Lighting Design : Mitsubishi exhibition stand

One of the more interesting projects in Australia so far. We better come clean straight away and admit that this did not go through. As you probably know, Mitsubishi Australia is doing it tough at the moment. They were not prepared to go ahead with our proposal due to budget constraints.

The original brief from the client was to light their mobile exhibition stand in a totally different manner than is normally done :
* easy to install and disassemble; mobile stand easy to relocate
* uniform lighting with good definition of the exhibited cars
* no theatrical lighting rig hanging over the stand
* no direct floodlighting which causes glare
* no spill light to neighboring stands

Our proposal included Mirrortec(tm) secondary reflector systems mounted on 4 poles. These reflectors break up the glare from 8 powerful floodlights, and distribute the light in a clearly defined "footprint". The poles would form part of the exhibition stand without any need for additional lighting.
Mirrortec(tm) panels -- with dozens of multiple convex elements -- must be carefully computer calculated, but the effort is worthwile. Wouldn't you have loved to see this exhibition stand ?

This is what the Mitsubishi stand did look like at the Melbourne 2006 Auto Show. We invite you to judge for yourself . . . .