{"id":1991,"date":"2016-08-23T12:49:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T12:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graphicdisplayusa.com\/blog\/?p=1991"},"modified":"2016-08-24T15:44:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T15:44:11","slug":"agio-imaging-helps-university-honor-moms-with-large-scale-gatorplast-dibond-displays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3acompositesusa.com\/blog\/agio-imaging-helps-university-honor-moms-with-large-scale-gatorplast-dibond-displays\/","title":{"rendered":"Agio Imaging Helps University Honor Moms With Large-Scale Gatorplast, Dibond Displays"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Gatorplast,For many of us, there just aren\u2019t enough ways to thank and honor our mothers for their loving care and support. Students at The University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind., have been honoring moms even before the first official Mother\u2019s Day was celebrated more than a century ago – following Notre Dame alum Frank Herring\u2019s advocacy for the holiday.
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\nDuring the past two years, The University of Notre Dame\u2019s Alumni Association has provided students with unique opportunities to honor their mothers during Mother\u2019s Day events highlighted with large-format graphic displays and has turned to Portage, Mich-based Agio Imaging<\/a> both years to execute these designs.
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\nIn 2015, Agio Imaging, a large-format custom print solution provider, created a 29-foot by 21-foot interlocking \u201cND\u201d university logo within a giant heart featuring exterior dimensions of 41-feet by 50-feet. Both display pieces appeared to be free floating in the university\u2019s Hesburgh Reflecting Pool.
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\n\"Dibond,Agio Imaging chose 3A Composites\u2019 Gatorplast graphic display board in the white color and 1-inch thickness \u2013 supplied by the Grand Rapids, Mich., branch of distributor Laird Plastics<\/a> \u2013 for direct printing display graphics with a super-wide format UV printer. The display pieces were CNC routed to shape.
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\n(Gatorplast consists of extruded polystyrene foam bonded between two high-impact polystyrene cap sheets. The polystyrene foam density and cell structure in combination with moisture-resistant styrene facers allows Gatorplast to float for extended durations.)
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\nThe heart and logo display pieces were attached with custom-milled plates and screws specially engineered by Agio Imaging\u2019s production team and fabricated with Dibond aluminum composite material by 3A Composites USA. To create the appearance of a free-floating display, Agio Imaging used black sandbags and clear nylon line to anchor the floating shapes in place without being visible in the pool. The Dibond plates were attached to the undersides of the heart and logo and screwed through Gatorplast\u2019s styrene facer and foam center onsite.
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\n\"Dibond,The floating Gatorplast display was so well received that Agio Imaging was contacted to print graphics for Notre Dame\u2019s Mother\u2019s Day event the following year. Agio Imaging also was recognized for this unique Gatorplast application in Digital Output magazine\u2019s<\/a> \u201c2016 Application of the Year Awards.\u201d
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\nIn 2016, the university\u2019s alumni association offered Notre Dame students the opportunity to write their thoughts and prayers for their mothers on colorful pastel ribbons that would be attached to a \u201cMother\u2019s Honor and Remembrance Wall\u201d\u2013 a free-standing outdoor display installed outside the university\u2019s Eck Visitors Center.
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\nThe remembrance wall \u2013 which measured 18-feet wide by 8-feet tall \u2013 consisted of 15 open box-like hinged display areas constructed by university carpenters from white-painted wood. In addition to six display areas designed to hang student ribbons, the remembrance wall also featured nine open-box areas designed to display two-sided printed graphics. The graphics were attached with architectural hardware that allowed them to swivel 360 degrees, offering the audience views of different graphics printed on reverse sides. The graphics featured a series of both text and images honoring moms.
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\n\"Dibond,\u201cThis display was designed to be interactive, hands-on and customizable,\u201d according to Logan. \u201cThe graphics panels are completely replaceable.\u201d
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\nAgio Imaging recommended 3mm Dibond in the white color for eight of the printed graphics, including seven 26.5-inch by 42-inch panels and one 71.5-inch by 9-inch header panel \u2013 all direct-printed in four-color process with a super-wide format UV printer and then CNC routed. A ninth panel featured the university\u2019s \u201cND\u201d logo in metallic gold highlighted against an eye-catching white background design on acrylic.
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\n\"Dibond,\u201cThis display needed to hold up to the weather because you never know what\u2019s going to happen here at that time of year,\u201d said Logan, of the display that was designed to be outdoors for a week this spring.
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\n\u201cWe recommended Dibond for its unsurpassed durability outdoors and its ability to be printed on both sides,\u201d said Logan. \u201cAs an added benefit, because Dibond is masked, it gave us a second clean side to print. Dibond also is extremely rigid. Some acrylics and PVC boards can bend. If there was any wind, we knew Dibond wouldn\u2019t bow or flex. Dibond printed with nice even-saturated colors. And, it cut immaculately on our CNC router. There was no flaking around the edges.\u201d
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\nphotography courtesy of Agio Imaging and The University of Notre Dame<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For many of us, there just aren\u2019t enough ways to thank and honor our mothers for their loving care and support. Students at The University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind., have been honoring moms even before the first official Mother\u2019s Day was celebrated more than a century ago – following Notre Dame alum […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"no","footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[428,168,112,96,126,420,210,426],"class_list":["post-1991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-case-histories","tag-agio-imaging","tag-aluminum","tag-aluminum-composite-material","tag-dibond","tag-gatorplast","tag-public-art","tag-signage","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/3acompositesusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/3acompositesusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/3acompositesusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3acompositesusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3acompositesusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1991"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/3acompositesusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2028,"href":"https:\/\/3acompositesusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions\/2028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/3acompositesusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3acompositesusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3acompositesusa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}