Entertainment Design & Direction for Architectural installations, Stage, Concert, Experiential Marketing, Corporate Clients, & Television. Stories Illuminated™ began life as Najafi Design, founded in 2008 by lighting designer Sohail e.
Najafi. After several successful solo years, Sohail joined forces with colleague and long-term friend Joshua Cuellar and incorporated Najafi Design Group LLC in 2013.
Following a period of rapid expansion in 2016, NDG was re-launched as Stories Illuminated Entertainment in early 2017. Today Stories Illuminated™ brings together the efforts of over five decades of cumulative design and production
Najafi. After several successful solo years, Sohail joined forces with colleague and long-term friend Joshua Cuellar and incorporated Najafi Design Group LLC in 2013.
Following a period of rapid expansion in 2016, NDG was re-launched as Stories Illuminated Entertainment in early 2017. Today Stories Illuminated™ brings together the efforts of over five decades of cumulative design and production
Operating as usual
#behindthescenes 🎬 shots 📸 from our latest #television 📺 #lightingdesign 💡 featuring @howiemandel ⭐️ and @pattonoswalt ⭐️ produced by @rottenscience for @justforlaughs currently playing on @thecw !! #comedygold #storytellingthroughdesign
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🎬Director: @bramsec
🎥DP: @jordanlevydp
💡Lighting Design: @storiesilluminated
🖼Production Design: @fridaroliva
🚛Rentals by: @kineticlighting & @launch_av
💪Built by: @iatselocal728
In Manhattan 🏙 on a scout for our next #television 📺 #lightingdesign💡 #sitevisitsights 🌟 #storytellingthroughdesign 💫
In Manhattan 🏙 on a scout for our next #television 📺 #lightingdesign💡 #sitevisitsights 🌟 #storytellingthroughdesign 💫
Our heads are still spinning from the past weekend where we provided #turnkey #design and #technicaldirection for @thepizzafestival for Let's Play Production and featuring performances by #legends 🔊 Steve Aoki, DJ IRIE, & Lil Wayne
#worldslargestpizzafestival #storytellingthroughdesign
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💥 #Turnkey 🔑 #LightingDesign #AudioDesign #StageDesign #TechnicalDirection: Stories Illuminated
🛠Staging: Accurate Staging
🧮Engineering: Clark Reder Engineering Inc.
🚛Rentals: Kinetic Lighting Launch Powertrip Rentals
📸 Photography: David Jon Photography
🎥 Videography: @spinflightstudios
Glad to be back #onsite #designing for @musiccenterla 🎼 and working with @iatselocal33 💪 for another season of #DanceDTLA 💃 🕺 #storytellingthroughdesign #lightingdesign #loadin 💡 🔧
Glad to be back #onsite #designing for @musiccenterla 🎼 and working with @iatselocal33 💪 for another season of #DanceDTLA 💃 🕺 #storytellingthroughdesign #lightingdesign #loadin 💡 🔧
New #episode of MTV #MTVPush featuring Olivia Rodrigo just dropped and #trending on #youtube featuring #lightingdesign and #projectionmapping by Stories Illuminated
https://youtu.be/hPYe9EhKdLE
ARRI #skypanel
ETC #etcsourcefour #led #controlled by an #ETCEos
#projectionmapping #poweredby
Panasonic North America #laserprojector
Resolume VJ Software #resolumearena
#storytellingthroughdesign
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Produced By: Crazy Cow Productions
DP: Jon Salmon
Lighting Design: Sohail Najafi & Derek Jones of Stories Illuminated
Projection Mapping: Stories Illuminated
Rentals by: Launch
New #episode of MTV #MTVPush featuring Olivia Rodrigo just dropped and #trending on #youtube featuring #lightingdesign and #projectionmapping by Stories Illuminated
https://youtu.be/hPYe9EhKdLE
ARRI #skypanel
ETC #etcsourcefour #led #controlled by an #ETCEos
#projectionmapping #poweredby
Panasonic North America #laserprojector
Resolume VJ Software #resolumearena
#storytellingthroughdesign
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Produced By: Crazy Cow Productions
DP: Jon Salmon
Lighting Design: Sohail Najafi & Derek Jones of Stories Illuminated
Projection Mapping: Stories Illuminated
Rentals by: Launch
