Silversun Theater Chandelier
Dimensional Innovations recently completed work on a custom chandelier for Caribbean Cinemas’ Silversun Theatre. Like most Caribbean Cinemas locations, Silversun featured customized interior design, including lighting, that is unique to each locale. In this case, the theater chain wanted a large, signature lighting piece to accent their space at Silversun. DI was brought in to [...]
The Whole Person
Dimensional Innovations worked with noted PR/branding firm Global Prairie to execute the corporate branding for the downtown offices of The Whole Person. A nonprofit focused on providing community-based services that empower people with disabilities to live independently, the design for the space needed to be as holistic, bright and healing as the message of the [...]
Unplugged at Science City
Working with noted engineering firm Burns & McDonnell on a new exhibit for Science City at Union Station, titled Unplugged. Winner of Burns and Mac’s Battle of Brains competition, the Unplugged exhibit was originally conceptualized by students from Olathe North High School to show visitors how energy powers the world. Brought on as a design-assist [...]
Kansas City Ballet Todd Bolender Center
Dimensional Innovations produced signage for the Todd Bolender Center for Dance and Creativity, housed in the renovated, historic Powerhouse Building at the Kansas City Union Station complex. While the project architects were turning former generator rooms into dance studios, DI’s team assisted the process by creating exterior building signage and interior wayfinding that matched the [...]
Mosaic Healthcare
When St. Joseph, Mo.,-based Heartland Health planned its expansion into the Kansas City’s fairly saturated healthcare market, they looked to Dimensional Innovations to help them create an out-of-the-box experience for their guests. DI designed, fabricated and installed features throughout multiple facilities that help to showcase Heartland Health as an innovative healthcare provider displaying holistic capacities [...]
Galeria 360 Theater
With the goal of giving this theater experience a modern, high-end and high-tech look, Dimensional Innovations designed the entrance and interior of Galeria 360 for Caribbean Cinemas to entice. The entrance’s pops of vivid orange surrounded by cool, gleaming glass pair with the nearby glowing poster surround to draw visitors in from the surrounding mall. [...]
Lyric Opera Richard J. Stern Center
Dimensional Innovations designed and fabricated the exterior signage, interior wayfinding and room identification for the Lyric Opera’s production facility and operations building, which united a new building with a renovated warehouse in Kansas City’s historic Crossroads District. From coordinating colors with the building committee, advising materials and options to maximize budget and even covering the [...]
Scheels All Sports Interactive Wall
Scheels, a large sporting goods chain that has locations throughout the upper Midwest, came to Dimensional Innovations with a challenge: their vast store lobbies were uninspiring, lacking life and excitement. DI created an interactive experience that connects Scheels customers to the outdoors. Using six 42-inch LCD touchscreen monitors that stream customized, branded content, visitors can [...]
University of Michigan Crisler Center
Combining innovative design with the latest interactive technology, Dimensional Innovations helped the University of Michigan create a fan experience unlike any other. Dynamic visual graphics, content storytelling and branded design in 20 different, customized digital interactives touchscreens make the Crisler Center arena and adjoining 55,000-square-foot Player Development Center a fan environment worth noting. One-of-a-kind motion [...]
Alamo Drafthouse Signage
Dimensional Innovations was chosen to create the exterior signage for the new Alamo Drafthouse cinema in Littleton, Colorado. The signs are purposefully designed to appear aged and fatigued. Custom finishes and paints were layered over the custom-cut metal signs to create the requested vintage feel.
Carlos O’Kellys Restaurant Branding
Looking for a brand update for both stores and the overall company look, the leaders of Carlos O’Kellys Mexican Restaurants came to Dimensional Innovations for assistance. After a thorough brand assessment, DI’s talented design team created a new store concept with bright colors and custom finishings designed to wow guests. However, the work didn’t stop [...]
