Creative Cut 2016-17

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2016-2017

For more than 50 years, Duggal Visual Solutions has served as an industry leader in visual communication, photographic printing and lab services, digital imaging, retouching, multimedia and wide-format graphics. Widely considered the premier photo lab in the world, Duggal is a favorite among photographers, artists, museums and top retail brands. The projects in this edition of our Creative Cut represent a small sampling of our work from this past year as featured on our blog, Duggal Connect, a meeting point for an open discussion about art, design and the creative process. We at Duggal Visual Solutions channel years of experience and observation into Duggal Connect in the hopes of sparking your imagination and inspiring your next creative endeavor, whether it’s an ingenious project, a hip new gadget or a trip to a museum. At Duggal Connect you’ll find a vast array of content – from blurbs to in-depth analyses; techniques to tips; events to exhibits and much more. The Duggal team invites you to explore, learn, share and connect at www.duggal.com/connect

David Yurman

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Life Magazine Photo Exhibition Duggal Innovations: GlobalShop2016

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Tourbillon

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Peter D. Gerakaris

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Eileen Fisher

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Yotel

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Marimekko Starbucks

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Frank Lloyd Wright at the Guggenheim Museum

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International Center of Photography

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Lancôme

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Dunkin’ Donuts Erno Lazlo Institute

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Neue Galerie

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Dylan’s Candy Bar

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Alex Cao

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Clifford Ross

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TimeCrafters 2016

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Real Estate Arts US Open 2016 Starwood Hotels

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Make-A-Wish Foundation

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AOL Newfront 2016

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Symantec Tullamore Dew

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L’Oreal

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Walter Iooss

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Platform Summit

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Spike Lee’s Prince Tribute

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The Duggal Greenhouse

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Index by Product and Services

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Innovations for David Yurman

David Yurman personifies the art of jewelry making, from the celebrated Cable bracelet to the signature Albion collection. For 35 years, Yurman and his wife, Sybil, have created their own aesthetic equilibrium of form, color, light and shape. Yurman’s vision stands front and center in Saks Fifth Avenue, where a custom-fabricated display showcases his finest work against a backdrop illustrating his creative process through overlaid video of sketches and silhouettes, and in David Yurman stores across the U.S. Our Role Duggal’s Steve Arnesen has been working with the David Yurman brand since 2007, collaborating with the brand’s retail and in-store designers to bring their visions to life.

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The Gallery@Spring: NYC Fashion History Through LIFE Archives As LIFE magazine celebrated its 80th anniversary in Summer 2016, the Gallery@Spring featured images from original LIFE photographers who captured the fashion icons from the 1940s to 1970s, including Audrey Hepburn, Eartha Kitt, Jessica Tandy, Marlon Brando, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt and Marilyn Monroe. Our Role Duggal fine art manager Hillary Altman and production coordinator Jonathan Springer consulted with Spring Studios to produce the prints for The Gallery@Spring, including scanning from the original negatives, image restoration, framing and printing (both color and black and white).

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Duggal Innovations: Our Award-Winning Presence at GlobalShop 2016 For more than 50 years, Duggal has had the privilege of working with the world’s top artists, photographers, retailers and corporations. Through our many collaborations, amazing things have happened. We inspire each other and work together to make our customers stand out through our unique mix of old- world craftsmanship and the technology of tomorrow.

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Duggal has channeled decades of professional practice to focus on building a diverse range of capabilities based on stunningly new technologies. The results were on full display in our award- winning presence at GlobalShop 2016, the world’s largest visual merchandising trade show, where Duggal took home top awards and honors: Best of Competition and Best in Booth Design. “We were impressed with the variety of product and design, and the booth’s bold visual statement,” an awards judge said.

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Tourbillon is a focal point of the Miami Design District’s newly developed Palm Court. The distinguished timepiece and jewelry maker attracts shoppers with a unique illuminated display built into the upper level of the storefront’s façade. Our Role Tourbillon designers called on Duggal to achieve their vision of a softly backlit image housed within an architectural “window closet.” Duggal installation experts navigated a two-foot-wide crawl space to install energy-efficient, high-intensity LED light panels along the back wall. The lighting fixtures create a backlit effect on a stretched fabric graphic framed from the inside for a fluid appearance.

Tourbillon Boutique Glimmers in Miami Design District

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Peter D. Gerakaris Creates ‘Floating Garden’ for The Surrey

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Commissioned forTheSurrey and curatedbyArtMuse founderNatashaSchlesinger, Floating Garden was Duggal client Peter Gerakaris’ bright, botanical, mixed-media installation transforming three sides of the renowned hotel’s seasonal Private Rooftop Garden. Our Role Having had past successes with Gerakaris’ work at Bergdorf Goodman and Cornell Tech, Duggal was entrusted to produce the vivid Floating Garden mural that generates a sense of convergence between nature and culture.

