STUDIO HEADLINES

Cosmopolitan Magazine Covers Clickspring Inauguration Set

March 2, 2021 · Blog, Features, News Washington, D.C  2021 A new first for Clickspring Design, Cosmopolitan Magazine featured an inauguration article centered around CNN's female anchor leads and their experiences covering the historic event. Clickspring was engaged by CNN to update a variety of scenic pieces to ensure a safe broadcast equipped to maintain social distancing between talent for this coverage. This was just one of our many broadcast events and entertainment experiences that required updates to maintain safety during the Covid-19 era. Pushing into new coverage and media territory is always exciting on our end. Check out the full article here.... read more

Asharq News wins BroadcastPro ME’s Innovative Project of the Year Award

February 12, 2021 · Awards, Blog, Debuts, News Dubai, UAE  2021 Earlier this month, the winners of the annual Arab States Broadcasting Union BroadcastPro Summit and Awards 2020 were announced. Among the multitude of projects - Asharq News, Dubai - took home the Innovative Project of the Year. Two years in the making, this project has been a point of pride for the Clickspring team. Spanning four floors with a bespoke spiral staircase working it's way up through the building, the space was built for ingenuity and awe. The project typology, applied technology, and scale are unique to this one of a kind broadcast facility. As lead designers of the project, Clickspring not only produced the look and functionality of the on-air broadcast studios, but also drew upon ... read more

BBC Washington Bureau Reimagines Small-Scale Studios

January 21, 2021 · Blog, Debuts, News Washington, D.C  2020 This project was brought to us as the broadcast set design piece of a larger revamp within the BBC’s Washington Bureau. The entire Washington DC Headquarters underwent a complete gut and redesign, but our focus was the intimate 360 degree studio that required flexible show set ups and a smooth finish. The space is equipped with 3 Tracking Curved LED Displays, two landscape one portrait. These features allow the BBC to set the studio up in a variety of ways. Before, the studio was locked and could only be shot from one direction. Working with programming that transitions from day to night – design considerations had to allow the studio a range of moods. Implementing two ... read more

CNN Heroes 2020 Debuts With Elegance

December 14, 2020 · Blog, Debuts, News Hudson Yards, New York, NY  2020 The annual CNN Heroes program is known for celebrating hopeful stories and triumphant humans across the globe. A favorite recurring project for us here at Clickspring design, we look forward to seeing the new faces each year who help this world become a better place. The broadcast event has historically been held in the American Museum of Natural History’s Milstein Hall of Ocean Life, with the star-studded live audience celebrating the important work of the nominees under the famous life-sized model Blue Whale. As the risks of an audience event in 2020 grew due to the ongoing threat of the Covid-19 virus, the CNN team was forced to reimagine the format of the event ... read more

Clickspring Pushes Forward With Unreal Engine MegaGrant

December 9, 2020 · Awards, Blog, News New York, NY  2020 As the industries of set design, corporate interiors, and virtual events adapt, the Clickspring team grows and adapts alongside. New technologies and workflows must integrate into our workflow in order to keep our projects on par with the trends of today. We are honored and ecstatic to announce that we have been awarded an Epic Games MegaGrant. Guiding us into the learning curve of programs such as Unreal Engine, our team hopes to establish a flexible and cohesive understanding of integrating real-time 3D modeling programs into our design methods. MegaGrants are awarded to a variety of enterprise professionals, media and entertainment creators, students, educators, and tool developers with projects that require the adoption of Unreal Engine. ... read more