On projects they’re most proud of …
Bowie: We do work in the financial markets with the big banks and we do work with government and that does not tend to be as cutting edge.
But the work we do at museums and theme parks typically the designers they are wanted as something new and different and so almost any job we work on in that arena is to some degree groundbreaking because that is sort of the nature of the business, everybody wants something new. Almost every job we work on is memorable.
Simpson: There’s a picture of it is on page 184. The section is called “The Two Newseums,” and if you look at the bottom of page 184, you will see this very wide screen thing, technically at the time [1997] that was more than cutting edge. In fact, we were biting our nails as to whether it was going to work, but that is another story. That was a hugely influential project and one we were terribly proud to have been able to achieve.
If you look on page 164 there is a table of expo projects and one of my favorites has to be the telecommunications pavilion at Expo 92 where we built an 850-monitor videowall, which I think still holds the record for the most number of glass monitors. These are CRT monitors and it was interpreting an exhibition designers concept and actually literally doing what he wanted, which was you would have a pixilated wall where every pixel [represented part of the globe] and that was fun to do. Again, I am very proud of the fact that not only could we do it, but we could do it for the price, because it is all well to say you could do something, but can you actually do it on time and on budget so those sort of things are fun and these are projects that I personally was very much involved with.
Electrosonic built the world’s largest videowall at EXPO 92 in Seville with 850 CRT monitors.