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Tropicalia - Commemorating Cornell Tech Campus’ Groundbreaking on Roosevelt Island

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Cornell University’s Cornell Tech finally found its own home on Roosevelt Island, New York. To help show off their new digs, Cornell commissioned artist Peter Gerakaris to create a work commemorating the historic groundbreaking. Tropicália is an immersive, mixed media, site-specific installation speaking to the future of the university’s presence on Roosevelt Island by fusing art, technology, place and community. Our Role Duggal proudly produced the vinyl prints Gerakaris assembled on site in a large format collage.

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Less than two weeks after a gunman killed 49 people and injured 53 others in Orlando’s Pulse gay nightclub, LGBTQ Pride Week 2016 brought an overflow of emotion, togetherness and support. Our Role As businesses across NYC decorated their quarters in solidarity of NYC Pride Week, Duggal’s Susanne Cyrgalis and Marty McDonough worked with Eileen Fisher designers Mark Goulet, Jeremy Silberbeg and Kelly Crimmins to produce a colorful, 48-piece Pride display for the fashion brand’s Fifth Avenue store at 21st Street.

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Chandeliers are Inspired by the Brand’s Quirky Mascot Just a few blocks from bustling Times Square, YOTEL New York welcomes visitors to a sleek lobby accented by a combination of high-tech touches and fun quirks, namely a statue of the distinct YOTEL mascot, “Shaggy.” Our Role The YOTEL experience comes together above head with a collection of glistening chandeliers designed by Brooklyn-based artist Ian Sklarsky for YOTEL’s holiday installation. The five hanging pieces–which are actually inspired by “Shaggy” himself– werecustomcutandassembledbyfabrication experts at Duggal Visual Solutions.

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As Christmastime neared and New York City began to feel like a life-sized Christmas Village, Marimekko charmed holiday shoppers with an enchanting “Christmas City” encased in their NYC flagship windows. Our Role After commissioning designer and illustrator Lotta Nieminen to create a holiday display inspired by the cheerful and warm colors of the new Marimekko winter collection, the Finnish design house called on Duggal to construct a large, intricate piece that required ultimate die- cut precision. Similar graphics produced by Duggal adorned several other Marimekko stores across the U.S.

A Christmas City comes to life at

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Starbucks: Brand Messaging Through Architecture & Design It’s not just the coffee that keeps people coming back; the Starbucks experience is one of superior service, environmental awareness and ethical sourcing stitched together with cohesive, creative design. It would be quite easy for Starbucks to replicate a mold blueprint across all of its stores worldwide. But instead, they choose to engage visitors with a visual atmosphere and ambiance unique to each location, often drawing inspiration from the surrounding area’s character and lifestyle. Our Role As Starbucks’ preferred graphics and material production consultant, Duggal works alongside their world-class team to develop captivating visuals on unconventional surfaces.

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Tribute to Frank Lloyd Wright

Equally fascinating as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s engaging art exhibitions is the story behind the construction of the museum itself, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Undoubtedly Wright’s most recognized masterpiece, the Guggenheim pays tribute to its architectural father with A Long-Awaited Tribute: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian House and Pavilion. Our Role Duggal Visual Solutions had the honor of helping the Guggenheim refresh A Long-Awaited Tribute: Frank LloydWright’s UsonianHouse and Pavilion, a permanent exhibition originally installed in 2012.

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In 2015, the International Center of Photography turned the page to a new chapter at 250 Bowery, an 11,000-square-foot space in the heart of New York’s creative scene. The Bowery community and tourists engaged with the very first ICP installment at its new home while it was still being built, thanks to a window display of vintage black-and-white Weegee imagery. Then came the #helloicp interactive photo mural, which lit up the museum’s facade every evening through October. Our Role Duggal Visual Solutions serves as ICP’s trusted graphics and material consulting provider, bringing the latest large format printing technology to the museum’s street level windows. For ICP, an Exciting New Chapter Begins

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Introduces New Auda(city) Eyeshadow Palette

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Just in time for Fall 2015 fashion, Lancôme launched the Auda[city] Eyeshadow Palette which offers a rich assortment of neutral shades inspired by the streets of Paris. Our Role Having worked with Lancôme for nearly a decade, Duggal Visual Solutions senior consultant Tracy Pisarczyk, sales manager Mark Wenger and coordinator Mike Hugasyan were called on to visually synchronize the Auda[city] rollout in U.S. stores. Duggal produced more than 1,000 continuous tone C-prints on transparent Duratrans display film for locations across the country, anchored by a gorgeous custom lightbox at Macy’s Herald Square in New York. The result was a launch surely worthy of a rosé toast.

