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Thomas Sabo Love Fabric Face Light Boxes

Thomas Sabo, renowned for its high-quality and special design silver jewellery, chose W&Co's fabric face light boxes (http://www.w-co.co.uk/fabric-face-light-boxes.php) for their new retail store at Meadow Hall Shopping Centre in Sheffield. Driven by continuing success Thomas Sabo decided to set up its own retail outlets during the late 90's. In rapid succession, exclusive stores, shops-in-shops and sales agencies were established in many countries throughout Europe, Asia and America.

Before calling upon the expertise of W&Co, Thomas Sabo had installed large format light boxes with acrylic panels that bowed and flexed under the weight of the acrylic causing the backlit printed graphic to ripple and look untidy – we advised that the fabric face graphics would eliminate these problems with the added advantage of a completely frameless display that can be produced in one piece to much larger sizes than traditional acrylic faced light boxes.
The other major benefit is that the fabric face light box allows the print to be easily changed from the front using the specially designed rubber edging so that store staff can update the graphics themselves in a matter of seconds with no need for any specialist tools or installation teams.

At Meadowhall a 2m x 1m frameless light box was fully recessed in-between jewellery display cabinets to give a clean design finish with full focus on the colourful fabric printed graphic. Thomas Sabo who pride themselves on attention to detail, quality and keeping up with design trends are looking to continue using the fabric face light box system and Manchester's Trafford Centre store is next in line.

Georg Jensen model fabric face Light Boxes

W&Co’s high quality fabric face frameless light boxes (http://www.w-co.co.uk/fabric-face-light-boxes.php) were approved by Georg Jensen, the Scandinavian luxury lifestyle brand, for use within their retail stores selling the finest jewellery, silver, watches and home décor. Quality is clearly an important factor for this high end, long established brand and these light boxes met their very high standards.

The fabric face light boxes have been exported by W&Co internationally to Georg Jensen stores including Hong Kong, Australia and Denmark, with the most recent light boxes being fitted into their Flagship store on London’s Bond Street.

The illuminated displays have been supplied to make sure that Georg Jensen’s graphics make the biggest impact possible. They are produced in large format sizes from 1800 x 1200mm (6 sheet) up to 3500mm x 2500mm with the aluminium profiles powder coated grey to fit in with their shop colour scheme. Non-illuminated fabric face displays have also been supplied to compliment the light boxes in the Hong Kong stores.

The frameless light box design ensures that the focus is on the graphic and Georg Jensen have utilised this to show close up photos of jewellery printed onto the backlit fabric using a high resolution dye-sublimation process. The latest graphics are from a photo shoot in New York by fashion photographer, Sebastian Faena, as part of Georg Jensen’s new global campaign featuring Danish supermodel, Freja Beha Erichsen.

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E4 Udderbelly Magners Pasture Flex Face Light box sign

A large Flex Face Light Box (http://www.w-co.co.uk/flex-face-light-box.php) was produced for E4 to promote the ‘Magners Pasture’ at the E4 Udderbelly entertainment destination in London. The E4 Udderbelly is a unique venue in the form of a giant upside-down purple cow! Music, theatre, circus and comedy events are being hosted in the Udderbelly throughout the summer outside the Southbank Centre.


The cow shaped ‘tent’ is accompanied by the ‘Magners Pasture’ an outdoor dining and drinking area with giant Connect 4 and outdoor LCD screens showing Wimbledon and World Cup football. The Flex Face Light box is displayed at the entrance of the Magners Pasture directly on the Southbank and when illuminated it can be seen from the opposite bank of the River Thames!

W&Co managed to turn this project around extremely quickly due to the short lead-time and the client was extremely happy with the result. Flex Face light boxes are ideal for these type of large format outdoor illuminated signs and the backlit PVC banner material ensures durability for outdoor applications.

For more information on Flex Face light boxes please follow this link: http://www.w-co.co.uk/flexiface_light_box.php. Or for more details on a range of other light box solutions please check out this page: http://www.w-co.co.uk/light_boxes.php

Razor Light Boxes Premiere at the IMAX

Razor ultra slim LED light boxes (http://www.w-co.co.uk/razor-led-light-box.php) were supplied in large 6-sheet and 30” x 40” sizes to the prestigious BFI IMAX cinema at London Waterloo with the UK's biggest cinema screen. Due to the high quality, slim line nature and high brightness of the Razor light box, it was seen as the perfect solution to advertise the biggest upcoming 3D movies on the most sophisticated motion-picture projection system in the world. Along with the Razor LED light boxes W&Co also supplied custom RGB colour changing LED Light Walls (http://www.w-co.co.uk/led-feature-wall.php) complete with toughened glass fronts for the IMAX`s brand new custom made ticket counter. Each RGB light wall came complete with its own DMX controller which allows easy control over what colours and sequence of colours the user wants to display.
The BFI (British Film Institute) were really blown away with the illuminated displays and commented, “The BFI IMAX cinema in Waterloo is one of the highest grossing IMAX cinemas in the World and as part of a refurbishment project we installed W&Co light boxes to advertise our current and future presentations. Being one of the most technologically advanced cinemas in Europe we wanted to present this image to our customers in everything we do and W&Co LED light boxes provide a modern and energy efficient solution. Maintenance requirement is minuscule compared with old florescent tube light boxes and the running costs are substantially less, by our calculation they should pay for themselves in 24 months just with the energy savings.”

Light Walls Without Limits

LED Light Walls were seen as the perfect solution by a firm of Chartered Surveyors who had been requested to ‘fast track’ an interior lighting feature wall within the Royal Navy Collingwood Club at HMS Collingwood in Hampshire; an establishment which was formed in 1940 as an entry camp for new recruits.

The surveyors supplied us with drawings for the proposal of two large format curved graphic screens which they were interested in illuminating using the innovative edge-lit LED light panel technology. From their drawings we put together a proposal for the client for the full construction of the illuminated walls to be manufactured from an MDF and plywood framework, clad in Royal Navy blue ACM material, complete with a series of high bright LED light wall panels to illuminate their graphics.

After a few modifications the proposal was approved. Both curved LED light walls were manufactured in manageable sections before being fully assembled and installed on site. The final results were amazing, as you can see from the photo above. The Royal Navy was extremely impressed with the finished illuminated display and very pleased at the speed at which the project was turned around.