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A public-art display creatively incorporates electronic message centers.
By Steve Aust
Coordinating ST’s International Sign Contest annually provides one of my most enjoyable job duties. The opportunity to review hundreds of top-flight projects that arrive through the transom – mostly on our FTP server and via email – always delivers an exhilarating experience.
Given the quality of entries we receive, it’s always unfortunate that some very worthwhile signage doesn’t make the winners’ circle. But, just because an entry doesn’t earn recognition in the contest gallery, it may still appear on our pages. This month, we’ve culled through several submissions left in the field and compiled this gallery.
As they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Maybe you’ll like some of the signage presented here more than those that earned glory in last month’s issue. In any event, ST proudly offers the “best of the rest.”
Legacy Partners, which operates numerous commercial and residential properties throughout California, and its general contractor, Webcor, hired Arrow Sign Co. (Oakland) and HKS Architects Inc. (Beverly Hills, CA) to collaborate for the 1600 Vine Jennifer Steinkamp public-art project. It incorporates eight, 4 x 25-ft., ArrowVision LED messageboard columns that display varied digital-art pieces in front of the Legacy Colonnades, a Los Angeles residential development.
The displays include a steel structure secured to a concrete base and a 3⁄16-in.-thick, aluminum wrap. The displays entail 16mm-pixel, 8mm, virtual modules sheathed in non-glare, laminated-glass panels and secured with anodized-aluminum standoffs.
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