Edinburgh’s McRobb Display created this hoarding for a new shopping centre development in the city. The brief was to hide the construction site and make it look like the entrance to new building. MD Neil McRobb said the 9m x 6m hoarding looked so realistic someone actually cycled into it!
The stairwell of London’s Roundhouse venue was given a makeover for a charity event in aid of the Ubuntu Education Fund. Eye-catching wall graphics printed and installed by Oasis Graphic formed part of an event-branding package from Fisher Productions.
DPI (UK) supplied super-sized display panels at refurbished AX Supercars’ showroom at Donington Park. Five 2 x 1m images were printed on fabrics with a silicone edge so they can be quickly pushed into frames and replaced with new graphics as required.
The Royal Academy Schools has hosted an exhibition to show students’ artwork across a wide range of media, much of it created using Epson large-format printers and projectors. Jack Burton produced this array of work for the show.
Print’n'Go Aslan DFP 33 is a new slip-resistant, directly printable floor film that does not require any post-print laminate. The company said the 125 μm thick matt white film can be used for short-term interior designs on smooth floors, with removal in one piece possible in under six months.
Amayse, best known for supplying the 3D-effect signage for televised sporting events, recently installed exterior window graphics at Twickenham Stadium ahead of Harlequins’ Big Game 9.
The graphics were printed using a Vutek GS3250r 3.2m-wide UV roll-to-roll printer onto Clear FocusOne Way Vision BudgetVue film, which allows graphics on one side, and a clear, unobstructed view from the other.
The printed graphics were installed in a few hours by a specialist team the day prior to the match and removed the following week.
Hampshire-based Anton Visual helped to transform specialist builders’ merchants Strukta Group’s Andover-based headquarters with the design, production and installation of a suite of graphics including walls, flooring and signage applications. The floor graphic particularly impressed, with a bird’s eye view of the streets of New York. The graphics were printed onto Udeco Crystal Floor - from CMYUK - with an Oce Arizona 550GT printer.
Event graphics specialist Insite Graphics has introduced Brightbox - an illuminated, high-resolution, tensioned fabric exhibition stand package. The Brightbox system makes use of Insite Graphics’ dye-sublimation print capabilities, combined with a free standing back-lit frame, to create fully illuminated exhibition stand walls.
This is the kind of thing that happens when an inkjet printer manufacturer teams up with a fashion designer. This outfit by Richard Quinn was printed by him onto fabric and Mylar foil using an Epson SureColor SC-F dye-sublimation printer.
Drivers crossing the Severn Bridge from England into Wales will notice that the toll booth offices have been brightly wrapped with images promoting a TAG vehicle system that allows drivers to pre-pay bridge tolls. The front and sides of the offices were wrapped by All Signs Bristol using 20% Contra Vision Performance perforated window film, applied externally with CL50CY ‘optically clear’ cast overlaminating film.
Keen to make an impact at trade exhibitions, Graphica Display designed, manufactured and installed a full size King Kong v Godzilla table tennis table with LED under lighting using its Agfa DTM flatbed UV printer and Blackman and White laser cutter/ router. Its stand - for Retail Design Expo - also included printed lightbox graphics, flooring, direct to media boards plus printed and cut table tennis samples on various media. You can see a time-lapse of the stand build at: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=koWtOaiAfy0
Cut ‘n Copy won the ‘non-promotional interior decoration’ category in the 2017 Mactac creative awards with its wall art prints at Northwick Park Hospital as part of the Nightingale Project to bring art and art and music into healthcare environments.
UK companies Augustus Martin, Signbox and Digital Plus all won gongs at his years Fespa Awards. Augustus Martin won the: POP - paper and board category (bottom); Signbox the Decals/printed labels/ fleet sector (top); and Digital Plus for the Glass/ ceramic/metal/wood category (middle).
Aslan undertook a number of WrapTheHouse projects to show-off the capabilities of its three new printable outdoor media of the same name. Here you can see WrapTheHouse being used on various rough wall surfaces.
Leach Studio has drawn up a second set of conceptual images Bolton Museum’s new Egyptology gallery after feedback on initial interpretations revealed in December 2016 and shared on social media.
