Posts Tagged ‘clickspring design’

Winner of ‘Best Set of 2009′ announced

WPBF-TV, the ABC affiliate serving West Palm Beach, Fla., has won the first NewscastStudio “set of the year” contest by a large margin.

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2009’s best set designs

2009 was a challenging year for the television news business and it’s no question that was reflected in the set design industry.

Combined with the bad economy and end of the first wave of HD newscast conversions, there were significantly less sets going in around the country.

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Clickspring awarded Emmy for CNN election set

Clickspring Design’s work for the CNN 2008 U.S. Presidential Election coverage was awarded the Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in scenic design. The News & Documentary Emmy Awards recognize outstanding achievement in news and documentary programming by conferring annual awards of merit.

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Clickspring wins Gold BDA for CNN election set

During the recent Promax|BDA awards, Clickspring Design was honored for its CNN Election set design.

CNN charged Clickspring with realizing two primary objectives for election coverage. First: to communicate unassailable editorial expertise. The headline “CNN = Politics” established an equation for all design and production related to the election season.

The secondary objective was to create a branded alignment between multiple events — twelve debates, five primaries and election night. Developing live events with audiences ranging from 200 to 2,000 in size, and addressing the realities of live video production — two very different lenses — needed careful synchronization.

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Fox Business Studio G added to SetStudio

We’ve added exclusive photos from Clickspring’s latest set, Fox Business’s Studio G. The studio is located on the second floor of Charles Schwabb offices on Avenue of the Americas in downtown New York City.

The studio uses a mix reds and grays to create a modern perch above the city streets. The set also features a “vault” door and many money and banking refrences.

Additional photos of WCAU set added

We recently heard from our friends at Clickspring Design, the folks behind WCAU-TV’s new set as well as the combined NBC-MSNBC newsroom in Rockfeller Center. They provided us with some professional photos of the WCAU set in Philadelphia, which have been added to the photo gallery here (click to the second page to see them).

New set firm springs into new designs

Though a new firm, Clickspring Design is backed by experienced designs who have created many high-profile sets at some of the biggest names in television.

According to the firm’s Web site, the firm places emphasis on “experiential design” that is defined as “dimensionalizing client-specific content and communication objectives through environmental design.”
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