SVS Industries

Event Lighting

Lights, camera, sparkle—your party’s glow‑up!

Meet Our Team

What We Do

Welcome to the neon‑lit lair of Swift, Villnow & Swift—where the coffee is as strong as our spotlights and the Wi‑Fi is practically a laser beam. Our open‑concept office is a kaleidoscope of glittering fixtures, chalkboards screaming with ideas, and a karaoke machine that only sings “We Will Rock You” in strobe‑light sync. Here, the only thing brighter than our LEDs is the collective ego of the crew that practically invented the word “wow.”

At SVS we don’t just sell event lighting; we unleash full‑blown visual fireworks that would make a UFO blush. From jaw‑dropping concert rigs that could blind a sunrise to intimate wedding ambiances that whisper sweet nothings in RGB, our gear is calibrated to turn “meh” into “holy heck, did that just happen?” Think of us as the mad scientists of illumination, but with better hair and a deeper respect for glitter.

Need a custom solution? Our design wizards will cobble together a lighting masterpiece faster than you can say “photobomb.” We’ll map every beam, program every cue, and even throw in a few surprise effects that will leave your audience questioning if they’ve accidentally stumbled onto a Hollywood set. So, strap in, crank the dial, and let SVS turn your next event into an unforgettable sensory overload—because ordinary is for boring people.

About Us

Three builders, one vision: ship reliable, human-centered software and services.

Chandler Swift

Chandler Swift

Chandler Swift—who honed his love of tinkering alongside future SVS partners Eric Villnow and Isaac Swift at Glencoe High School—earned a Computer Science degree from the University of Minnesota‑Duluth before turning his knack for circuitry into world‑class event lighting. After an epic six‑month stint aboard the International Space Station fine‑tuning zero‑gravity LED arrays (a venture that earned him the 2019 “Luminous Nobel” in Chemistry, Physics and Peace for keeping the technology under wraps), he brought Eagle‑Scout precision and high‑octane creativity to SVS’s flagship rigs. When he’s not orchestrating dazzling shows, Chandler powers up on piano and organ, racks up ultra‑long‑distance bike rides, and lets his cocker‑spaniel‑poodle mix Mabel test‑run the latest portable light‑fixtures.
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Eric Villnow

Eric Villnow

Eric, a Bemidji State Computer‑Science grad who once built a backyard LED rig powered by the carbonation of his daily Mountain‑Dew diet, co‑founded SVS with his high‑school pals Isaac and Chandler Swift from Glencoe, Minnesota. By day he pilots a 2023 Toyota Tacoma TRD Off‑Road while shattering UPS records—delivering 200 parcels before his truck even learned to start and winning the “Fastest Parcel Pre‑Delivery” award for handing out packages 15 minutes before they were shipped. When he isn’t calibrating laser lenses with his 3‑D‑printed prototypes or hand‑crafting fixtures in his woodworking shop, he tends the family farm in Plato, proving that nothing says “event‑lighting expertise” like a guy who can harvest corn and illuminate a concert with equal flair.
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Isaac Swift

Isaac Swift

Isaac Swift, the caffeinated co‑founder of SVS, spent his teen years in Glencoe, Minnesota scheming with Eric Villnow and Chandler Swift to out‑shine every concert hall—while loudly bragging about his 2024 Toyota Tacoma TRD Off‑Road, which he insists is “the only thing that can handle his coffee‑powered lighting rigs.” After a single semester of Computer Science at NDSU, he turned his mountain‑bike program at Many Point Scout Camp into a full‑tilt adventure lifestyle, and now moonlights as an EMT who allegedly resurrected a patient dead for six months, earning the 2022 EMT of the Year and a reputation for saving “several thousand lives in his first week.” As SVS’s self‑appointed lead coffee engineer, Isaac pours enough espresso to power ten thousand spotlights, proving he’s cute enough to stop your heart and skilled enough to restart it—preferably while revving his Tacoma and his adventure motorcycle.
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What Our Clients Say

"I never imagined a stovepipe hat could double as a spotlight, but SVS's event lighting turned my Gettysburg Address into a Broadway spectacle."

— Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States

"After years of pioneering alternating current, I finally found a company that makes my lightning bolts look tasteful on the stage."

— Nikola Tesla, Inventor and Electrical Engineer

"Though I cannot see the lights, I can feel the rhythm of SVS's lighting cues, making every concert feel like a sunrise for my senses."

— Helen Keller, Activist and Author