Centrica HQ

BAF produced and installed a giant interactive graphic wall designed and commissioned by Wilding McArdle Wilson for the glass atrium of the UK HQ for Centrica, the worlds leading integrated energy company whose business units include British Gas and Direct Energy. The atrium graphic provides a backdrop for business activity and meeting areas. Using a combination of printed media such optically clear film, contra-vision and magnetic media, BAF created a multi faceted interactive map illustrating the activity of Direct Energy in the USA. This sits on a stunning back visual of Toronto.

Science Museum Summer 2010

BAF produced a stunning array of graphics for both permanent and temporary exhibitions at the Science Museum for Summer 2010. The Visitor Journey includes a giant 12m interior banner with various external banners, single and double sided and panels which provide way-finding and exhibition information. The Entrance Hall features Rho prints direct to brushed aluminium di-bond panels, cut out vinyl texts on striking aluminium wall feature as well as 4 Duratrans light boxes showcasing the museums attractions. Who Am I? is one of this summers most engaging visitor attractions. A large 2m wide brain printed on Duratrans was mounted on site onto supplied acrylic. Stunning 3D visual effects have been produced with mirror, and graduated colour panels.

Trash Fashion, the latest Antenna Gallery feature uses Rho to laser cut di-bond and vinyl wraps overlayed with di-bond and foamex panels. The Topic Zone is an IT interactive play area, featuring GRP formed panels and lit columns with applied printed vinyl graphics.

The newly opened London Visitor Centre is the one-stop-shop to the
capital and beyond where you can seek expert advice on sites in the city and purchase tickets.
BAF recently produced a colourful floor graphic advertising the Sea Life Aquarium for Merlin. The floor was printed from the Rho direct to 7 year life self-adhesive film, with sandtex seal which was i-cut to a crescent shape.

Reading University London Road Eat and Drink

With a brief to transform the cattle shed in the grounds of the University of Reading into a student bar and restaurant which could also be rented out for functions and weddings, BAF graphics were commissioned by Morgan Ashurst to collaborate with Architects Stride Treglown and Interior Designers Kenton Simons in creating a fun and stylish environment.

In former lives the building was home to the Food Bioscience Faculty and was used for milk processing and bottling whilst pursuing research into processing techniques. It was here that pasteurisation was developed and a vital link between milk and Tuberculosis was discovered.

BAF used their Rho 350 to produce direct to Digimura tactile wall-covering and LAMBDA print. Bold colourful images of cows on the games area walls and framed pictures of milk products around the 'Cotton Club' add to the venues dynamism and appeal.

Wedding News

We'd like to all send our Best Wishes and Congratulations to Serena White and her partner Shaun McDonald who tie the knot this Saturday! Serena has been the welcoming voice and face of BAF for four years. These stylish photos were taken by Kenny Wong Photography who will be photographing the wedding in Dulwich on Saturday 26th June.

ZSL: London Zoo

Rainforest Life, London Zoo’s new indoor experience, brings the tropics to the capital. Visitors can indulge in a much-needed boost of tropical heat and see free-roaming monkeys, sloths and a tree anteater in London’s only living rainforest.

This unique climate called for graphics that would stand the test of time in conditions of constant heat and humidity. BAF were proud to deliver, continuing a long standing relationship with the ZSL, the charity who are devoted to the worldwide conservation of animals and their habitats. Rho prints direct to marine ply panels blend in perfectly with the living foliage and wildlife. Other features include information panels with Rho to Dibond, vinyl and frosted vinyl to glass. The exhibition also includes Night Life, ZSL’s amazing nocturnal experience depicting creatures of the night in their natural habitat.

Selfridges: Sounds of The Mind

Florence and the Machine, Dizzy Rascal, Hot Chip, Charlotte Gainsbourg and The XX were among 10 artists invited to design their own window displays for Selfridges latest Art House scheme Sound of the Mind, celebrating the power of the lyric. London singer extraordinaire Paloma Faith topped the lot as she became a living part of her own display.
BAF helped the Selfridges in house VM team to turn the artistes sketches into reality by producing printed and cut vinyls, direct to substrate cut to shape foam-board and banners, producing stunningly vibrant colours with white ink backing.

