Lumen Buddha Studios is a collaboration of many years of research, design, and true industry expertise for the Lighting Industries. LBS is the brainchild of Jim Hutchison, lighting designer and creator of the internationally renowned JimOnLight.com. Jim’s 20-year career in light began in the Entertainment Industry, and his consulting and design services continued to evolve over the years to the worlds of Corporate and Industrial Entertainment Design, lighting design for the Music Industry, Meetings and Events Industry design, creation and implementation of Light Art installations, and lighting design for Dance, Theatre, and Opera production.
Lumen Buddha Studios is:
Jim Hutchison, USA829, IES
President and Founder, Lumen Buddha Studios
Jim has two decades as a lighting designer and creative in the Lighting industries, having designed shows and works from California to Catalonia for clients ranging from local production companies to Fortune 500 companies like The Limited Brands, Victoria’s Secret, Nationwide Insurance, and Chase Bank. In addition to lighting design and writing JimOnLight.com, Jim also has a love for lasers, image projection, and grand scale light art installations. The bigger, the brighter, the better! Jim is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829, the International Dark Sky Association, and the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America.
Tupac Martir
Founder, Satore Studio
Tupac Martir and his amazing team of visual artists and makers at Satore Studio create beautiful works of visual art all over the globe. Lumen Buddha Studios is pleased and happy to have his studio’s participation in bringing world-class visual design to our clients, and we are honored to bring his team’s creativity and talent to the United States! Tupac’s bio, from Nierka:
Tupac Martir is a visual designer and creative director with a varied portfolio of projects in the arts and entertainment international scene. He has provided production design, visuals and lighting direction for Elton John, Beyoncé, Sting & Jon Bon Jovi at Buchanan’s Forever, Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney, Vivienne Westwood, Coachella Music & Arts Festival, the Mexican Telethon and L’Elisir d’amore with Ramon Vargas at the Mexican National Opera House, among others.
His work has been published in major publications, such as Wallpaper* Magazine, Live Design or LSI, and he is well-known for creating unique productions for several art forms, like fashion, music, theatre, opera and ballet. Currently, Tupac is working on projects in the UK, US, France, Japan, Latin America and Russia, as well as creating and directing Nierka – his new multidisciplinary production, which will premiere in London at the Peacock Theatre in January 2012.