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Dunkin’ Donuts’ Colombian Packaged Coffee is the brand’s first ever single-origin coffee, and also its first-ever Rainforest Alliance Certified™ coffee. Full-bodied, sweet and aromatic, the medium Colombian roast is the perfect way to enjoy the Dunkin’ Donuts coffee “America runs on” while in the comfort of your own home. Our Role Pleasantville, NY-based LAM Design turned to Duggal to replicate the unique foil effects and subtle interplay of opaque matte, white and gloss that their designers had created–properties that are not viewable on a computer screen. Colombian Packaged Coffee

Duggal Packaging Division was able to produce the prototype foil packaging comps that ultimately gained design approval and served as on-press color and finish guidance.

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An Extra Glow in Erno Lazlo’s SOHO Institute First opened in 2012, the Erno Laszlo Institute in SoHo, New York City welcomes fashionistas and luxury enthusiasts to a world-class skin care experience that includes a comprehensive skin type consultation followed by a 75-minute bespoke treatment. Our Role Erno Laszlo’s meticulous attention to detail is conveyed visually within the Institute. Duggal senior project manager Jerry Ibaran consulted with the Erno Laszlo design team to produce 45 sleek, laser-cut panels that add a crystal-clear complexion on all sides of the elevator serving the three-level space.

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The Berlin Metropolis at Neue Galerie Highlighted in an exhibit at the Neue Gallerie, The Berlin Metropolis, were more than 300 works from the greatest artists of the Weimar Republic, encompassing all of the color and chaos that defined a short era in German history. Organized by Dr. Olaf Peters, Professor of Art History at theMartin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, the exhibit was designed chronologically to mirror the development of Berlin. Our Role We at Duggal are proud to continue our long-standing relationship with the esteemed Neue Gallerie, and to have provided a variety of print graphics for this remarkable exhibition, including magic canvas wall murals, gallery Plexi-mounted prints and CAD cut wall text.

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Sweet!

Opens in Union Square

Whimsical candy land and savory sweets purveyor, Dylan’s Candy Bar recently opened a new shop in New York City’s Union Square. Located at 33 Union Square West in what was once the Andy Warhol Factory Building, founder Dylan Lauren’s sixth store nationwide is a downtown-cool extension of the original Dylan’s Candy Bar on the Upper East Side. Our Role The Union Square Candy Bar pops with colorful graphics and displays. Duggal visual expert Brittany Wirtz collaborated with the Dylan’s brand team, Paulette Mancuso of PMI and Chute Gerdeman, to create a gorgeous light box and illuminated logo designed to match the store fixtures while reminding customers that they are indeed in a sweet wonderland.

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Building Art Curatorial Program Commissions Duggal Client Alex Cao

Our good friend, Alex Guofeng Cao, was commissioned to liven up a New York City building lobby. Known for his images featuring cultural icons composed of mini-pixel images of other cultural icons, Alex worked with Building Art Curatorial Program (BACP) visionary Cindy Glanzrock to create an Elvis-themed installation at 270 Madison Ave. Look closely and you’ll see tiny portraits of Andy Warhol. Our Role Duggal had a blast collaborating with Alex and Cindy, not only to produce the site-specific piece, but also to execute a challenging install.

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Clifford Ross: Landscape Seen & Imagined.

Renowned artist Clifford Ross’ latest body of work, Landscape Seen & Imagined, was a magnificently large-scale survey spanning two buildings, six galleries and an outdoor courtyard at theMassachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA). The centerpiece, a towering 25-foot-high, 114-foot-wide photograph printed on raw wood, spanned the entire length of the museum’s tallest gallery. Our Role Ross has worked with Duggal fine art account manager Hillary Altman for the past five years and called on us to execute his grand vision for the giant, unconventional medium. Duggal’s wide format team produced 90 panels, each matching perfectly in both size and visual flow. The end result was easily one of the largest museum- quality photographs you will ever see.

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Upscale Watch Brands Showcase Their Finest Timepieces

TimeCrafters 2016 brought 18 internationally renowned watch brands under one roof to showcase their most impressive and ingenious timepieces at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. 2016 marked the first year of full-scale creative production for TimeCrafters, with global marketing firmHavasWorldwide helping to more than double the 2015 turnout through a heightened social media and PR presence. Our Role Havas Worldwide called on Duggal Visual Solutions to create several brand booths for the show. Highlights included a wall display with 729 individual, uniquely printed cubes for A. Lange & Söhne, an exquisitely custom space for Roger Dubuis, and a traveling exhibition for Jaeger-LeCoultre.

