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  • Lumamerica, LLC Uses Apollo Gobos in Southern Florida

    Lumamerica, LLC Uses Apollo Gobos in Southern Florida

    Lighting Design Principal Timothy Brenden Stout of Lumamerica, LLC, has been illuminating events and providing stage lighting equipment in Naples, Miami, Palm Beach, and the surrounding areas since 1988. Apollo Dealer Miami Stagecraft, Inc. keeps Tim supplied with Apollo Gobos and other products needed for his social, wedding, and corporate events. “Tim has been a long-standing customer of Miami…

  • New! Project Your Praise Gobo Collection

    New! Project Your Praise Gobo Collection

    In support of Frontline Workers and Businesses, Apollo has added a New Apollo Gobo Standards Collection to help your customers Project Praise during this Coronavirus Pandemic. Project Your Praise Apollo Gobos are now available. Please Note: The Days of the Week Gobo is available for any day of the week in your choice of font –…

  • Geezers of Gear Podcast #103 Features Joel Nichols of Apollo Design®, AVID Labs®, and Blue Pony

    Original Air Date: May 7, 2020 Check it out! Marcel Fairbairn, Podcast Host of Geezers of Gear, interviewed Joel Nichols, Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Apollo Design Technology, Inc.®, AVID Labs, LLC®, and Blue Pony. Click here to start podcast: http://geezersofgear.com/103-joel-nichols-of-apollo-design-avid-labs-and-blue-pony Let Apollo, AVID, and Blue Pony know how we can help you. Contact sales@apollodesign.net.

  • Blue Pony & Apollo Design® Team Up on #INthistogther Project

    Apollo recently worked with Blue Pony, one of our sister companies, to send a big #INthistogether message with a small Apollo Custom Gobo. Do you have frontline organizations and businesses in need of specialty gobos? Check out our NEW Project Your Praise Standard Gobo Collection. Apollo is open for business — and following safe practices. We’re here for you!

  • AVID Labs® DIY Facemask MaskClip™ Kit

    Now you can create facemasks easily with an AVID Labs® MaskClip™ kit — anyone can use it to help prevent shortages at hospitals desperately in need. An AVID Labs® MaskClip™ kit comes with 4 plastic MaskClips™ available in black, white, or red, a shop towel, and 2 elastic bands. The kit allows you to fashion…

  • Apollo Created 227 Keystoned Gobos in 2019

    In July 2018, Apollo released a video about Keystoning Apollo Gobos using our new and improved keystone method, and how it saves time and money. Apollo used to keystone gobos by hand. We’ve now automated the system. What used to take 2-4 hours now takes about 2 minutes. Sales of Apollo Keystoned Gobos in 2019 would have taken 681…

  • AVID Labs® Announces New Hires Ready to Serve Customers

    AVID Labs, LLC® announces the appointments of Connor Digan and Aaron Prins. CONNOR DIGAN Connor Digan accepted the position of Project Manager for AVID. Digan graduated from Bishop Dwenger High School in Fort Wayne, and Purdue University in West Lafayette with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering Technology. Joel Nichols, Chief Innovation Officer for AVID and…

  • Apollo Participates in 4Wall Virtual Vendor Showcase

    Apollo participated in the first of its kind Virtual Vendor Showcase hosted by 4Wall in April. We were pleased with the feedback during the event. Some discovered that Apollo and our sister companies AVID Labs and Blue Pony are capable of creating much more than they knew. With three companies under the same roof, our capabilities are impressive, even more so…

  • Around the Water Cooler: The History of Dichroics

    Apollo Design® first offered Dichroic Glass Filters in 1998. We felt a need to refresh our memories of Apollo Dichroics and thought you might want to join our ride down memory lane. Before we dive into Apollo dichroic products, we want to briefly highlight the beginnings of dichroic glass by the Romans, followed by modern-day dichroic technology in the…

  • PSAV and Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn & Spa Team Up with Apollo

    If you were in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area on a Monday evening in April, you might have witnessed a curious expression — buildings illuminated in purple, the official color of hospitality. The community recognized the thousands of hardworking hospitality professionals. They make travel and tourism the area’s number one industry. PSAV (External Link)used Apollo…

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