Main Street Kansas City Streetscape
Often the heart of a community, the Main Street of Kansas City, Mo., was languishing, forgotten, until a branding and streetscape project for the Kansas City Main Street Corridor Development Corp. (MainCor) and city of Kansas City, Mo., sought to revitalize it. The project aimed to improve pedestrian use and connectivity, build a stronger brand [...]
Miami Marlins Park
Dimensional Innovations crafted many high-end treatments for the new Miami Marlins Park, including a mirrored tile ceiling in a luxury lounge and the brand-new Marlins logo signs. The logo signs are a feat of engineering and fabrication, using thermoformed plastic and delicate layers of paints and finishes to achieve a completely custom look. In addition, [...]
Sprint Experience Wall at the Sprint Center
An iconic entryway piece to the Kansas City Sprint Center, the Sprint Wall reinforces the company’s brand in this highly used downtown Kansas City venue. The naming rights sponsor for the arena, Sprint chose Dimensional Innovations to execute their sponsorship display by creating an iconic wall, not a traditional brand recognition sign. Instead, they wanted [...]
KU Basketball Experience at Allen Fieldhouse
Several years after completing the original Booth Hall of Fame, KU’s Athletic Department decided to integrate more interactivity to the space. Dimensional Innovations was brought on to detail and fabricate a reaction-time, vertical jump and a “be the announcer” interactive, as well as additional technology-based displays. Now, visitors can connect to KU’s website to look [...]
Royals Hall of Fame
In 2009, Kauffman Stadium underwent a massive renovation, including a $6 million Hall of Fame project for the Kansas City Royals. This space included display space for artifacts with graphic surrounds. Dimensional Innovations was engaged early in the design process to detail and execute the more challenging aspects of the job. The original scope included [...]
KC Rail Experience at Union Station
The KC Rail Experience, a permanent exhibit at Union Station Kansas City, focuses on the way Union Station and its rails helped to shape Kansas City and America. The exhibit is devoted to human stories that educate visitors how trains and rails work. Dimensional Innovations worked with the project stakeholders to design and install the [...]
YRC Wall at Sprint Arena
The YRC Global Commerce In Motion sculpture expresses a simple concept in a distinctive way: getting from point A to point B is often more complicated than it seems. Dimensional Innovations used the complexities of a Rube Goldberg apparatus to illustrate the intricacies of a global logistics company. There is a progression from left to [...]
Pittsburgh Penguins Fan Experience
Hired as the interactive and exhibit consultant for sponsorship activations in the new Consol Energy Center, Dimensional Innovations helped the Trib Total Media All Time Team Zone connect its brand not only to the Pittsburgh Penguins, but also to the Pennsylvania hockey tradition. Interactive technology allows visitors to explore the history of Pittsburgh’s greatest players [...]
Kansas City Zoo Tropics
Dimensional Innovations worked with the Kansas City Zoo to design and build an interactive and engaging experience for their new Tropics Building. DI created a fictitious character, KC Joe, to lead children and their parents through a tropical adventure where they learn about flora and fauna through the use of games and didactics. “The designs [...]
Kansas City Zoo Wayfinding
Dimensional Innovations’ design challenge for the Kansas City Zoo wayfinding package was to create additional signage that incorporated aspects of the current wayfinding and related to the architecture of the existing Deramus Building. The sign design solution ultimately involved a family of signs with varieties created from painted aluminum, vinyl, roughhewn cedar and steel base [...]
Kansas City Zoo Discovery Barn
Working with the PGAV Architects and the KC Zoo staff, Dimensional Innovations helped develop engaging activities for children that would be fun and educational on a fixed budget. The final concept provided children an opportunity to emulate the animals in the exhibits. Featuring things such as a balancing log for the lemurs, a rope climb [...]
Nebraska High School Hall of Fame
Dimensional Innovations was engaged by the Nebraska High School Sports Hall of Fame and DLR Group of Lincoln to design the exhibits telling the exciting story of the strong tradition of high school sports in the state of Nebraska. The 9,000-square-foot-space consists of zones broken down by each of the major sports. Those stories are [...]