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Jaeger-LeCoultre

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Roger Dubuis

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114 West 41ST Street ‘Discover Different’ in the Heart of Midtown Manhattan Building a winning company culture starts with choosing a space that exudes energy, character and ingenuity. Real Estate Arts, the marketing and branding agency behind some of New York’s most distinctly branded commercial properties, invites you to ‘Discover Different’ at 114 West 41st Street. Our Role Duggal is a trusted graphics partner to Real Estate Arts, helping them to convert empty retail spaces into temporary marketing centers that embody a given building’s brand identity. The result of our work on 114W41 is an absolutely gorgeous space featuring adhesive vinyl floor and wall graphics, branded furniture, display panels, 3D light boxes, custom projector screens, hanging Plexi pieces and more.

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A Truly Special US Open

Duggal Visual Solutions congratulates the United States Tennis Association (USTA) on another successful US Open–quite possibly the most memorable yet. Our Role Every summer, Duggal’s Hillary Altman leads our production and installation team in preparing the 50- acre Billie Jean King National Tennis Center for the global stage.

In 2016, Duggal had opening honors to produce the first on-court sponsorship graphics to be installed in the renovated Ashe and new Grandstand stadiums. We also created amore than 23-foot-tall #PlayForLife graphic, along with the last graphics to adorn the legendary Louis Armstrong Stadium before it is replaced with a bigger, roof-ready stadium (also to be named after Armstrong).

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One of the best places to soak up the US Open experience while avoiding the summer heat is in the Starwood Preferred Guest Luxury Suite. SPG members are also transported in luxury, via a complimentary SPG pedicab from the subway to the US Open entrance. Our Role Duggal senior consultant Carole Garcia and production coordinator Jonathan Cooper collaborated with Velo-Ride to decorate a fleet of five BicyTaxi vehicles for the US open with Starwood-branded graphics. Duggal also created banners for the SPG pedicab pickup kiosk on the US Open boardwalk, along with an endless array of visuals throughout the US Open grounds. Riding with Starwood Hotels at the US Open

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Metro New York Takes 11,000th ‘Wish Kid’ to NFL HQ Since 1980, the Make-A-Wish Foundation has been touching the lives of children battling life-threatening illnesses by making their dreams come true. In 2016, the Make-A-WishMetroNewYork chapter and theNational Football League–a key Make-A-Wish partner since the start–celebrated a milestone 11,000th wish granted. Our Role Duggal followed NYC wish kid Charlie Eden on an inside access tour of theNFL headquarters inManhattan, capturing the day’s excitement on video. From rings to trophies to meetings with commissioner Roger Goodell and Super Bowl champion Roman Oben, it was an inspiring day that we will hold as close to our hearts as Charlie will.

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Produced by award-winning event planning agency Barkley Kalpak Agency (BKA), the 2016 edition of AOL NewFronts turned New York’s South Street Seaport into a hip, high-profile block party as AOL introduced its newest programming, partnerships and technologies with the help of top brands and celebrities. Our Role Duggal had the opportunity to produce and install an array of large format graphics for AOL and featured brands, including banners, signs, posters, backdrops, booths and more. Thank you to AOL and BKA for bringing us into production for the coolest NewFront yet! AOL Newfront Takes Over South Street Seaport

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Operating in 48 countries with roughly 21,500 employees and more than 1,900 global patents, Symantec is home to the brightest minds in all of tech. Likewise, many of the world’s most valuable corporations rely on the provider’s technological leadership in the protection of data. Our Role Led by creative director Glenn Rabbach and coordinator Blaze Gregorio, Duggal produced and installed more than 10,000 square feet of material for Symantec’s newest corporate location just outside of Boston. Designing Symantec’s Cambridge Offices

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Duggal got to experience the excitement of the 2015 Rugby World Cup in spirited fashion at Tullamore D.E.W.’s pop-up, pub-inspired fan zone in New York City Oct. 7, created by our friends at Momentum Worldwide. The event was a big part of Tullamore’s first-ever campaign with an international sporting event, as well as William Grant & Sons’ overarching campaign as the Official Spirits & Champagne Tournament Provider of Rugby World Cup 2015. Our Role The Tullamore D.E.W. fan zone was a creative, memorable and truly immersive brand experience. Duggal Senior Account Executive Carole Garcia partners with Momentum to provide graphics that draw passersby to these awesome promotions. Cheers to another successful collaboration between multiple brands that understand the power of visual engagement. A Pop-Up Rugby World Cup Fan Zone with Free Whiskey

