AARHUS, Denmark — Martin Professional reported that its revenue for the first quarter of 2008 rose slightly to $55.7 million, up from $54.9 million in Q1 2007. The company noted that the increase was partly offset by the weaker DKK/USD exchange rate.

NEW YORK — Scharff Weisberg needed an artful approach for lighting the Brooklyn Museum’s annual gala, a fundraiser previewing a retrospective of multimedia artist Takashi Murakami and including a performance by Kanye West, and in a hurry — client Bounce Event Marketing, the overall event designer and producer, required a two-and-a-half week turnaround for the complex project.

NEW YORK — Georges Seurat was obsessed with the nuances of color, light and form, and it took him two years to create his pointillistic masterpiece, “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.” So it’s no surprise that for the Roundabout Theatre Company’s Broadway production of Sunday in the Park with George, which brings a story inspired by Seurat’s painting to the live stage with extensive use of projections and LED screens, precise control of the lighting was of paramount importance to lighting designer Ken Billington.

CANNES, France — The Palme d’Or, or Golden Palm, may be the highest prize given to a competing film at the Cannes Film Festival. But a team of lighting designers is giving visitors to the Boulevard de la Croisette a dynamic nightly show, turning a row of life-sized palm trees gold — and any other color imaginable.

LONDON — Named for an album that rose to the top of the U.K. charts, the Kooks’ Konk tour could have gone all out with its lighting design. Working with input from the band, however, lighting designer Luton Pete (Pete Hosier) came up with a “less is more” design aesthetic, combining the simplicity of an “old school” look with newer LED technology.