We've had this tremendous benefit of in-house design for a long time, and people get used to it. The designers are good at what they do, but it's something we can't afford, so we'll have to do what everyone else does and go to the street.

Few major public broadcasters around the world still maintain substantial in-house design capacity. Even BBC London stopped doing so some time ago.

There are all kinds of broadcasters in North America and the world, who do lots and lots of production, who do not have in-house design and scenic-build capability.

It's good to collaborate between Germany and Brazil on design. You can have people in many locations.

We design for activity as much for space.

We were looking to standardize our design flow to reduce the amount of time we spent recreating parts that would work with one design tool but not another. We had concerns about losing all of our previous designs and libraries. However, after evaluating several vendors, we discovered that with PADS, we were able to get done what we needed to do quickly and cleanly.