Wrestling Hall of Fame
The National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and Manhattan Construction engaged Dimensional Innovations to do a design-build execution of the remodel of the exhibits in the current Hall of Fame and Museum. Re-crafting the exhibit layout and storyline of the space, while adding interactive storytelling into the existing framework of the exhibits and [...]
University of Kansas Medical Center
Need imagery Dimensional Innovations was engaged by H2B Architects to execute this plaque and directory signage package.
Oak Park Mall Signage
As a part of a major renovation, Dimensional Innovations was engaged by EMJ Corporation and CBL Properties to design detail and execute the large-scale interior and exterior signage project for the rebranded Oak Park Mall in Overland Park, Kansas. The project involved channel letter sets, multiple large scale monuments signs and exterior directional signs. Interior [...]
Prairie Band Casino Theming
With a casino floor that was 15 years outdated, Dimensional Innovations teamed with H2B Architects to redesign and develop a new look for Prairie Band Casino in Mayetta, Kansas. The design concept was influenced by the Native American tribe that owns and runs the casino. DI’s team developed totem poles with Native American heritage that [...]
New Meadowland Stadium Coaches Club
This unique lighting element was designed to serve as theming for the premium club, as well as to promote distinct branding moments for both the New York Giants and the New York Jets. The prefabricated light rails are pre-wired with green, blue and white LED lights, so that the theme and mood of the space [...]
BATS Crown Club at Kauffman Stadium
BATS commissioned Dimensional Innovations to design and build a branded environment to transform the high-end club at Kauffman Stadium to The BATS Crown Club. Through the use of high-end graphics and media, the BATS brand was married with the Kansas City Royals’ brand to tell the story of their partnership. The experience begins in the [...]
Specialty Lighting: Garmin
PGAV Architects contacted with Dimensional Innovations in a design assist partnership in this interesting project. The basic design intent and budget were used to develop a cost effective solution for the unique light lens. The fixture was constructed of aluminum and acrylic, and utilized lights in the ceiling to help control budget. In addition, Dimensional [...]
Park Side Plaza
Dimensional Innovations developed exterior signage for a multi-tenant development, after being brought in by American Century. The signage included parking signage, wayfinding packaging and other uniquely branded signage for five distinct tenants at this site.
KCATA Max Bus Shelters
Dimensional Innovations teamed with the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority and HNTB Architects to successfully implement a new Bus Rapid Transit system in Kansas City. DI played an integral role in detailing the construction documents to meet the unique goals of the job. Dimensional Innovations produced 20 bus shelters using StarfireTM tempered glass and stainless [...]
Lansing Mall Signs
Dimensional Innovations created the signage for this project for General Growth Properties and Huie Design. The custom designed and fabricated signs used DuraLite™, AlumiLite™, DuraPlex™ proprietary products, completed with DI’s signature, high-quality fabrication methods.
Park Hill Signage
Dimensional Innovations helped Park Hill School District showcase their commitment to sustainability through a solar-powered monument sign lit with long-lasting LED lights. The sign was equipped with a flexible thin-film solar array that mounts to the top of the sign, allowing the overall design to be non-impacted by the incorporation of the solar material. The [...]
Southwest Medical Center Wayfinding
Dimensional Innovations was contacted by Nabholz construction to develop a campus wide wayfinding system for Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, Kansas. The hospital went through a major renovation and addition and needed a graphic refresh on both their site wayfinding system and their building wayfinding system, which included room plaques, directional signage and building identification.
Blue Springs School District Signage
Hollis and Miller Architects introduced Dimensional Innovations to the Blue Springs School District. DI worked with the district in Missouri to develop their large-scale exterior signage.
Qatar Education Center Wayfinding
Dimensional Innovations was hired as the wayfinding design consultant by Treanor Architects and Burns & McDonnell to design the signage and wayfinding system for both an all-men’s and an all-women’s campus in Education City in Doha, Qatar. The project involved all messaging and content, as well as all graphic design solutions and ADA compliance, as [...]
