A neon sign for On that had to hold up on camera
A sign that had to work not just on a wall but in front of a lens. That puts very different demands on the LEDs than an ordinary commission.
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Paradise City Festival
Neon built to survive a festival weekend
At a festival a neon sign is not decoration but equipment: it has to handle weather, transport, and thousands of people leaning on it for a photo.
- Client
- Paradise City Festival
- Sector
- Evenementen
- Location
- België / Nederland
- Year
- 2026
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Dagen buiten
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IP-waarde voeding
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Storingen
The brief
A sign on an indoor wall has an easy life. A sign on a festival site does not. It goes into a crate, comes out, hangs outdoors for three days, goes back in the crate, and does it all again next year.
The biggest risks are not the LEDs. They are the cable gland where the wire leaves the plate, the mounting, and the edges of the acrylic where a crack can start in transit.
What we did
We built an outdoor version: IP65 driver, sealed gland and UV-resistant cable that will not go hard and pale after one summer.
The acrylic got rounded corners and extra material all round instead of a tight cut-to-shape outline — a sharp corner is exactly where a crack starts when a crate goes over.
Mounting went on secured steel cable rather than through screw holes, so the sign can move in wind without stressing the plate.
The result
The sign got through the weekend without a fault and went back in its crate afterwards. That is the point of festival work: not beautiful once, but usable again every year.
Neon buiten: de drie dingen die echt uitmaken
1. De doorvoer
Water komt zelden door de silicone naar binnen. Het komt binnen waar de kabel de plaat verlaat. Een goede doorvoer met een wartel is het verschil tussen twee jaar en twee weken.
2. De voeding
Een IP65-voeding hoort in een kast, en die kast hoort niet op de grond te staan. Water zoekt het laagste punt.
3. De bevestiging
Wind zet een plaat onder spanning. Star vastschroeven op vier punten geeft precies daar breuk. Ophangen aan kabel of aan rubberen doorvoeren laat het bord bewegen.
Wil je iets voor een evenement?
Zeg er bij dat het meerdere keren gebruikt wordt. Dan bouwen we hem anders — dat kost iets meer en gaat jaren langer mee.
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We keep two sites because a Dutch customer asks different questions than a Belgian one — about iDEAL, about shipping across the border, about permits from their own council. Those answers belong where you go looking for them.
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