Brian Murphy

American Airlines Center - American Airlines looked to EG and the studio to make their vision of the company’s history and pageantry come to life within Dallas' newest multi-purpose arena. In 5,000 sq ft / 114,000 cu ft of permanent exhibit space at the principal entrance of the Center, the design surveys the chronicle of American’s operation from 1926 to the present with historic logotype banners, HD screens running flight footage, and 15 museum-quality model aircraft, designed and fabricated in the studio.

NOKIA Comdex 2002 - With Nokia’s entry in ‘the change from radio to TV for mobile communication’, they recognized a similar change. -still Connecting People, but with a totally NEW set of rules. EG’s exhibit design represented this shift from verbal to visual with a multi-leveled, multi-layered, multi-colored experience that both invited and interacted with its audience…three 9’tall 3650 model phones housing 50” flat screens received e.mailed images from live phones on the showfloor and around the city.

i2 Technologies Planet 2000 - EG and the studio designed and constructed i2 tradeshow properties with inspiration from customer-success and the i2 solutions that aided that success. The customer wall features 6 vacuum-formed panels which, from the within the property, act as display-pods for customer products and stories. On the reverse side, i2's logo is repeated in relief, noting it's ever-present, but behind-the-scenes involvement in helping businesses work better. annual report meets architecture.

Nortel Supercom '99-2000 - Nortel Networks' tradeshow architecture, designed, managed, and constructed by EG and the studio, debuted at SuperComm 2000, winning Best of Show. It’s design told the story of both hi-tech and high-touch. It included unconventional construction technologies introduced by the studio (illuminated and fiberglass archways, water-like vacuum-formed walls) but always returned to the idea of the Internet as a “networked Neighborhood” and Nortel’s new understanding of the human experience.

NOKIA Museum Exhibit - The addition of Nokia designs into the collection of the Museum of Modern Art offered pointed inspiration to EG and the studio. The Nokia Museum, "Modern Art You Can Grasp", became an exhibit within an exhibit, welcoming visitors to view it's collection or find refuge in it’s sculpture garden. The studio's alternative materials approach of contoured foam with an acrylic/stucco coating made up the majority of the exhibit structure, allowing the sculptural look to be produced at a low cost.