Game On's neon-filled exhibition design pays homage to 80s video games
Spanish practice Smart & Green Design has re-designed the Barbican's touring Game On exhibition for a former underground cistern in Madrid, using more than 150 LED arches to evoke the neon colours of the 1980s.
The retrospective, which is reportedly the largest international exhibition to explore the history of video games, spans more than 400 collector's objects and drawings covering the birth of the technology in the 1960s to the present day.
The LEDs are arranged into colour-coded arches
Game On's revamped set-up, which won Smart & Green Design the public vote at this year's Dezeen Awards in the exhibition design category, relied heavily on multicoloured LED tubes suspended throughout the exhibition space.
Set against an otherwise dimly lit interior, these nodded to the vector graphics of early video games such as Battle Zone, in which simple lines and curves on a black backdrop were used to create the illusion of three-dimensional spaces. LEDs were arranged into colour-coded arches and tunnels to create the impression of architectural elements, demarcating 15 distinct sections and guiding visitors through the exhibition.
"The design follows simple geometries and repetitions as some of the most famous video games did," Smart & Green Design's founder Fernando Muñoz told Dezeen.
"These lines created perspectives and the illusion of a 3D space, despite all the elements being two dimensional."
Each section was also signposted through a neon ...
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