Case Study: Design One Corporation achieves faster, more accurate lighting and projection design with VectorWorks

Bringing Buried Treasures to Light

Christien Methot, principal of New York’s Design One Corporation, is a veteran lighting and production designer whose work spans theater, retail, broadcast and historic preservation. Faced with high‑profile, detail‑driven briefs — from recreating interiors for Beijing’s Forbidden City and staging immersive environments for the St. Augustine Pirate & Treasure Museum to tight‑budget broadcast shows — Methot had to deliver historically authentic, dramatic lighting under tight deadlines, daily plan changes and with collaborators using different software.

Using Vectorworks Spotlight and Renderworks, Methot produced precise 2D/3D lighting plots, imported and reconciled others’ drawings, and accurately calculated projector lens throws for fast, reliable iterations. The result: award‑winning, on‑time installations that brought historic and theatrical spaces to life, sped up decision‑making with realistic renderings, and enabled rapid changes on the job — often reducing what would take days to an hour.

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Christien Methot

Owner