Artwork Installation – The Standard Insurance Company

We recently had an interesting project for longtime client The Standard.

An entire floor in their building was retrofitted for their IT Department, and they needed art for their new conference rooms, common areas, and offices.

But, not just any art, because these were not just your regular conference rooms, as you can see.  Cool, right?

Prior to beginning the project, their IT team gave us a 4-page document that described how they came up with the names for their conference rooms:  UNIVAC, UNIX, Watson, Ethernet, Pentium, and Altair.

Curating artwork to fit their requirements was a bit of a scavenger hunt, requiring us to contact museums and private collections.  Not our typical project, but we were up to the task.  It was so fun, and we got a little tech history lesson, too.  You might even call us geeks!

In the end, we provided an eclectic mix of reproduced and enlarged articles from vintage Popular Electronics magazine,

archived images from the Hagley Museum,

and an assortment of custom framed computer-tech-graphic images.

The Standard offered us a great opportunity not only to install artwork into their new IT Department, but to help tell their story and create an energetic and inspirational workspace for them.

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