#sitevisit #sights 📷 from #nyc 🏙 for our next #theatrical #immersiveexperience #design coming soon #onbroadway 🎭‼️ #42ndstreet #lightingdesign💡 #sounddesign 🔊 #videodesign 📺 #specialeffects💥#storytellingthroughdesign
#sitevisit #sights 📷 from #nyc 🏙 for our next #theatrical #immersiveexperience #design coming soon #onbroadway 🎭‼️ #42ndstreet #lightingdesign💡 #sounddesign 🔊 #videodesign 📺 #specialeffects💥#storytellingthroughdesign
#backonset 🎥 with #viacom and #mtv for another episode of #mtvpush #pixelmapping #universesfordays ‼️ #hulk 💪 #keepingitsafe 😷 #setlife #television #lightingdesign💡
#sneakpeak from the #pixel #test of our #pixelmapping #lightingdesign & #systemintegration for the Vermont Hollywood featuring over 120 universes of CHAUVET Professional #epixflex pixel tape and drivers controlled by MADRIX #madrix5 #storytellingthroughdesign
#beautifulsky 🌅 over our #SiteSurvey for another #architectural #lightingdesign in a #historicbuilding 🏛 featuring Electronic Theatre Controls #navis #poe 🔋 #luminaires 💡
So glad to be back #onset 🎥🎬 #safely 😷 providing another #tv #lightingdesign💡 for #viacomcbs 🏢 #mtv 🎶 #storytellingthroughdesign
#programming in the office today for our next QSC #qsys #avl #audio #lighting #video #systemintegration #makingmagic 🧙♂️ #immersiveexperience ✨#topsecret 🤫 #storytellingthroughdesign
Remembering our #lightingdesign for Freeform’s #HalloweenRoad and wishing everyone a safe and happy Halloween! 🎃👻
#storytellingthroughdesign
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#repost Artists Creating Entertainment
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They’ll put a spell on you 🔮!
🎬 Sanderson Sisters Drag Drive-Through Performance at Freeform’s Halloween Road
Produced By: MKG
Lighting Rental By: Kinetic Lighting
#hocuspocus #freeformhalloweenroad #halloween2020 #sandersonsisters
Sooo many ‼️ BrightSign, LLC connected mediaplayers being prepped today for one of our audiovisual 👀 & lightingdesign 💡 architectural designs 🏢 featuring immersive ✨ syncronized ⏱ 8K playback 📺 #storytellingthroughdesign
#flashbackfriday to our 💡#lightingdesign for Freeform’s 31 Nights of Halloween #freeformhalloweenroad where we painted with over 550 fixtures set over 3/4 of a mile... 🖌creative design & direction by our friends at MKG | 🛠 fabrication by Pink Sparrow | 🚛 lighting rental by Kinetic Lighting #storytellingthroughdesign
Honored to be providing lighting design for this hilarious evening of LIVE stand-up comedy in support of voter enfranchisement!! 🇺🇸 🗳
Thank you to Kinetic Lighting for providing the lighting rental! 💡
Make your voice heard! #standupandunite #standupcomedy #lightingdesign #storytellingthroughdesign
And finally lighting up our our office in RED!!
Save venues and millions of unemployed entertainment workers across the country. Please join us & call on your local representatives to take action now and pass the RESTART Act @ wemakeevents.org
#RedAlertRESTART
#WeMakeEvents
#StorytellingThroughDesign
And because we couldn’t forget one of our most special agency partners!!
Save venues and millions of unemployed entertainment workers across the country. Please join us & call on your local representatives to take action now and pass the RESTART Act @ wemakeevents.org
#RedAlertRESTART
#WeMakeEvents
#StorytellingThroughDesign
Painting another awesome venue we designed in RED tonight as a call to action to save venues and millions of unemployed entertainment workers across the country. Please join us & call on your local representatives to take action now and pass the RESTART Act @ wemakeevents.org
#RedAlertRESTART
#WeMakeEvents
#StorytellingThroughDesign
Painting this wonderful venue we are currently creating in RED tonight as a call to action to save venues and millions of unemployed entertainment workers across the country. Please join us & call on your local representatives to take action now and pass the RESTART Act @ wemakeevents.org
#RedAlertRESTART
#WeMakeEvents
#StorytellingThroughDesign
Great review in The Guardian for Eddie Pepitone: For the Masses !!