Shield Healthcare Casework
The product of years of research and development, Shield Casework™ was developed in the Innovation Lab at DI. While researching how to reduce healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), the Innovation Lab team discovered traditional laminated casework in healthcare settings is not only a high-maintenance product, it’s also a potential method of spreading HAIs. Solid surface material has [...]
Fort Bliss Army Hospital Signage
Hoefer-Wysocki and Walton Construction commissioned Dimensional Innovations to design and build the signage for the Army Hospital in Texas. The budget was pre-determined and general materiality was set by the interior design package. The design process involved engineering the signage to complement the existing finishes while meeting the rigorous budget constraints. Dimensional Innovations has also [...]
GSA Bannister Office
BNIM Architects engaged Dimensional Innovations to detail, mock-up and build this 90-foot-long multipurpose piece of millwork. The piece acts as functional cabinetry, a space divider and as a public art piece. The unique custom lighting effects are achieved through the use of solid and hollow acrylic tubes that have been treated with a variety of [...]
Garmin Specialty Lighting and Kiosks
PGAV Architects contracted with Dimensional Innovations in a design-assist partnership in this interesting project. The basic design intent and budget were used to develop a cost-effective solution for the unique light lens. The fixture was constructed of aluminum and acrylic, and utilized lights in the ceiling to help control budget. In addition, Dimensional Innovations has [...]
American Century Signage
Dimensional Innovations has had a long-standing relationship with American Century to design and fabricate their campus-wide signage. The campus signage includes all pertinent wayfinding to navigate the multiple buildings on their Main Street campus in Kansas City. The complete package includes all interior and exterior signage, as well as digital signage and thematic branding within [...]
Aristocrat Motors Sponsorship Activation
Aristocrat Motors and AEG retained Dimensional Innovations to develop a sponsorship opportunity in the newly renovated Midland Theatre. The design solution incorporated their brand into an existing historic poster case in the lobby. Recent updates showcased Aristocrat’s connection to Mercedes-Benz Kansas City. In each manifestation, Dimensional Innovation has been responsible for original photography, as well [...]
Dean Foods Theming
Dimensional Innovations worked in collaboration with Global Prairie to provide corporate branding, ID signage, inspirational graphics, and wayfinding and signage for Dean Foods’ corporate headquarters and test kitchen in Dallas, Texas. Materials included photographic reproductions, large format graphics, acrylic, wood, and custom stainless steel finishes.
Wrestling Hall of Fame
The National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and Manhattan Construction engaged Dimensional Innovations to do a design-build execution of the remodel of the exhibits in the current Hall of Fame and Museum. Re-crafting the exhibit layout and storyline of the space, while adding interactive storytelling into the existing framework of the exhibits and [...]
Baylor Athletics Interactive Wall
Dimensional Innovations worked with Baylor Athletics to design and implement this interactive video wall. Utilizing a 2 x 2 matrix of 46″ LCD monitors and a touch interface, the interactive wall provides dramatic motion graphics, and an opportunity to explore the 9 sports available at Baylor University.
Dickinson Sparks Conceptual Design
Hired as a designer and consultant, Dimensional Innovations created the theming and branding in both interior and exterior spaces for this Nevada theatre. The design was influenced by the look of movie palaces of yesteryear, with a touch of modern details and experiences. DI created signage, graphics and design elements that accentuated the modern and [...]
Caribbean Cinemas Aruba
Caribbean Cinemas, by nature of their locale and culture, allow a certain amount of design creativity not open to all theatre chains. Dimensional Innovations responded in turn, by creating imaginative, branded spaces, ranging from underwater seascapes to historical firehouse references. Most of the ambiance comes from incorporating specialty lighting and custom auditorium portals. With each [...]
