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Design Category
Environmental graphic design, 1986
Design firm
Richard Poulin Design Group, Inc. (New York, New York)
Collection
(1996) A Decade of Sports Graphics
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Seven simple profiles – baseball players depicted in neon – become graphic icons for seven
windscreen murals that surround Shea Stadium, home of the New York Mets. Each figure measures approximately ninety by sixty feet. Color activates the sense of movement in each player's stance – the batter's swing, the fielder's stretch, the runner's gait. The murals are fabricated out of double neon tubing using two colors per windscreen. Transformers are concealed behind the windscreen panels. The U-channels that frame and house the neon are painted to mirror the illumination so that the mural's colors can be read in daylight.