Released today on Amazon Prime Video!
https://www.amazon.com/Eddie-Pepitone-Masses/dp/B08BJC5PQR/
Directed by Steven Feinartz
Lighting Design by Sohail Najafi of Stories Illuminated
#storytellingbydesign
The gruff comic from Brooklyn appals and entertains as he rages against the debauchery of modern America
Proud to have provided #lightingdesign for #michaelchematters, now featured on Netflix’s #blacklivesmattercollection
#netflixisajoke
#strongertogether
#storytellingthroughdesign
Thank you to ARRI for taking the time to give us an in-depth look at the Orbiter last October at LDI Conference and Tradeshow 2019! We cannot wait to continue storytelling with all of our partners and clients! #strongertogether #storytellingthroughdesign
Sohail Najafi, Chief Creative Officer at Stories Illuminated, examines Orbiter for live TV and live corporate experiential activations.
We stand united for equality. #blackouttuesday
Excited to announce that we were featured in The New Yorker this week for our immersive theatrical design of A Quiet Place Part II’s bicoastal survival experience featuring lighting, sound, scenic, and special effects design by Stories Illuminated, scenic fabrication by Pink Sparrow, and master creative direction by Experiential Supply Co. #dreamteam #aquietplace #storytellingbydesign
The primaries! Roe v. Wade! The Dow! Fans of the “Quiet Place” sequel can get an extra dose of anxiety (and a sq**rt of Purell) at an “experiential marketing” attraction in SoHo. Just don’t say “coronavirus.”
Don’t miss Bill Burr Presents: The Ringers! Series premiere on Comedy Central Jan 10th at 11/10c featuring lighting and production design by Stories Illuminated’s Sohail Najafi!
Bill Burr thinks these stand-ups have what it takes to make it big. Look out for The Ringers, premiering January 10 at 11/10c.
Remembering earlier this year when we provided #technicaldirection 🛠 #sounddesign 🔊 and #lightingdesign 💡 for Experiential Supply Co. and their #onpoint 🎯 #ex*****on of the Captain Marvel Rocks #livestream #specialevent | 🚛 lighting gear provided by 4Wall Entertainment
That time we teamed up with #ultimate #creativeagency Experiential Supply Co. to create an #unforgettable #driveintheater #experience for #fordvferrari in #hollywood 🎥 🚗 🍿 | #technicaldirection 🔨 #lightingdesign 💡 #digitalcinemaprojection 📽
#flashbackfriday 🌟 to our #lightingdesign 💡 for #samsung #firstlook at CES 2019 with #master #creativeagency 🎨 MKG featuring over 1100 feet of #prerig #truss that #loadedin in under 4️⃣hours‼️
#throwbackthursday to the time we provided #technicaldirection 📐 #projectionmapping 📽 #audio 🔊 and a #40ton #crane ⛓ for #legendary #creativeagency 🎨 Experiential Supply Co. for the Fosse/Verdon #popup #preview 🎬 on #hollywoodblvd 🌃
Another great year at Coachella for #absolutcoachella handling #technicaldirection 📐, #lightingdesign 💡, and #audio 🔊 for #creative #powerhouse MKG
#billboard in #timessquare #nyc 🏙
#thrilled for the #premiere of our next #television 📺 #lightingdesign starring #comic #genius💥 Paul Virzi debuting on Comedy Central 😂 this Friday Nov 2
🎥 directed by #masterdirector Steven Feinartz
📢 presented by Bill Burr
🔧 #gripandelectric support by 4Wall Entertainment
#playing with #fire 🔥#projectionmapping 📽 #sounddesign 🔊 and #lightingdesign 💡 for the #FX Mayans MC #rally #celebrating the #seriespremiere this week produced by #mastercreator Experiential Supply Co. gear provided by 4Wall Entertainment
Created a #winter #wonderland with #creativepowerhouse Experiential Supply Co. for #warnerbros Smallfoot Yeti Village in #hollywood #lightingdesign 💡 #specialeffects ❄️ #snowing #everyday now open through Sept 14th
#TechnicalDirection 📐 and #LightingDesign 💡 for MKG’s #incredible #activation for #mtvcribs at VidCon #blessed to work with such great #collaborators
So busy we are just catching up from the last few weeks of projects 🌪 Here are some shots from our #lightingdesign for Max Richter’s #SLEEP for the The Music Center: where we #painted Grand Park #blue in #beautiful #swaths of #texture
