PPS has designed and manufactured an illuminated wall display of over 15m running up the staircase of the new Lancashire headquarters of energy consultancy BIU.
The brief for the display was that it run continuously from ground to top floor, be embedded into the wall and be as flush fitting as possible, and support easily changed graphics. The overall length of the display was in excess of 15m with the longest single piece being 3500mm. A specific height of 460mm was required, combined with angled joins.
PPS manufactured a series of slim light panels directly out of 8mm thick edge lit acrylic, all angled and cut to shape so they could join together when recessed into the wall aperture. These were lit by daisy chaining built-in high intensity LED's along the top and bottom edges of the individual panels. Lengths of 28mm wide snap rails were then custom mitred together to form a graphic aperture along the top bottom and sides, mounted directly to the surrounding wall surfaces.
Blank semi rigid 2mm opal acrylic sheets were custom cut to match the light panels and printed directly onto with the Agfa Anapurna flatbed printer, providing very high resolution graphics that displayed the fine text of BIU's customer endorsement letters contained within the designs.