Visual Terrain and Bandit Lites Honored with IES Illumination AwardBandit Lites announces it has been honored with the Award of Merit from the Illuminating Engineering Society's Chicago Section for its work on The Fillmore New Orleans with Visual Terrain, Ewing Cole, and LiveNation. The IES Illumination Awards program "recognizes individuals for professionalism, ingenuity, and originality in lighting design based on the individual merit of each entry." Located on the second floor of Harrah's New Orleans casino, The Fillmore New Orleans is a 2,200-person music venue with its own cultural flair on the iconic San Francisco club including wrought iron, local art and a large LED neon fleur-de-lis. Bandit Lites Systems Integration team worked with principal lighting designer Mike Mahlum of Visual Terrain to ensure that the meticulous design was executed as planned at every step of the construction process. "The concept for the project was a collaboration between the architect, the creative architect, and ourselves to pull in the feel of New Orleans and the look and feel of New Orleans, so there's a lot of color choices and decisions made that lead to that theming," says Mahlum. "Bandit saw the design through to the end," explains installation project manager John Jenkinson. "We were working through things on site; our team made sure the lights were installed correctly, performed as the designer intended and the design stayed true all the way to opening night." Due to Bandit Lites extensive experience in live venue operations, our team was especially equipped to design, install, and program the lighting controls systems for both stage and architectural lighting. These systems give the Fillmore New Orleans the flexibility to use their spaces for a variety of events from national touring artists to local special events while still highlighting the unique décor. 
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