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Stories Illuminated™ began life as Najafi Design, founded in 2008 by lighting designer Sohail e. Najafi. After several successful solo years, Sohail joined forces with colleague and long-term friend Joshua Cuellar and incorporated Najafi Design Group LLC in 2013. Following a period of rapid expansion in 2016, NDG was re-launched as Stories Illuminated Entertainment in early 2017. Today Stories Illuminated™ brings together the efforts of over five decades of cumulative design and production experience, specializing in lighting for live production, television, concert touring, and architainment installation, as well as production management and festival architecture. A Nevada Limited Liability Company with offices in Nevada and California, sie™ is fully insured to do business nationwide as well as around the world. At Stories Illuminated™ you will find design that completes the experience and immortalizes the moment. Services are tailored to fit all needs. BIG to small subtle to extravagant. Personalized attention is the method, unparalleled are the results.
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Remembering our #lightingdesign for Freeform’s #HalloweenRoad and wishing everyone a safe and happy Halloween! 🎃👻 #storytellingthroughdesign ・・・ #repost Artists Creating Entertainment ・・・ They’ll put a spell on you 🔮! 🎬 Sanderson Sisters Drag Drive-Through Performance at Freeform’s Halloween Road Produced By: MKG Lighting Rental By: Kinetic Lighting #hocuspocus #freeformhalloweenroad #halloween2020 #sandersonsisters
#sneakpeak of our latest #experiential #lightingdesign and #technicaldirection for #Buchanan's Scotch Whisky and Match Marketing Group Inc. premiering at The Garden in #nyc for the Jbalvin #energiatour #lovewhatwedo #creativecollaboration
Happy Hump Day! Here's a #sneakpeak from our Live Design Magazine #excellence #award nominated #lightingdesign for Spice Market in #melbourne #australia More info + voting at: http://bit.ly/2oznsos CHAUVET Professional Electronic Theatre Controls CITC Special Effects ENTTEC MADRIX Gantom
Sneakpeak from the Olympic Main Stage featuring a performance by Mayer Hawthorne
Loving the #christmasspirit at our latest #lightingdesign for the The Music Center: Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles #holidaysingalong #snowflakes #christmascarols gear by Kinetic Lighting
#sneakpeak #specialeffects #test at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for #sleeplessdtla on 11.11.16 at the The Music Center: Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles #winteriscoming #snow #flurries #lightingdesign #sfx #magic
Happy #LaborDay from everyone here at #NDG 🇺🇸!
#workhardplayhard #ballpit #cameratest #pepsiblockparty #corporate #lightingdesign at the MLB All-Star Game in #sandiego #highspeed #orbitalcamera by OrcaVue
#sneakpeek from our latest #nightlife #pixelmapping #lightingdesign for the #beachfront Al's Beach Club & Burger Bar in #sunny #florida thanks to Electronic Theatre Controls, Philips Entertainment Lighting (EMEA), Color Kinetics, Chauvet Professional, Iluminarc, MADRIX, Gantom, #basehaze
#sneakpeek from our #ledwall #design for Funny Or Die in #Austin #fodtx #comedy #special #highres #curvedledwall from Pixel Flex LED #beautiful #customanimation from Jekyll Works #ready for Tracy Morgan #onstage #tonight
#pixelmagic #test for our Spice Market #nightlife #lightingdesign #brilliance by ENTTEC and MADRIX #melbourne
Sneak peak from #videovillage! Huge thanks to 4Wall Entertainment Lighting for being the backbone of our rental vendor team!
Chauvet Professional open house seeing the #Rogue RH1 Hybrids in action! Can't wait to use these at the Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE next month!
Enjoying the Martin Release Party for their New Rush Lighting Line. Good way to close out a great and productive weekend at LDI this year!
Joe Schmelzer Photographs / Treasurbite Studi
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