Antalis created this American diner inspired stand for Sign and Digital UK, where everything - from the walls through to light shades - was constructed from materials from its range visual communications media.
Among a new range of magnetically-receptive films from Aslan is FerroPrint Aslan FF 480 that can be printed with solvent, eco-solvent, UV-curing and latex inks. Combined with Aslan’s transparent blackboard and whiteboard films, printed graphics can also be written on with chalk or whiteboard markers.
Boaty McBoatface, a yellow submarine named by popular vote, has set off on its first mission resplendent in graphics created and applied by Signs Express (Southampton), a team that has worked closely with the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) on various project over the years.
PPB’s Allison Board wasused to create an attention-grabbing backdrop at an event to launch the new Reebok Crossfit Nano 7. 2m high 3D lettering to promote the Twitter hashtag #NANO7 for the new shoes, was created by Welwyn Garden City-based Best Digital. It built up the letters in layers to a depth of 96mm. After printing the sheets on its Screen Truepress 3200 HS flatbed, the layers were bonded together and faced off with a reverse printed 1mm Acrylic to give a premium feel.
This exhibition stand put together by exhibition and modular display specialists Bell Stone Associates using the Tecna Display T3 Affinity system won the ‘Best at BETT’ award for Bloodhound's ‘Race for the Line’ project at the Microsoft Education Activity Stand at BETT 2017.
London Fashion Week earlier this year saw a 30-piece collection by fashion designer John Herrera that was digitally printed using Epson’s textile dye-sublimation printers. Based in Manila, Philippines, where he works closely with Epson, Herrera was voted Britain’s Top Designer with new collection.
“The collection would have been impossible to create without the Epson digital textile printer,” he said. “Without them I would have had to paint the designs myself and, with only a month to prepare, it could not have been done”.
Sheffield sign company Signs Express has brought life to the exhibitions at Weston Park in a lengthy project for Museums Sheffield. Weston Park underwent refurbishment in 2016 that involved opening new exhibitions, renovating existing ones and improving the overall visitor journey. Signs Express Sheffield supplied creative partitions to block off the areas undergoing work, then created wall and floor graphics, ultraviolet window panels, informational displays etc.
HP created and donated a series of wall graphics for the Clinical Research Facility at Liverpool’s new Alder Hey in the Park Children’s Hospital. The project used HP’s Latex technology to create six photographic wall coverings inspired by natural surroundings.
T3 Systems showed off its printed fabric stand capabilities at the C!Print exhibition earlier in the year. One of its stands had a 10m back wall supported at either end by T3 Affinity poles, separated in the centre by 5m tower. The stand also featured a 3m curved extrusion that came out of the central display tower.
Signbox delivered this mural made up of 3,500 author names for book publisher Hachette UK’s Carmelite House site on the north bank of the River Thames. The mural - which will grow each year as names of are added - was digitally printed using HP Latex 360 printers, on Class O fire retardant LG 3880 high tack vinyl - approximately 450 linear metres of it in total. The vinyl was then matt laminated, CAD-cut and weeded for application.
Mexican eatery Barburrito has unveiled a new look in its Union Square restaurant in Aberdeen thanks to Leach. Dimmable, fabric-based menu lightboxes designed, manufactured and installed by Yorkshire-based Leach Impact have replaced digital screens. Similar menu lightboxes have also been installed at the Gordon Street Barburrito in Glasgow.
Feature walls have also been created for restaurants at the Trafford Centre, Manchester and at the Gateshead Metro Centre, Hammersmith, Cardiff and Queen Street, Glasgow. Now eyes are on reworks of the London Paddington Station and Meadowhall Shopping Centre restaurants.
Belgium-based creative communications specialist Next-Way has helped deliver this 12m x 2.5m display wall for the European Parliament building in Brussels. It was created using Tecna Display's T3 modular system, with T3 fusion tubing profiles forming the framework.
US-based Olson Visual used Tecna Display’s T3 systems to put together various displays for a special exhibition on ‘Jewish Histories in Multi-Ethnic Boyle Heights’, held in the Leve Centre at UCLA, Los Angeles. Most of the graphics were printed onto Dibond and fabric, which were then mounted onto the framework - using Velcro for the Dibond and silicon edging fitted into T3 Silverlite inserts for the fabric.
