For the second year in a row we have had the honor of wrapping a RV for our friends at Music Saves Lives® and Monster Energy. Music Saves Lives® is the bridge between music, entertainment and important life-saving causes. We bring a simple concept; connect the music and entertainment, we all love, to a life saving community action. MSL has focused efforts on blood donation and the bone marrow registry, reaching out by sharing facts, educating and empowering. They educate about the importance of simple life saving actions they can participate in. These simple actions, like donating blood, running a blood drive, and registering for the marrow program to save those with leukemia, all connect back to the community.
As a recognized 501(c)3 organization they have grown from their home base in Southern California to a worldwide presence. They are still young, only having started in late 2005, but their growth has reached millions of students. Their goals are simple and their action is incredibly effective. “Saving Lives Has Never Sounded So Good™!”
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It’s that time of year again to sit back and admire some of the best vehicle advertising in the industry. This year’s Sign and Digital Graphics magazine’s Auto Art Contest featured more than 500 entries of some of the most creative and interesting designs on the road. As in years past, this year’s contest was divided into five categories: Commercial Vehicles, Shop Vehicles, Trailers and Buses, Pro Racing and Street Art.
Blue took first place in the Trailers and Buses category with their Stargate trailer. As the new Stargate video game neared release, the franchise partnered with U.S. Racetronics to promote its brand with a sizable trailer wrap at nationwide races. With only a two-week deadline, there was little time to work on such a large project. To produce this project, the wrap was printed using the HP TurboJet printer and 3M Controltac IJ180Cv3 gloss vinyl, and output in only an hour and a half. With a first-class team and high-performing equipment, we finished the wrap on time and had a very happy client. And now we have an award to show for it.
We also received an honorable mention in the buses and trailers category for the Game Truck’s mobile gaming trailer.
blue continues to successfully produce dynamic creative for the Phoenix Light Rail. Utilizing the HP Scitex Turbojet 8300, blue was able to reproduce awesome images of the Arizona Diamondbacks with unparalleled clarity and precise color matching, essential for the FOX Sports Arizona campaign.
“With the biggest and best two month span in our Arizona Diamondbacks 2010 telecast schedule coming up in June and July, we were looking to promote FOX Sports Arizona and FOXSportsArizona.com in an outdoor medium that would be seen by many people throughout the Valley” Brett Hansen, FOX Sports Arizona’s Director of Communications/Marketing told our design staff.
We knew that good enough was not going to be enough for this campaign. The end result was a wrapped train that captured the excitement and electricity of the Diamondbacks and FOX Sports Arizona.
The client agreed.
“As always, bluemedia was the perfect company to deal with to help accomplish our goals”, echoed Hansen. “Working with bluemedia is a great experience. The personal attention they give – along with their creativity and professionalism – is why I choose to do business with bluemedia”.
bluemedia was commissioned to design, print and install a 20′ table graphic in support of a very important meeting for our client Aramark. Everyone in their corporate office was extremely impressed with the quality and design of the finished product. Congrats to the blue team for another successful project in the books.
WrestleMania XXVI was the twenty-sixth annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), which took place on March 28, 2010 at the University of Phoenix Stadium in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale, Arizona. The event was the first WrestleMania to be held in the state of Arizona and the third to be held in an open-air venue.
WrestleMania XXVI was a joint-promotion event, featuring performers both from the Raw and SmackDown brands. Ten matches were featured on the event’s card, which featured a supercard, a scheduling of more than one main bout. The first of these matches was a no disqualification, no count-out match that featured The Undertaker defeating Shawn Michaels to improve his undefeated WrestleMania streak to 18-0. Per the pre-match stipulation, Michaels was forced to retire. The second was a singles match for the WWE Championship that saw John Cena defeat the champion, Batista to win the championship. The third was a singles match for the World Heavyweight Championship featured the champion, Chris Jericho, defeating Edge to retain the title. Featured matches on the undercard included a 10-Diva tag team match, Bret Hart versus Vince McMahon in a No Holds Barred match, Rey Mysterio versus CM Punk, Triple H versus Sheamus, the sixth annual Money in the Bank ladder match, Randy Orton versus Ted DiBiase versus Cody Rhodes in a Triple Threat match and a Unified WWE Tag Team Championship match between the champion team, The Big Show and The Miz, against the team of John Morrison and R-Truth.
Tickets for the event commenced sale to the public on November 7, 2009. With an attendance of 72,219, the event grossed US$5.8 million in ticket sales, making the event the highest grossing and attended entertainment event held at the University of Phoenix Stadium, and the third highest grossing event in WWE history after WrestleMania XXV and XXIV.