Caribbean Cinemas Ponce
The second largest city in Puerto Rico has always been known for its uniquely designed firehouse, Parque De Bombas, built in 1882, and also the famous Plaza Del Mercado, known for its beautiful architecture. The design of these amazing buildings were used as inspiration for this project, utilizing influences of the Mercado for the outside, [...]
Caribbean Cinemas Fine Arts Miramar
This project was a complete renovation of an existing theatre that sits on a busy street in San Juan, Puerto Rico. A photograph of wave action in the sand was used to route the 3D pattern into the sculpted wall. Inspired by the view of stars from the beach, DI developed the “Points of Light” [...]
ITZ Entertainment Centers
The first project Dimensional Innovations partnered on with Itz involved a fast 45-day renovation and rebranding of two Texas-based family entertainment centers. Retail space, interior theming, and exterior signage were all part of the quick solution designed to a tight budget. Recently, DI came back to help Itz incorporate bowling lanes into their centers. The [...]
Three Dog Bakery Franchise Design
Three Dog Bakery is fully devoted to the happiness of man’s best friend and offers the best, fresh-baked treats for dogs. DI was asked to create typical store layouts as well as facade, interior, signage and casework design details for this project. The design had to easily translate to numerous stores in order to maintain [...]
GSA Bolling Center Office
A high-profile project for a local office of the General Services Administration, Dimensional Innovations has worked with JE Dunn Construction and Helix Architecture on this project intermittently for more than seven years. The projects consist of fabrication and installation of high-end signage, wayfinding, ADA-compliant signage and graphics on a phase-by-phase basis. Materials include 3M graphics, [...]
Foxwoods Casino Conceptual Design
As a new facility, Foxwoods Casino in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, needed all-encompassing wayfinding package designed to make their guests’ experience all about what’s important – the gaming. Dimensional Innovations was brought in to create a comprehensive signage and wayfinding solution. Working with Ewing Cole Architecture and Foxwoods, DI designers completed the messaging schedule, wayfinding study for [...]
Dickinson Theaters IMAX
Dimensional Innovations has always believed in the power of special lighting. Because of this, DI was asked By Dickinson Theaters to design the treatment and theming for the chain’s rollout into IMAX theaters. After many mock-ups and client reviews, this project ultimately created the feeling that you are entering a premium experience, and that you [...]
Children’s Mercy Hospital Diner
Themed after a 1950s diner, Dimensional Innovations built everything from the juke box to the small scaled cars that can accommodate children in wheelchairs. All elements are designed and fabricated to withstand the constant abuse of active kids. Interactives are incorporated into the juke box, and Duracoat is used on the small cars.
Historic Film Vault
Dimensional Innovations transformed a historic bank vault into a high-end digital theatre while maintaining the integrity and history of the original space. The sconce lighting, theatre seating and acoustical wall panels are unique examples of the efforts made to enhance the movie-going experience. The original bank vault was made entirely of metal, creating acoustical obstacles. [...]
Cancer Survivors Memorial Park
In conjunction with Confluence and the R.A. Bloch Cancer Foundation, Dimensional Innovations worked to incorporate the signage and informational panels into the public art and architecture for this memorial park. The kiosks were made of Alumilite, and are built to incredible public park durability. The text is all internally illuminated, and the with text is [...]
University of Delaware’s Bob Carpenter Center
Dimensional Innovations collaborated with HNTB Architecture to do thematic branding, large format graphics and wayfinding design for the addition to the University of Delaware’s Bob Carpenter Center. The design solution included 3-D elements, interactive components, and a large deployment of super graphics in the space. The space serves the basketball and volleyball teams.
University of Missouri Athletic Training Complex
After having multiple different architects work on the Mizzou Athletics Training Complex (MATC) at the University of Missouri, the building had a very disconnected graphic look. Dimensional Innovations and Populous were originally hired to graphically unify the building, from the way trophies were displayed, to All American representation to displaying current team rosters for all [...]