple flexible setup for any space. You typically don’t see your booth space until you get to the tradeshow and the last thing you need to worry about is if your logo will show up correctly.

In this example we wanted to show the gobo light setup projecting in a real world situation. We used one of our client’s logos for the projection right before the light shipped out to their event.

Notice the terrible overhead fluorescent lighting, cramped space and thin black tradeshow banjo fabric. We projected from a distance of around 8ft away from the fabric (what you might typically have in a small booth space) using a narrow 15 degree lens. The resulting image was about 2.5ft across and looked really bright on the black fabric. You can control the size of the image using the included lenses in the light kit so if you need a bigger or smaller image you can change it quickly and easily.

In small tradeshow booths you can also project on the ceiling or the floor in front of your booth space to increase the size and visibility of your booth. Each light features a slow rotation option if you wanted to add a dynamic moving component to your logo.

Whether your fabric or surface you are projecting on is black, white, red, blue, green, yellow, magenta or plaid, your image will look bright, crisp and clear.