For twenty-five years, the studio's work has taken the same essential shape: an experience you walk into, look up at, and eventually walk out of. Ceremonies, resident shows, immersive attractions, broadcast environments. Things built to be lived in for a moment and then remembered.
The project I want to mention today is different. It isn't a show, and it isn't a space. It's something you'll be able to hold in your hands and keep — the first thing I've made that isn't built to come down at the end of a run.
I'm not ready to give the details yet. It's in its final stages, and I'd rather show it finished than talk it up unfinished. But I didn't want it to simply appear one day with no warning, so consider this the first quiet signal that it's on the way.
Why it exists
Here's the honest version of why it exists. Over a long career you start to notice that the same underlying ideas carry from one project to the next, no matter how different the surface looks. I found I wanted to set those ideas down clearly — not as a portfolio, and not as a memoir, but as something more useful than either. That's what's coming.
It publishes soon. When it does, you'll hear about it here first, along with the story of how it was put together. If you follow the work of the studio, this is one to keep an eye on.
About Patrick Larsen
Patrick Larsen is an Emmy Award–winning production designer and the founder of Studio Bound, a Singapore studio working across immersive experiences, themed attractions, live shows, ceremonies and broadcast design. Over more than two decades he has designed for the Expo 2020 Dubai ceremonies, Olympic broadcasts, Las Vegas residencies, and resident shows across Asia and the Middle East.