Equipment racks are a fix player in any gig or production these days. The standard sizes and modular equipment make it very easy to arrange everything in a compact way and have them pre-wired and ready to go for the show. Thinking about standard rackmount cases, what comes to mind is a box with rack-mount strips connected to its sides. …
From mass production to mass customisation: The case of a case factory
National Manufacturing Week is Australia’s largest gathering of manufacturing decision-makers under one roof. It is the one place for the manufacturing community to come together to be inspired, innovate and connect with one another. Design Quintessence‘s very own R&D/Design and Manufacturing manager, Dr. Morteza Pourmohamadi, delivered a talk last Thursday in Melbourne at National Manufacturing Week‘s Connected Manufacturing Theatre …
F34 DNA Truss is Here! ?
After almost 20 years of leading the lighting truss market, Global Truss has come up with yet another innovative product: the DNA Truss. Being revealed for the first time at LDI exhibition in Vegas, DNA Truss turned a lot of heads and made a well-deserved buzz in the industry. Following its success in the US and Europe, Design Quintessence introduced …
Diversity Rigging defies gravity with F45 at the Royal Exhibition Building
Despite our extensive range of standard solutions, DQ is always up for challenging tasks. Some of our best clients also share the desire for innovative problem-solving with us and have become close partners with DQ in solving unusual and difficult problems. Recently, one of our loyal customers faced such a task which demanded a rather unusual truss structure. Diversity Rigging …
Design Quintessence take on Protos
Established in July 2018, PROTOS Load Monitoring Systems specialise in load and force monitoring systems for the entertainment industry. “The entertainment industry is constantly and quickly adapting to keep up with the latest developments. While the audience’s hunger for state of the art shows keeps growing, concerts, plays and shows are constantly evolving and it seems like each iteration has …
DQ Quarterly Update: Latest News & ENTECH Roadshow
Thank you to all those who visited the DQ stand at ENTECH, the 2-week roadshow was a wonderful opportunity to catch up with many of our long-term clients and also, meet new people and share some of our latest solutions. This year, our stand featured our 5-Chord Truss, our new F34 DNA Truss and the latest in load and force …
More Stock Of Your Favourite Items! ?
Design Quintessence is Australia’s leading supplier of the most extensive range of staging solutions. We have country-wide warehouses to maintain a high level of stock availability. From a tiny R-clip to a complete roof structure, from a small hard case to a big road case, we always hold a large amount of stock to get you out of trouble when …
Australia Day shines with Crystal Productions support ✨
Crystal Productions spent Australia Day at Liverpool City Council’s Woodward Park with their newly acquired 9.5m x 8.0m Global Truss Ground Support structure which also incorporated our F45 5 Chord Truss! ?? We are honoured to be a part of helping the Crystal Productions team create this into existence.
State of the Art at Carriageworks ?
Nick Cave: Until, Carriageworks. Image: Zan Wimberley 2018 When Carriageworks commissioned the exhibition ‘Until’, by American artist Nick Cave, they rose to the challenge with the help of an F54 Truss grid to suspend one major component of the installation, the ‘Crystal Cloudscape’. Billed as Nick’s most ambitious project to date, the ‘Crystal Cloudscape’ is a 12 metre long by 6 …
Oh, Trussmas Tree! ?
Global Truss lighting truss range is known as a very versatile system, capable of building an infinite number of structures. However, designing large outdoor structures can always be tricky, specially if the truss itself is used as an aesthetic element, rather than a structural frame for attaching lighting equipment. Through a quarter of a century of experience, we have seen …