Columbus Wears Blue: The Blue Jackets Remix Experience
For TENFOLD (TENSPACE), we tattooed Columbus for the Blue Jackets: wheatpaste grids on the walls, blue stencils underfoot, snipes on the poles. The whole job turned around in 24 hours.
The designs as they went up, at their printed ratio
The run
How it happened, phase by phase.
The numbers
24 hr
Turnaround on the whole job / Crew report
3
Formats on the street / Crew report
3
Waves in the rollout / Crew report
271 photos, Oct 28 to 29
Crew photo album / Photo data
Phase 01
The brief
TENFOLD (TENSPACE) brought us the Columbus Blue Jackets Remix Experience. We put it on the street in three formats: wheatpaste posters on the walls, sidewalk stencils sprayed in blue on the concrete and snipes on the poles. The rollout runs in three waves.
Stinger shoot / N High St, Short North
Phase 02
The creative
Four designs ran: "Jackets Blue Looks Good On You Columbus", "614 Brings the Boom", a Blue Jackets pattern sheet and the Remix Experience info poster.
On the walls we pasted the posters side by side in grids, so the designs alternate across the whole wall. Underfoot, the stencils spell CBJ RMX in blue.
Wheatpaste grid / S Monroe Ave, Olde Towne East
Phase 03
Wave 1: downtown and out from it
Wave 1 went up in downtown Columbus, where most of the poster locations are: grids, a stencil and a snipe on E Rich St, snipes along E Main St.
Our photos follow the run out from there. Grids and snipes climb N High St through the Short North to the University District. Olde Towne East got grids and stencils, Cleveland Ave in Milo-Grogan got grids, and the run reaches Easton and Tremont Rd in Upper Arlington.
Sidewalk stencil / E Rich St, Downtown
Phase 04
Stinger on N High St
Stinger, the Blue Jackets mascot, came out for a content shoot at 1112 N High St, in front of one of the Wave 1 grids. The client's content team captured it too. Dublin and Westerville come next, and Stinger comes along for both.
Pole snipe / N High St, Short North
Phase 05
Photo proof
Our crew's photos below are dated October 28 and 29. Each caption names the street or neighborhood from the photo's pin on the placement map; frames without a pin just say Columbus. A few stencils read soft in the photos because of the lighting and the camera angle. Open the map for the full spread.