Design

Best Exhibit Graphics of 2012

These designs stand out on show floors and inside corporate displays.

Published

12 years ago

February 23, 2012

Steve Aust Signs of the Times March 2012 Issue

First Place
Fabricator
Moss Inc.
Belfast, ME
(207) 930-1403
www.mossinc.com

Designer
EP&M Intl.
Albany, NY
(518) 433-0043
www.epmexhibits.com

Client
General Electric (GE)

The American Wind Energy Assn.’s annual Windpower Conference & Exhibition is the world’s largest wind-focused tradeshow. EP&M Intl.’s design team showcased GE’s brand, products and services for this dynamic industry. The unique, overhead, fabric construction appears to float above the attendees, with 3-D elements and Innovative Concert Lighting overhead illumination. Moss Inc. produced the large, overhead structure’s fabric framing and skin. The space also includes 10 NEC LCD and one Panasonic plasma display screens. Dottinger Design (Pompton Lakes, NJ) produced the digitally printed and illuminated graphics, and supervised installation, which was completed by Renaissance Management workers.

Second Place
Fabricator
Kubik
Mississauga, ON, Canada
(905) 272-2818
www.thinkubik.com

Designer
Lorenc+Yoo Design
Roswell, GA
(770) 645-2828
www.lorencyoodesign.com

Client
Brookfield

Brookfield, an international, real-estate-development firm, wanted to make a splash with its booth space at the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) RECON 2011 tradeshow in Las Vegas. Lorenc+Yoo Design principal Jan Lorenc said, “The design’s intention was creating a mobile version of Brookfield’s modern NYC headquarters using metal, acrylic, glass and lighting. Brookfield selected an island floorspace at the ICSC show, which challenged us to address all four sides.”
Lorenc+Yoo’s solution entailed a chamfered, bevel-clad, metal façade on every side, with acrylic panels and an illuminated band and logo along the back wall. The unified video monitors – which display supersized images of Brookfield’s properties – comprise inner, acrylic frames and exterior, metal-clad frames. Lorenc explained, “Flat-screen monitors have become more affordable, so we were able to incorporate these panels as a primary façade component. The frames add to the booth’s overall quality, which differentiates the exhibit from others.”

Third Place
Fabricator
Britten Inc.
Traverse City, MI
(231) 995-8626
www.brittenbanners.com

Designers
Chris McClure
Alex Zartman
ESPN

Client
ESPN

Britten Inc. gave this hallway at ESPN’s Stamford, CT corporate headquarters a mixed-media treatment that celebrates the X Games extreme-sports competition. The program, which Britten designed using Adobe Photoshop® and InDesign®, includes more than 1,500 sq. ft. of .062-gauge, aluminum-support tubing and 2,000 sq. ft. of digitally printed vinyl decals. They comprise Wall & Deco wallpaper, which was printed on an HP Scitex TurboJet 8500 UV Turbojet with Caldera’s GrandRIP+® software, and 4 x 10-ft. sheets of 3-mil 3A Composites Dibond® composite materials decorated on an HP FB6700 flatbed printer and cut on an Esko Kongsberg i-cut XL 24 digital cutter. More than 400 LED modules provide banner backlighting, and the job entailed 150-plus onsite hours were required to complete its installation.

Honorable Mention
Fabricator
Sign Effectz Inc.
Milwaukee
(414) 264-5504
www.signeffectz.com

Designers
Adam Brown
Don Nummerdor
Rick Rossetti
Jason Wamser
Sign Effectz

Client
Discovery World

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