Previews of the Visual Content – huge analog and digital panorama projections on 3 floors – all-in-all over 500 square meters of projection design.

The guests were welcomed in the foyer by a static, analog, 360-degree projection showing an artistic pipe structure. The structure was individually created and designed to fit the architecture and to cope with the room itself. The pipes were the first hint to the new brand and the color rings on some pipes were second, without revealing too much…

An overview of the 360-degree slide installation in the Foyer, set on stage with Pani high-power projectors. The pipes seem to come out of the walls – a nice optical illusion using mapping technology.

On the other side of the mainroom, was Room3. These 2 rooms – Foyer and Room3 -”embrace”  the mainroom, so we continued the pipe structure concept from the Foyer to Room3 and set this architectural embrace in the visual content on stage. (This concept goes further after the “uncovering” of the new logo.) The concept was extended by 2 more additions: First, more concentration on the main CI color and second, the idea that the further one (physically) moves in the location, the more tight, and compact the visual becomes.

Following the concept of the Foyer, but with more focus on the main CI color and a tighter adjustment of the structure. During the employees event evening, an internal video was shown additionally on one the of the big pipes in Room3.

The “Flashlight Clip” was the welcome content in the mainroom. Again it is dealing with pipes. The basic elements are 2 image layers – a wire 2D-rendering and a high detail 3D-rendering of the same pipe structure with some lights which were moving around the walls. And everywhere the lights goes, the 3d-rendering of the wall structure became visible – similar to being in a dark room and shining a flashlight around. Very smooth and slow moving of the lights generates a calm but entertaining atmosphere, which aroused the audience’s curiosity.

As one can see, the projection fits perfectly to the architecture and generates a nice 3D-illusion using mapping technology.

Dimensions of the mainroom: Front wall: 15m*6.5m / Side walls: 10m*6.5m   ///  Video Resolution: 6.050*1.050 pixels  /// Video Projection Technic & Setup: AV Professional

A friendly welcome in an unique surrounding…                                 Stefan Wagenhofer and Harald Stindl from the Management                                                                                                                     Board are talking about the new brand: the values, the vision                                                                                                                     and the expectations.

Directly after the speeches from Management, MOTIONLAB’s “The Birth of the Logo” was shown. A 3-minute mapping video, built to take the audience on a journey to the new brand.
On the picture above: gas particle systems are searching for a way to the top (“elevator scene”).

The highlight of the show evening and the peak of the visual drama was a 3-minute audio-visual-multi-screen clip named “The Birth of the Logo”. It would be the very first time that employees would see their new brand – a unique (and tense) moment.
Although the “Flashlight Clip” aroused curiosity, it was a calm, relaxing atmosphere up until then. After speeches were given, the lights and projections went dark. All attention was targeted at the mainroom. Silence. Darkness. And then the “Logo Birth Clip” sprang into action…
Gas particles (in the new CI colors) come out of the pipes and begin searching for a way to the top. The pipe structure breaks up and the whole room feels like moving up (elevator effect). The audience follows the gas particles upwards into the pipeline network, a trip through a pipeline ending in a kind of tube-rocket-station. These tubes (part of the new blip) are shot up by the power of the gas particles in the sky and into the “typo universe” (new font). Out from this universe, the letters for the new brand name are selected and arranged slowly in the middle of the main screen . Finally, the letters and the tubes are shot out from this universe and are smashed on the wall.
The new logo is born. The huge windows on location are opened and the illuminated garden could be seen from that point on.

Above you can see a screenshot-timeline of the clip – started at the actual room situation, ending up in the new logo.

After the uncovering of the new logo, the projections in the Foyer and Room3 turned on again, thus showing the logo and slogan in every room. The blip was arranged to a kind of smart wallpaper, slogan and brand completed the design. The roller blinds of the huge windows were opened, which enlarges the rooms and gives a feeling of freedom and comfort.

Uncovering in the Foyer. Ladies and Gentlemen may we introduce… the new brand!

The pipe structure disappears, the brand claims its space. Following the design concept from the Foyer: logo, slogan and brand dominate the room now.

After the uncovering phase and the necessary “air time” for the new brand, huge panoramas were projected in the mainroom. The subjects were taken from the actual print campaign and were pimped to 270-degree moving panorama loops, which give depth, diversion and an unbelievable room feeling. Animated logo and caption completed the scenery and the music brought the audience into the relaxing part of the evening…

One of 7 subjects – “Traktor” /// Caption: “Pictured here, 90 billion cubic meters of natural gas on its way to Austria and other European destinations. And one of 13.000 land owners who make it possible.”

Motif “Heu”/// Caption: “Pictured here, 90 billion cubic meters of natural gas supplies for Austria and other European destinations. And a lot of hay.”

Motif “Biene”/// Caption: “Pictured here, 90 billion cubic meters of gas being transported to Europe. And 10 milligrams of honey being transported to a hive .”

Motif “Wanderer” /// Caption: “Pictured here, 44 billion cubic meters of gas making its way to Italy, Slovenia and Croatia. And a hiker making his way down into the valley.”

Motif “Pferde”/// Caption: “Pictured here, natural gas being supplied to Austria, Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy and Slovenia. And good grazing for the horses.”