Gatecrasher have enlisted the expertise of designers Big Time Design, headed up by a legendary nightclub designer Callin Fortis, to create the ultimate Miami style club experience, devised in Ibiza, designed in New York and built in Birmingham....
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100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN NIGHTLIFE As the duo behind international clubhouse Crobar, Ken Smith and Cal Fortis are a power team. Fortis creates the ambiance and Smith keeps the customers happy. View Article: [qodef_highlight background_color="#000000" color="#ffffff"]944 Miami[/qodef_highlight]...
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WORLD'S TOP NIGHTCLUB DESIGNERS: BIGTIME DESIGN Designer, nightlife impresario and Bigtime co-founder Callin Fortis primarily known for the nightclub design and branding of the international and award-winning brand of Crobar nightclubs, BTDs is combining fashion, music, branding and design consulting into one package with new company Bigtime Design. View Article: [qodef_highlight background_color="#000000"...
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CROBAR IMPRESARIO RETURNS Designer, nightlife impresario and Big Time founder Callin Fortis – primarily known for designing and branding the international and award-winning brand of Crobar night-clubs – is combining fashion, music, branding and architecture into one package with new company Big Time Design. View Article: [qodef_highlight background_color="#000000" color="#ffffff"]Pacha Magazine Back Issues[/qodef_highlight] View...
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COVER STORY: 6TH ANNUAL CLUB WORLD AWARDS Big Time Design wins the Best Nightclub Renovation and gets nominated for Best Nightclub Interior Design for their work on Cameo Miami. View PDF: [qodef_highlight background_color="#000000" color="#ffffff"]Club Systems Awards[/qodef_highlight]...
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COVER STORY: NIGHTLIFE'S 30 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE The iPod of nightlife might not be the perfect analogy, but it certainly matches the type of brand recognition crobar enjoys. The anticipation with which the industry awaits creators Ken Smith and Callin Fortis’ next move puts the duo on top of our list. View...
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COVER STORY: CAMEO - MIAMI'S HOTTEST NEW CLUB Cameo is the brainchild of Callin Fortis, club owner and designer (Big Time Design), and, with his business partner, Ken Smith, the force behind the Crobar clubs in Chicago, New York and Miami. View Article: [qodef_highlight background_color="#000000" color="#ffffff"]Lighting & Sound Magazine[/qodef_highlight]...
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CLUB DESIGNERS With Cameo, Chicago kingpin Callin Fortis undid his crobar creation and remade it in the likeness of the Palladium of the past. Picture Wright retrofitting the insides of Burnham & Root’s Rookery while dancing to a “dirty disco” beat. It’s the hallowed hollowing of a classic core to make...
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CAMEO, MIAMI The start of 2007 saw a new venue, Cameo, join the competitive Miami club scene. A replacement for the popular Crobar club, it is a collaboration between two of the cities most successful operators, Louis Puig; (of, among others, Space club) and the Crobar team of Ken Smith and...
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“It’s going to happen,” says designer Cal Fortis, who is sitting in a small office in the Cameo Theatre, chain-smoking Marlboro Light 100s, talking about his attempt to remake his world-famous crobar nightclub, of which he is a part owner, into a whole new nightclub that looks as little like...
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