Category Archives: Special Projects

Lifeguard Tower Exhibition Part 2

By Jeff | Published: June 22, 2010

Summer is here and LA County lifeguard towers are getting a makeover. Image Options donated and completed the outlined pattern printing for the lifeguard tower walls and rooftop. Through the creators of this wonderful program, Portraits of Hope, all the lifeguard tower panels were painted by youngsters and adults who often face medical, physical, or socio-economic challenges.

WATCH THE VIDEO of Tenley Molzahn from ABC’s The Bachelor with Ed and Bernie Massey from Portraits of Hope. They discuss their Summer Of Color lifeguard tower project.

To view Part 1 of this project from Image Options click here.

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Lifeguard Tower Exhibition Part 1

By Jeff | Published: April 19, 2010

The latest remarkable project from Portraits of Hope is in the works and Image Options is lending a helping hand. Portraits of Hope was developed initially for seriously ill and physically disabled children. They conceive and develop one-of-a-kind motivational art projects that merge the production of dynamic public art works with creative therapy for hospitalized children and civic education for students of all ages. The Portraits of Hope program is aimed at enriching the lives of children and adults, many who may be coping with adversity or serious illness through their participation in creative, educational, high-profile, one-of-a-kind projects.

The Project

156 of LA County’s lifeguard towers from Hermosa Beach all the way up to Zuma Beach will be getting a makeover thru Portraits of Hope. For five months, LA’s legendary beach towers will come to life in vivid designs and colors – transforming the nation’s most recognized coastline. The tower artwork will be created on temporary, professionally installed, soft-material, and flex thin-board panels that will be applied onto the outer surface of the tower structure itself. The anticipated start of the 5-month exhibition will be May 1, 2010, and the installation will remain through the end of September 2010.

The Process

Image Options received 2,125 sheets of already die cut Coroplast which is about 85,000 square feet of material and 29,400 square feet of vinyl. The Coroplast is printing on their 10ft. wide Vutek QS flatbed printers and the vinyl is prining on their 16ft. wide Vutek 5330. The prints are of outlined patterns that will then be turned over to youngsters and adults who often face medical, physical, or socio-economic challenges to paint.

Check back here later this summer to see photos of these painted panels installed on lifeguard towers throughout LA County’s beaches.

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Reliant Stadium Verizon Graphics

By Jeff | Published: March 8, 2010

Image Options handled all phases of engineering, construction, production & installation of this Verizon Wireless experiential environment at Reliant Stadium. Designed to engage and entertain the fans attending events, the initial implementation was a cooperative space between Verizon and The Houston Texans. The next phase was a revamp incorporating elements for the Houston Rodeo.

The Texans experience launched in September 09, included artificial turf flooring, large wall and storage area structures wrapped in adhesive vinyl graphics, a field goal kicking game with almost full-sized goal posts, 3D Backlit Sign, as well as interactive product kiosks and looping video content on 50″ flat screen TV’s.

In February 2010 Image Options refreshed the floor surface, all graphic and interactive elements to appeal to fans attending Houston Rodeo events. The football theme’s artificial turf was replaced with adhesive vinyl “dirt” floor graphics, the goalpost gave way to a western themed ring toss game, and a Verizon branded rodeo barrel was added to the photo-op wall. The initial installation took place over the course of 3 days, whereas the Rodeo refresh was completed in 2!

We were able to produce and complete the project on a tight timeframe within a firm budget. Our G7 Master Certified color management helped to ensure a critical corporate color match across various types of output and from one version to the next.

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Custom Skate Ramps Part 2

By Jeff | Published: January 13, 2010

Part 2 – Final Production

300 miniature skate ramps have been assembled and shipped out. The process was direct to substrate UV flatbed prints that were CNC routed and hand assembled.

To view Part 1 of the process click here.

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Custom Skate Ramps Part 1

By Jeff | Published: December 7, 2009

Part 1 – The Protoype

Being a leading large and grand format print vendor, most projects that come through Image Options are usually large in physical size, however, this recent project was pretty small. We are in the process of producing 300 custom printed and built miniature skate ramps for Eyerus, a visual communication studio. The prototyping has begun and below are some preliminary photos.

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Nike’s Innovation Space

By Jeff | Published: August 1, 2008

The Nike Innovation Space provided and opportunity to connect with key US media outlets, including USA Today, ESPN, Sports Illustrated and the Today Show, who were unable to send a representative to the Global Beijing Innovation Summit. Journalists were given an in-depth briefing on Nike’s breakthrough footwear, apparel and equipment designs.

At Nike’s Culver City office, this space was covered with mostly adhesive back vinyl prints and a torch was cut out of 1″ foam to give it a 3D appearance.

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Nike’s Olympic Jersey

By Jeff | Published: May 2, 2008

This 40ft x 70ft doublesided jersey was unveiled at the Dodger game to show the new USA Olympic softball team jersey. This jersey has now been shipped off to Beijing to be displayed at the 2008 summer Olympics.

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LRG Courvoisier Tour

By Jeff | Published: April 28, 2008

Courvoisier Teams With LRG to to bring the “Find Greatness Within” campaign to life with a temporary, co-branded retail experience called the “Pop-Up Shop.” The shops will be featured in five major U.S. cities, launching on April 17th in Los Angeles. Each store will “Pop-Up” in its host city for three days and display Courvoisier and LRG co-branded items.