Gelbach Designs Inc.

Fabrication of Museum Design – The Project

Every year our company produces the Spires (exhibit, memoir, and trophy wrapped into one… see pictures) for the NASCAR Hall of Fame museum in Charlotte, NC. They are incredible representations of the new inductees into the Hall of Fame built of metals and technology. These exhibits are created with LED screens, aluminum, stainless, chrome, LED lighting, and a great deal of know-how.

What the Exhibits Represent

It’s easiest to have this guy explain it:

Our Images

These pictures are of NASCAR sending a camera crew to film us creating the Spires, and of the finished exhibits as they were being packed to go out the door. If you need something like this for your organization or company, please do not hesitate to contact us.

We’ve just created a short slideshow showing off our recent projects and products creating TV Set Designs for Broadcast Studios. Take a look

It’s done in 720p resolution, so you can comfortably watch it full screen or at high resolution on youtube.

Here at Gelbach Designs, we recently have been doing a LOT of TV set design. So much, we created a separate site to focus on the products we provide for the broadcast industry, called TVsetdesigns.com. In fact, we’ve been doing so much broadcast set design that the posts on our main site (this one) have become somewhat sparse, in an attempt to make sure the two sites offer totally different information and current events.

So, I’m throwing this image of one of our Complete Corner Sets on this site instead. The picture features our Complete Corner Set and one of our Elliptic News Desks. The walls are made from our Straight Frames, with the surfaces being sovereign cherry and silver alu laminates, and PETG for the diffuse glass look.

The Mission

Lanxess, a giant luxury vehicle plastics and polymers manufacturer, recently tasked us with turning all four of the Hilton’s hotel ballrooms into one very large presentation of people and graphics. One end of the area was turned into a huge stage, backdrop, and projection screen of the likes usually seen only in big city sports arenas.

Looking any direction but the stage, the view was dominated by gigantic graphics, ads, and infographics pertaining to the company, their products, and activities. The grand-format fabric printed graphics continued outside the ballrooms with more informationals, along with product pedestals. The corporate event went off without a hitch, with the stage set, graphics, and event planners making it all come together in a cohesive, and rather impressive form.

Main Stage

Looking at the main picture, you’ll see that the ballroom goes on past the stage (check the ceiling corners). Our company built this stage set for the event, along with producing all structures the graphics stretched across throughout the event.

I don’t want to get too much into describing the structures we made from scratch to support the rear projection screen and set, but suffice it to say they were no joke. It was height adjustable, covered in pulleys, aircraft cable, struts, supports, and bolts to keep everything safe and solid.

The staging also was custom, which you’ll see better angles of in the other images in this post. The large, angular side walls are created out of a slightly more monstrous version of the frames you see common in our structures and other corporate events design.

The ladders, lift, and employees are also ours. Would have been great to get a fully lit, without workers kind of shot, but we just didn’t end up having the time.

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