Post 9/11 and in a competitive air travel market, airports need to keep their passengers happy. Effective wayfinding and memorable graphics are a big part of the equation.
Almost a decade beyond 9/11 and smack in the middle of a serious economic recession, the mantra of the air travel industry can be summed up in two words: customer experience.
Electroland’s LED installation comments on Los Angeles’ love affair with cars and movies.
Los Angeles is known for its obsessions, most notably with cars and movies. Drive By, a 240-ft.-long by 6-ft.-high LED installation in North Hollywood, brings the two together in a dynamic piece of public art that responds to traffic levels and recreates great moments from classic Hollywood films.
Completed in October 2001, the Hollywood Shadow Project is a series of seven installations dispersed throughout the production area of Hollywood. The designs are derived from photographs of familiar and iconic movie scenes. At the end of the day, the sun passes through these sculptures and casts shadows on other buildings. The intention is to evoke memory, as it is constituted via photographs and movies, and re-present this memory on the site of its invention: Hollywood. All of the sites incorporate buildings and businesses involved in making movies.
Drive By, a custom 240-ft.-long by 6-ft.-high LED display, comments on Los Angeles’ driving culture as well as its love affair with the movies. A Percent for Art project commissioned by the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency and completed in May 2007, it was intended as a landmark work to complement a nearby Metrorail stop.
The goal of Enteractive, an interactive installation located at 11th and Flower streets in downtown Los Angeles, was not only to enliven a public space and create a unique sense of place, but to create an experience that allows people to relate to architecture on a human scale.
Eighty-one colored lights cover a distance of over 180 meters, visible both inside and outside the building. Visitors instantly manipulate lighting patterns through touching single digit keys on their mobile phone.
Santa Monica Civic Center Parking Structure Signage
The goal of Enteractive, an interactive installation located at 11th and Flower streets in downtown Los Angeles, was not only to enliven a public space and create a unique sense of place, but to create an experience that allows people to relate to architecture on a human scale.
