Our team of designers and engineers specialise in the development of interactive technologies that drive sensory experiences.
We engineer products that elevate brands, communicate new ideas, and engage audiences using a range of technologies. By combining sensing, mapping, and tracking systems, we build memorable immersive journeys that captivate audiences in fun and meaningful ways. We design and prototype projects in-house, using our own technology, OSCHII - a system that makes it easy to connect the physical and digital worlds. OSCHII takes care of the technical details, allowing artists and designers to focus on their creative work.
Lighting forms the foundation of our work, but our expertise extends far beyond it.
We’ve expanded into interactive technologies, show automation, audio-visual systems, and are now exploring the possibilities of mixed reality. Our background in immersive theatre, escape rooms, and participatory arts allows us to craft engaging worlds where technology is so seamlessly integrated it becomes almost invisible. In an industry known for it’s waste, we pride ourselves on our ability to create sustainable, planet-first experiences where tiny details matter, but don’t cost the Earth.
Designing and making lie at the heart of everything we do.
Our workshop specialises in creating innovative solutions, whether we’re responding to the specific needs of our partners, or delving into the challenges of new commissions. When off-the-shelf products fall short, we design and build custom alternatives. We craft one-off props or batch fabricate custom fixtures. We’ve created everything from fairy light video walls and show-ready fire effects to electronic stabilisers for projection mapping at sea. Our workshop is fully equipped, with laser cutting, 3D printing, CNC routing and PCB development capabilities.
Bailes+Light is a creative studio based in East London that blends visual, kinetic and interactive technologies for award-winning immersive experiences.
Founded by Dan Light and Benji Bailes in 2016, we share decades of experience in lighting design, effects and interactives. Many of our projects tackle complex social issues and we’re highly motivated when creating narrative-driven installations that inspire engagement with the climate crisis.
As creative technologists, our specialism is in world-building: creating multi-sensory experiences that put audiences at the heart of the action.
We have a fully equipped workshop and design studio where we develop interactive technologies and games, create bespoke light installations, design lighting and props for theatre and television, and collaborate with artists to create experimental and boundary-pushing immersive experiences.
In an industry known for its waste, we prioritise sustainable practices that protect our environment, and we are committed to improving access for underrepresented and marginalised people to the immersive arts and creative technology sectors.
Benji leads on the creative design for each project and ensures everything runs smoothly at B+L.
With a background in immersive technologies, they bring a compassionate and collaborative approach to experiential design, focusing on the emotion of the audience and the enrichment of space. Their approach is hugely sympathetic to building replica worlds, where crafting every tiny detail matters.
Benji possesses a sophisticated understanding of lighting design across a multitude of sectors, having worked as a lighting director and designer in television, immersive theatre, live music and on visuals at some of the UK’s most exclusive nightclubs. Benji’s passion lies in linking immersive arts to activism, developing interactive and multi-sensory participatory installations that inspire audiences to connect with the natural world.
Dan is the technical director at Bailes+Light. He’s the one who has the answers to the some of the knottier technical questions.
After finishing his education at the University of Exeter with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, Dan has spent most of his career fixing and making things. Whilst freelancing his way around the lighting industry fixing broken moving lights he was also solving interesting problems with limited budgets in the festival world.
These days you’ll find him up to his eyeballs in 3D CAD, driving one of the CNC machines in the workshop or making (intentional) puffs of smoke from circuit boards in the reflow oven.
Taz joined the team in 2022 as an apprentice and has since risen to the role of Workshop Supervisor.
They oversee operations of the workshop and warehouse, and are responsible for TLC of our equipment and machines. They’re also a dab hand at a variety of technical tasks from electronics fabrication to woodworking to 3D modelling, and are instrumental in the physical manufacturing process of bringing B+L designs to life.
Beyond the workshop, Taz wrangles cables and rigs lights at events and festivals, and is always on the lookout for new projects combining tech and art. Most recently they’ve been scavenging and building lights for Piehouse Worker’s Co-op, and directing lighting for Camp Trans.
Vanya works closely with our partners and clients to bring our projects to life, whilst keeping our studio in check.
Vanya has an extensive background in both exhibition and events production, as well as in delivering socially engaged public programming.
In addition to their work at Bailes+Light, Vanya is a practicing research-based artist who works primarily with moving image. Vanya holds a BA in Interaction Design Arts from The University of the Arts London where they specialised in sensory design and multimedia installations. More recently, they completed short courses in woodwork joinery and in Feminisms, Sexuality and the Archive at Goldsmiths, University of London.