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Matrix: High Fashion Hair Care From

Founded in 1980 by legendary hairdresser Arnie Miller, L’Oreal Matrix is the number one American hair care brand in the world. Its slogan, “Imagine All You Can Be,” is reminiscent of L’Oreal’s classic 1973 ad campaign with the now brand-defining phrase, “Because I’m Worth It.” Our Role L’Oreal called onDuggal to help spotlight the Matrix Total Results line of hair products. Duggal’s Brooklyn fabrication team created a custom, 7-foot illuminated display with clear acrylic shelves and strategic LED lighting designed to showcase Matrix’s special hair formulas from all viewing angles.

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Chicagoans, basketball fans and sneaker heads of all ages relived Michael Jordan’s eminence through the photography of Walter Iooss in Open Air, a free outdoor exhibition on display at the Field Museum. Sponsored by Nike in collaboration with the Chicago Park District, Open Air featured 30 of Iooss’ most iconic images representing 30 years of the Air Jordan brand.

Walter Iooss Air Jordan Launch Chicago Outdoor Photo Exhibition

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Our Role Walter Iooss collaborated with our very own Hope Savvides and Demian Cacciolo as Duggal produced durable, direct-to-Dibond pieces optimized for the outdoor Open Air exhibition. Here’s to relivingMichael Jordan’smagnificentcareerthroughtheworkofperhaps the world’s most recognized sports photographer.

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Creative Messaging: The Platform Summit

Sponsored by the likes of Credit Suisse, Google and Time Warner, the 2nd Annual Platform Summit attracted a wave of thought leaders, students and emerging vanguards to Atlanta for an immersive experience. The three-day event was hosted by Morehouse College and Georgia Tech, and was presented in partnership with #YesWeCode, a national grassroots initiative to train 100,000 low-opportunity youths to be professional computer coders. Our Role Duggal worked with Kamhi Kolor and global design leader Pentagram to create unique event graphics for the Platform Summit, printing directly on large balloons and wrapping corrugated tubes with distinct Platform brand messaging. Words like “prosper” and “inspire” hovered above the Ray Charles Performing Arts Center, while cylindrical wayfinding signage directed viewers to different areas of the conference. A 30-foot blimp drew eyes from miles away.

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On the Saturday before what would have been Prince’s 58th birthday, Spike Lee brought fans, Brooklynites, celebrities and public figures together for what he called the Prince Born Day Purple People Party. Our Role Duggal joined in the tribute as associates Hardy Rosenstein and Steve Pinello helped to produce a 29’ x 16’ large format banner of Prince’s symbol perched atop a building directly above the event stage. Spike Lee Paints Brooklyn Purple with Prince Born Day Party

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Some of the events hosted at the

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Piaget event photo: Hausmann Park

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Bringing Christian Louboutin’s New Fragrances to Life in Saks Fifth Ave When Christian Louboutin creates, the world watches. In 2016, the famed French designer recently released his first fragrance line. While the scents are enticing both by name and by nose, what really sets the fragrances apart from the standard allure is the keepsake. The Louboutin perfume bottles themselves are works of art, designed by renowned architect Thomas Heatherwick. Our Role Duggal Visual Solutions was entrusted to harness Christian Louboutin’s signature showmanship and vision into a set of truly “traffic-stopping” window exhibits at Saks Fifth Avenue in New York City. Duggal produced four unique environments, each embodying the mood of a particular Louboutin fragrance. The displays include everything from 3D backdrops and sleek custom light boxes to custom artwork, printed fabrics, mixed materials and a video loop.

In loving memory of Baldev Duggal 1937 - 2016

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3D/Lentincular Printing Artisan Framing Audio Visual Services

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Banners

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Brand Messaging CAD Cut Vinyl Graphics

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Custom Commercial Graphics

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Custom Fabrication Custom Installation Die Cut Graphics

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Event Graphics

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Fiber Optics

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Fine Art Photographic Printing

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Fine Art Printing Gallery Plexi Mounting

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HD C Prints

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Image Restoration

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Interactive Design and Production Large Format Printing/Graphics

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Laser Cut Graphics

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Laser Optics LED Graphics Light Boxes Media Mirror

Retail Rollouts

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Self Adhesive Vinyl

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Sporting Event Graphics Trade Show Graphics

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Merchandising Systems Museum Exhibition Graphics

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Transparent LCD

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Packaging Prototypes Printing to Glass Printing to Wood

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Transparent Media Mesh

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Vehicle Wraps Video Display Wall Murals

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