Jewish Museum

London’s Jewish Museum had recently undergone a £10m transformation, creating a new museum and an inspirational place to explore culture, heritage and identity. Engaging with people of all ages, backgrounds and faiths the new galleries bring our collections to life by placing the Jewish story into the wider context of British history.
BAF transformed many of the museums walls, which now feel like a cosy mid 20th Century Jewish living room, by using textured Digimura wall-covering printed with a stress marked vintage pattern to create an aged feel.

Silk screen panels, Lambda wraps to MDF and Di-Bond plus light boxes to optical clear film were all employed to highlight the fascinating collections. Encased graphics were printed to pearlescent Lambda paper to achieve an aged gold effect.

National Army Museum

Continuing a long collaborative relationship with the National Army Museum, BAF recently installed 3 ground breaking exhibitions for them: Conflicts of Interest exploring 3 decades of the role of the British army, Korea: The Cold War’s Hot War and The Boer War.
The exhibitions called for some exciting print production methods including textured wall-covering, stencilling and on-site silk screening. Noteworthy features include a huge 8m square floor graphic produced from Rho direct to vinyl which was anti-scratch sealed, a collage of raised Dibond panels and some Rho direct to MDF jigsawed figures.
Painted walls achieved precise colour matching and were complemented with Rho direct to Dibond panels with anti-scratch, wrapped sealed on alluminium split battens.

Discover Greenwich Visitor Centre

BAF recently completed the Discover Greenwich Visitor Centre at the Old Royal Naval College in a £6 million development opened to the public on 23 March 2010.
Some of the striking graphics include a 22m x 3m wall feature, starting at 3m from the ground level, of huge vinyl lettering and line drawing illustrations. Decorative etched glass panels and Lambda prints to MDF wraps and Foamex also feature throughout

British Museum: Kingdom of Ife

This major exhibition presents exquisite examples of brass, copper, stone and terracotta sculpture from West Africa. Ife flourished as a political, spiritual, cultural and economic centre in the 12th–15th centuries AD, and was an influential hub of local and long-distance trade networks. The artists of Ife developed a refined and highly naturalistic sculptural tradition in stone, terracotta, brass and copper to create a style unlike anything in Africa at the time.

In order to match the museums precise colour palette for this extraordinary culture and produce a rustic matt finish, BAF printed images and descriptions directly to painted MDF panels using the Rho 600. Giant wallpaper drops were printed on the Rho 351 and vinyl texts were created.

Nicole Farhi: City Scheme LFW 2010

Esther Coombs beautifully crafted illustrations are more often seen on vintage ceramics than on boutique windows but when Jamie Shouli, Nicole Farhi’s Creative VM Director, discovered her work at Tent he intuited a great talent, ripe for a collaboration for his London Fashion Week scheme.
Jamie commissioned Esther to illustrate famous London landmarks which were converted by BAF into intricately cut vinyl graphics on windows, walls and Perspex for Nicole Farhi’s 5 London stores.

The stylish images perfectly enhanced the mood of Nicole Farhi’s Show Collection, imbued with a London spirit. Nicole Farhi are proud to work with up and coming artistic talent. Indeed, it makes perfect sense for both parties: Esther received many enquiries through her website and the scheme saw sales increases for the fashion brand.

Natural History Museum’s Darwin Centre

The Darwin Centre is now an iconic landmark in London. Marvel at incredible specimens, exciting displays and interactive activities, engage with scientists at work and much more in the new 8-storey landmark building. A visit will allow you to explore the new centre and glimpse the giant cocoon from all angles. Get up close to the concrete, steel and glass of this amazing architectural achievement. Designed by C F Møller Architects of Denmark, it took around 25 months and 280 people to build.

BAF produced Lambda prints mounted to glass niches throughout the exhibition areas as well as optically clear print applied to glass windows and walls.

Sea Life London Aquarium

April saw the completion of Merlin Entertainments’ multi-million pound transformation of the famous London Aquarium into a new world class aquatic experience, and leading centre of marine conservation for the UK.

The new SEA LIFE London Aquarium is home to thousands of marine creatures from green turtles to six species of shark, spread over three floors and 14 themed zones. BAF produced all the graphics including reverse mounted Lambda panels, sealed floor graphics, Rho 351 printed vinyl mounted to walls and i-cut printed foamex figures, amongst other features.

Walls feature unique textured sections which appear hand painted due to a unique heat application method where vinyl colour sinks into each crevice. Fun hanging signs with shark and fish shapes were produced by Rho printing direct to pearlescent cut acrylic and Di-bond.