Chauvet Wins Best Big Booth Award at LDI. Chauvet won the Best Big Booth award at LDI 2011 in Orlando. Crowds of guests gathered at the Chauvet booth, which featured the theme "Lighting Is INfectious." This isn't the first time Chauvet's creativity was recognized; in 2007 the company won Best Big Booth for its theme "It's Green Thinking." "I am very grateful for all the hard work and creativity that went into this INfectious presentation. Congratulations to all and special kudos to the marketing team, the product team and the tradeshow setup crew," said Albert Chauvet, CEO of Chauvet and Iluminarc. Almost 300 Chauvet MVP video panels were interlocked into a large-scale wall framing out the booth on three sides to create an immersive experience. Against that backdrop, a truss spider held over 200 fixtures, including the premiering COLORado Zoom Tour wash lights and Legend 412 LED moving yokes. At the floor level, a runway was flanked by Q-Wash 560Z-LED moving heads and the new revolutionary Épix Series of pixel mapping fixtures running on ArKaos Kling-Net protocol. It took four days for the Chauvet team to set up the "INfectious" booth, using seven universes of control and rigging about 17,000lbs of gear, including cables. "We used 46 pieces of truss, 31 motors, a custom-built motor control and ran about 2,000' of cable," said Mike Graham, product manager for Chauvet Professional. The creative team of Chauvet enlisted the help of lighting designer Chris Lisle, most recently involved in the Miranda Lambert tour, and of Scott Chmielewski, president of Digital Media Designs, and a programmer for the band Phish. Chmielewski helmed the controls and video integration, while Lisle spent more than 12 hours programming a show that featured 57 cues controlling 17 different Chauvet fixtures. The making of the Chauvet booth was foremost a labor of love. "Admittedly, we have a love affair with light-light fixtures, light design and lighting in general. Lighting is infectious!" said Berenice Chauvet, vice president of Chauvet. 
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