PLASA Gold Sponsors Clay Paky’s new product, the MYTHOS, was recognised
with a PLASA Innovation Award at London’s ExCeL on Tuesday. Clay Paky’s Chief
Commercial Officer, Pio Nahum, received the award from PLASA Governing Body
chair Ed Pagett.
Every year,
PLASA recognises products that demonstrate progress, through attributes like a
new style of thinking, an improvement in technical practice, new technology,
materials or techniques, or an improvement in safety. The entries were
considered by an expert judging panel comprising: Tim Atkinson, Scott Burges,
Jonathan Burton, Richard Cadena, Jenni Harris, Tapio Ilomaki, Steve Moles, Nick
Read, Ben Rogers and Ed Manwaring.
On their
decision, the judges said: “The
Mythos hybrid automated light works as a hard-edge spot, a beam light, or a
wash light with a range of effects. It has excellent colours, incredible
brightness, terrific optics, and a small housing. It\’s also very energy
efficient and it has a patented and innovative cooling system. In the Clay Paky
tradition, it\’s a real winner. Paky would be proud.\”
The MYTHOS
comprises a 470 watt-lamp spotlight, with a zoom range from 4° to 50° and a
beam that is perfectly defined from the first millimetres out of the lens and
along its entire length. But MYTHOS is also a beam light that can switch to an
angle of just 0.5° to produce a dense, 170 mm-diameter beam, which remains
parallel for the entirety of its super long throw.
On winning the award, Nahum comments: “Clay Paky’s mission is to inspire
the world’s most creative designers. We aim to enable them to produce their own
evocative and dramatic lighting environments using our forward-looking lighting
technology. We are therefore immensely proud that this prestigious award has
recognised one of our latest fixtures as such a tool.”