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JTGrey and Head First Designs came to bluemedia with the design and need it printed and installed for the 24th Annual MasterCraft Safety Tecate SCORE San Felipe 250 in Mexico. This project was high profile and a huge rush but the crew jumped at the chance and knocked it out perfectly, having to make some adjustments on the fly and finished the install just days before the Cancer Treatment Centers of America Lexus LX 570 was scheduled to leave for the race.
The Team scored first in class and continues to dominate the series, now looking better than ever. Thank you from all of us at bluemedia and best of luck with your continued success!!
The ThermoCabinet™ is an innovative high-density colocation cabinet that provides power capacity up to 2,500 watts per square foot. The sealed cabinet design optimizes thermal management and provides an additional layer of physical protection.
According to the company’s president and founder Anthony Wanger, “the ThermoCabinet was designed to increase server and power capacity while reducing both the physical and carbon footprint.”“We listened to our customers and developed a solution that would address their economic and environmental concerns – the ThermoCabinet is the Swiss army knife for colocation.”
PHOENIX, Jan. 26, 2009 – The NBA unveiled the first-ever wrapped METRO light rail trains today during an event at the METRO Operations and Maintenance Facility in Phoenix. A special NBA All-Star-themed design, highlighting the images of six 2009 NBA All-Stars and printed on HP digital printing technology with 3M Control-tac Material, will be featured on two trains from the new mass transit system beginning today and lasting through Monday, Feb. 16.
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The METRO light rail train was unveiled by Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, members of the Phoenix City Council, NBA Senior Vice President of Events and Attractions Gail Hunter, Phoenix Suns President & COO Rick Welts, and the Phoenix Suns Gorilla, the team mascot.
The wrappedMETRO light rail trains feature an NBA All-Star 2009 thematic, which includes the All-Star Game logo and images of 2009 All-Stars Kobe Bryant of the L.A. Lakers, Yao Ming of the Houston Rockets, LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavilers, Kevin Garnett of the Boston Celtics, Dwight Howard of the Orlando Magic and Amar’e Stoudemire of the hometown Phoenix Suns. Four separate light rail vehicles, paired into two-car trains, feature the special NBA All-Star design.
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Recognizing the economic and community benefits associated with NBA All-Star 2009, the METRO Board of Directors, which currently has a “no advertising” policy, voted to allow the NBA to wrapMETRO light rail trains as a pilot project.
The NBA utilized digital printing technology from HP to produce the first-ever branding for the METRO. The NBA and HP’s wide-ranging marketing partnership will also include utilization of HP’s printing services throughout the NBA All-Star 2009 footprint, including at the US Airways Center, at NBA All-Star Jam Session presented by adidas, and in downtown Phoenix. The league selected bluemedia, a leading provider of large format design and printing for use in vehicle, large format and environmental graphic applications, to produce the wrapping, which was printed on an HP Scitex TJ8300 printer using 3M Control-tac.
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“Light Rail and the NBA All-Star Game are two extraordinary feathers in our City’s cap,” said Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon. “This is where they come together for the very first time. They’ll meet again, of course, as thousands ride the METRO to all the All-Star events.”
“Phoenix has been a wonderful host city and this is another example of how it is working to spread the excitement of NBA All-Star in innovative ways,” said Gail Hunter, Senior Vice President, Events and Attractions
National Basketball Association. “METRO light rail is an exciting addition to the Valley of the Sun and we are thrilled to take part in this unique promotion to build anticipation for the league’s marquee event.”
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“NBA All-Star 2009 will put on display to a global audience why Phoenix is such a great place to live and to do business. The NBA does a terrific job branding their marquee event and the addition of the wrappedMETRO light rail is just another example of that,” said Rick Welts, President & COO, Phoenix Suns.
NBA All-Star 2009 in Phoenix will bring together some of the most talented and passionate players in the league’s history for a global celebration of the game. Among the many events that will reach fans in more than 200 countries in more than 40 languages are the T-Mobile Rookie Challenge & Youth Jam, Sprite Slam Dunk Contest, Foot Locker Three-Point Shootout, PlayStation Skills Challenge, Haier Shooting Stars, McDonald’s NBA All-Star Celebrity Game, NBA All-Star Jam Session presented by adidas, and the 58th NBA All-Star Game, played on Sunday, Feb. 15 at the US Airways Center and broadcast on TNT for the 24th year. This will be the third NBA All-Star in Phoenix. The city also hosted the event in 1975 and 1995.
Congratulations to the bluemedia team for completing the first ever wrapped Metro Light Rail for the 2009 NBA All-Star Game! This was a truely amazing project for the dedicated staff at bluemedia to be a part of. We look forward to more attention grabbing projects with the NBA and HP.
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