In the early 2000s, we began to see a everywhere films scroll behind the DJ's. then came time for VJ's, who were mixing live images hypnotically. Today, nobody wants to dance all between four white walls. Mapping, LED, AV systems are everywhere, sometimes totally immersive, like the last Amon Tobin tour for his album ISAM. In addition to...
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Over the past two decades, Callin Fortis and his firm have designed such well-known nightclubs as crobar, Gatecrasher, Cameo, Rain and Vinyl. Fortis says Big Time Design seeks to combine fashion, music, branding and design into one package....
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Capturing the spirit of New York, the city that never sleeps, the concept behind Crobar was to bring an urban familiarity to the space punctuating the overall ethos of nightclubbing with no boundaries of race, sexual orientation or income. Taking into consideration the building’s core function as well as the...
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Nightclub design aside, we’re excited to announce the book release of SECRET SOCIETY featuring Callin Fortis and Big Time Design‘s award-winning speakeasy inspired project, B BAR, located in the Betsy Hotel in South Beach. Secret Society is a “journey inside the global secret society of the members-only clubs and the...
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Big Time Design's Callin Fortis speaks with Aspire, a business and luxury magazine exclusively published for business class and first class flights on Etihad airways. The article, Castles in the Clouds, says, "They're bold, beautiful and guarentee a good time. Discover why nightclub designers are the life of a million...
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Big Time Design takes inspiration from nature to turn an empty getaway condo into a personalized boutique hotel. Callin Fortis of Big Time Design has transformed this bare, 2,300-square-foot, three-bedroom Miami Beach condo into a luxurious space resembling a high-end hotel suite — sophisticated, simple yet functional. Fortis has taken...
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What, exactly, is global design? Is it a perception of aesthetic, doing business in an international arena — or something else entirely? At Miami's Betsy Hotel, Hotel Design, along with sister publication Hospitality Architecture + Design sat down for breakfast with six designers and three sponsors to try to answer...
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Designed by international hospitality designer Callin Fortis, principal of Big Time Design, guests enter the bar via a dimly lit passage that still suggests its service past. Fortis has included optical illusion as part of the magic that transforms this otherwise claustrophobic space. By using a reflective vinyl that acts...
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Located right on the beach in South Beach, The Betsy Hotel not only encloses in its walls the history of an entire era, but also the luxury and exclusivity that have come to stay over the years. ...
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The last place anyone expects to find anything remotely hip is Ocean Drive. But the renovated Betsy Hotel has done just that with its speakeasy space, B Bar. Described as a "jewel box," the lounge transports you to something akin to an obscure New York hot spot. Even if you...
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