The set and lighting designers behind UK rapper Dave's Psychodrama tour took the lights on the audience's phones into account when creating the show.
Award-winning lighting designer Tim Routledge and creative studio Tawbox, made up of Chris Jablonski and Amber Rimell, worked with the London artist on his UK tour, which closed at the O2 Academy in Brixton, London, earlier this month.
The tour saw the rapper perform tracks from his debut album of the same name to audiences across 14 cities, against the backdrop of a skull and a bank of immersive digital panels.
Lighting designer Tim Routledge and creative studio Tawbox were in charge of stage design
Speaking to Dezeen, the designers said that the set was heavily influenced by the way audiences light up the stage and record gigs with their phones. "It's really hard to do anything moody these days because of bloody mobile phones," said Jablonski.
"If 5000 kids turn on their lights at the beginning of a show, it just blows. You can't do projection gags and the beginning of a show, you can't let an artist just creep up and appear in the spotlight."
"It wasn't many years ago that you could sneak the artist in, bring up the lights and everything goes mad," he explained.
The tour saw Dave perform tracks from his Psychodrama album to audiences across 14 cities
To account for the light given off by mobile phones in the audience, two hydraulic-powered trap doors were built into the floor to lift Dave and...