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The Lab > Optically clear film
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 Complex designs and white ink are easy and quick to apply now
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Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
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Super Graphics where you can see through into meeting rooms
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Dividing screen between the breakout and eating area
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Seclusion graphics beside offices let you see in and out
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Barclays Global Investors
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Lift lobbies where you can see though to the working areas
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An balance of privacy and colour coding
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You can see Anzac bridge though the map of Australia as you climb the stairs
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If applied directly to glass this type of film cannot be seen at all and it's not the misty stuff most printers try and tell you is clear, that's usually a type of PVC vinyl. This material is made from a hard polyester film that comes from a renewable resource.
The ink used isn't as bad for the environment either - where traditional solvent inks open up the pores and the ink is soaked up and the solvent evaporates leaving the colour - this ink is a pigment based powder that sits on the surface and is baked on with UV lamps. It creates an interesting effect also, where there's ink it's matt and slightly metallic when light is seen through it and where there is no ink it's a high gloss surface like glass.
The print quality is superb and very durable. The films come in temporary to multiple levels of permanency and thickness.
A great feature is that you can print white which you can't with traditional printing machines unless you use screen printing which is expensive and quite bad for the environment.
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There is a fair amount of glass in this building as there is in most new environments, keeping an air of openness. This opportunity was well used with graphics specially treated with completely clear areas that allow the viewer to see what is behind or though the other side.
Several uses ranging from graphics communicating the theme as environmental art, seclusion graphics for offices and meeting rooms and dividers in breakout areas.
Related projects:
Dept. Agriculture Wayfinding
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The graphic symbol of a globe was used across multiple applications as the glue to hold these environmental graphics together. This symbol appeared on the lift lobby doors and created a divide without boxing the lobbies in.
Simple seclusoin graphics were used on the meeting rooms with colour coding to easy orientation within the building.
Related projects:
Barclays Global Investors
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