In Paris even the metro stations look good, many of them adorned with large-format printed graphics like this one.
Darlington-based Signs Express worked with local artist Vicky Holbrough and Tees Valley Arts organisation to brighten up park bridges. The one in the picture is on the Geneva Bridge in South Park, Darlington.
Signs Express has helped launch a brand refresh for planning and development consultancy Nathaniel Lichfield and Partners (NLP), which has changed its name to Lichfields. On 13 February - the day before the rebrand - seven Signs Express centres began installing interior and exterior branding designed and printed in the previous weeks across the eight Lichfields sites.
Japanese fashion designer Yuima Nakazato used Fujifilm’s Acuity Select 20 large-format UV inkjet printer, together with high-elongation Uvijet KV ink, to create this stunning dress for the Paris Haute Couture Collection.
When Japanese entertainment giant Bandai Namco wanted new interior and exterior signage/décor for its West London offices it called on Resonate Architectural Interiors, which worked with Signbox on the six month project. The work comprised bespoke external LED illuminated signs, vinyl graphics, manifestation graphics, wall paper graphics and acrylic shaped door signage.
Garry Highland, senior project manager at Signbox, said: “We worked closely with Resonate, and were even involved in the actual design of some of the graphics themselves to ensure they were an appropriate reflection of the exciting nature of the Bandai Namco brand and its products.”
“As this hoarding is right in front of the abbey entrance we needed an early start to install it,” added Murray. “We arrived at 5.45am and managed to get most of the panels up by 11am.”
Following its external wrap - and to add to the drama and wow factor of the ‘Airbus’ people carrier - High Society Limousines added amplified sound mimicking an aircraft idling, along with running lights for the wings and wheels. Inside, it has had a full fit out including inflight screens, an in-vehicle bar, disco lights and a karaoke machine.
Yorkshire-based Leach has completed an 11m-long display commissioned to tell the 675-year-old story of The Queen’s College, a constituent of the University of Oxford. The company handled the design, production and installation of the 11 x 2.5m lightbox-based graphic. Managing director Richard Leach is an Old Member of the college, ”and there seemed no better company to bring our tale to life,” said project lead Anna Thorne.
Designers within Leach Studio, part of Huddersfield-based Leach, have come up with conceptual designs for the Eternal Egypt gallery at Bolton Museum. The images show four different stages of the potential visitor experience and interested parties are being asked on what they think works and how they would like the exhibition space to look. More detailed concepts will then be drawn up and final designs submitted in the spring, with the museum re-opening to the public in 2018.
Presto Dimensions (Netherlands) created wide-format prints on its Mutoh machine to decorate 60 containers inside and outside. The company used Trespa panels wrapped with full colour prints to create this modular village at the police, fire and ambulance training center in Vught, Netherlands.
Project Print Management delivered this impressive trompe l’oeil building wrap. PPM chief Justin Murray said getting the artwork right was tricky. “Ideally the photo is taken head on, in the middle at first floor height to help ensure perspectives are as accurate as possible. The photos were uploaded to our designer who stitched them together and ensured the colour was accurate to blend in with the actual buildings on the street to better fool the eye.”
Project Print Management pulled together this printed hoarding design for Westminster Abbey. It replaces traditional sign writing graphics installed in April and intended to remain in-situ for a year but requiring replacement due to construction work.
“To avoid this happening again we created the new hoarding so the design was on either two, three or four panels, as opposed to one continuous design,” said Project Print Management’s Justin Murray. “This is so that when the construction site morphs, the hoarding design can also be altered without having an impact on the overall design. This ensures the hoarding panels can be reused during the course of the building project.”
This new hoarding has been digitally printed onto 3mm aluminium composite panels and over-laminated with an anti-graffiti film for additional protection.
“As this hoarding is right in front of the abbey entrance we needed an early start to install it,” added Murray. “We arrived at 5.45am and managed to get most of the panels up by 11am.”
This image shows one of the wallart solutions possible using Avery Dennison’s recently launched MPI 8000 Series of multi-purpose inkjet wall films. Newly available from William Smith, these films can be used on various wall finishes including treated wood, latex painted, plastered and concrete walls.