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Apollo is celebrating two employee’s anniversaries this month: Lisa Reader, Accounts Payable Shane Delagrange, Shipping and Receiving We deeply appreciate the contributions they make to Apollo Design®. Congratulations, Lisa and Shane!

Axxis Inc. recently produced the 2019 American Cancer Society’s Hope Gala: A Night Among Stars fundraising event. The Gala celebrated survivors of cancer – “Cure Champions” – and their families while raising a record amount for cancer research. Axxis used Apollo Stars Random Gobos to light up the ballroom walls around the Hollywood-inspired set. By creating a ground-supported…

Main Street Arts is a community arts center specializing in performance arts under the leadership of Artistic Director David Stern. Main Street Arts used Apollo Gel to create the enormous 40’ x 20’ backdrop pictured above. Opera net provided the structure for the piece, with fabric dipped in flex-glue for the leading. The gel was hot-melt-glued to the…

Santa-approved Holiday Gobo Ornaments and other gifts are available at Apollo Outlet. Lighting designers, stagehands, performers, and others in the entertainment industry will applaud these unique Apollo gobo ornaments, as well as Gobo Earrings, and personalized Wrenches. Shop online 24/7. Questions? Contact us through our contact form.

What do Apollo gobo designs Halloween Skull, Eye Soup, and Graveyard 2 have in common? Kier LaCrosse of Allegra Entertainment & Events, a scary good San Francisco Bay area event production, lighting, and audio-visual magician. Kier and his ghoulishly talented team created this memorable experience at the California Historical Landmark, Carolands Chateau, in Hillsborough, California. The mansion is over 46,000…

Our November Anniversary crew holds vital positions within Apollo: Mary Harrison, Customer Care Rep Bill Harrison, IT Specialist Nick Picciuto, CFO Even if you don’t know them personally, their work benefits our entire team and you. Mary, Bill, and Nick, we’re sending you warm wishes!

Thank you, John Dolphin, of Candela, LLC, for sending pictures of theatrical productions utilizing standard Apollo Gobos, including The Will Rogers Follies (Windmill Western and Circus Tent) and Ragtime (Ms. Liberty 2). These images capture the effective use of gobos in the theater. John, you’re this month’s winner of a $25 Amazon gift card. Enjoy! Please send us…

By Keith Kankovsky, Apollo Senior Executive Fort Wayne’s City Light and Power Plant provided electricity to the bustling city from August 1908 until March 1975 when the four coal-powered steam generators fell silent. The building stood vacant for 16 years until Indiana and Michigan, and many other donors began a $9.2 million renovation project. The…

Thanks to a Lilly Endowment grant of $7.6 million to Shining a Light on Indianapolis, the Soldiers and Sailors Monument project will forever change the way Hoosiers and guests of the city experience Monument Circle – The Crossroads of America. The project headed up by Downtown Indy, Inc. and the Indiana War Memorials (IWM), under the leadership of…

The improved Apollo GoboPro+ was recently installed at the entrance of a surgical wing in a midwestern hospital to warn hospital personnel and guests who may miss the sign located on the ceiling. The Custom Apollo Gobo was keystoned to account for the wall-mounted GoboPro+ location. The “before and after” photos below show how keystoning corrects a skewed image and resulting…