Big Image UK

Big Image UK Big Image is the world's most talented digital printing shop. We built the world's largest printer to print fabulous grand-format images

Big Image pioneered the grand format printing genre 30 years ago. We have a stable of 14 large-format printers for fabric and built two 12-metre printers capable of printing 12m x 50m seamlessly. We can print and fabricate anything you imagine. Contact Andy Brooks here or on 07990 451519 for enquires.

For the Scandinavian premiere of Waitress at Copenhagen's The New Theater in spring 2021 Big Image UK printed 14-metre b...
01/09/2021

For the Scandinavian premiere of Waitress at Copenhagen's The New Theater in spring 2021 Big Image UK printed 14-metre by 8-metre seamless clouds and sky backdrops as well as Jenna's homey wallpaper -- all on cotton Horizon cloth. The show premiered on Broadway in 2016 and in London's West End 2019; its spirited songs are written by Grammy-winning Sara Bareilles.

Staging: Lisa Kent
Scenography Terry Parsons
Lighting design: Jason Taylor
Production Manager: Anders Digmann
Photographer: Miklos Szabo

The West Australian Ballet’s Dracula premiered three years ago and was so popular it came back to stage September 2020. ...
31/08/2021

The West Australian Ballet’s Dracula premiered three years ago and was so popular it came back to stage September 2020. Big Image UK worked with set designer Phil R Daniels to print scenery and backdrops on seamless cotton cloth Horizon and sharkstooth gauze. The neo-classical ballet, choreographed by Polish Krzysztof Pastor and based on Bram Stoker’s famous novel was performed live at His Majesty’s Theatre with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra.

Dracula West Australian Ballet.
Choreography: Krzysztof Pastor
Sets & Costumes: Phil R Daniels & Charles Cusick Smith
Lighting: Jon Buswellll
Music: Wojciech Kilar Libretto: Pavel Chynowski
Arranger: Michael Brett
Conductor: Judith Yan
Photo Phil R Daniels

Dracula was nominated for Best Ballet at the Helpmann Awards in 2019, and won Best New Work, Best Costume Design and Best Arrangement 2018 in the Performing Arts West Australia Awards.

August Bournonville's La Syphide is one of the world's oldest surviving ballets and is a significant Danish cultural tra...
12/05/2021

August Bournonville's La Syphide is one of the world's oldest surviving ballets and is a significant Danish cultural tradition. Working with the Royal Danish Theatre, Big Image UK produced 39 unique cloths on our cotton horizon, muslin, and gauze materials for the landmark Royal Danish Ballet 2020 production in Copenhagen.

The intricate vision and design by Anja Vang Kragh and Mia Stensgaard draws the audience into the Sylph's mystical woodland knoll while reminding us that what we see first isn't always what turns out to be the truth.

Choreographer: Nikolaj Hübbe
Music: H. S. Løvenskjold
Set- and Costume Design: Anja Vang Kragh
Set- and Costume Design: Mia Stensgaard
Lighting Design: Åsa Frankenberg
Conductor: David Levi

Die Fledermaus or The Bat by Johann Strauss is known for its eight-minute overture, farcical funny plot and as a success...
15/04/2021

Die Fledermaus or The Bat by Johann Strauss is known for its eight-minute overture, farcical funny plot and as a success commencing Strauss's career writing operettas for 25 years after its debut.

For the Landestheater Niederbayern production in Autumn 2020 Upstage Design's scenography features cotton gauze brick backgrounds, plus legs and backdrops on cotton cloth Horizon printed by Big Image UK

The wonderfully fun production can be viewed here in entirety: https://vimeo.com/496000005

Scenography:
Charles Cusick Smith
Philip Ronald Daniels

Director
Stefan Tilch

A concept imagining the digital device as a tourist telescope required a super precise image to execute effectively. Her...
01/09/2020

A concept imagining the digital device as a tourist telescope required a super precise image to execute effectively. Here’s where Big Image UK came in: We made the aluminium LED- illuminated frame boxes and seamless prints for this campaign, appearing overnight for the launch of the new Galaxy by Samsung. The high-profile locations were Oxford Street and Westfield mall, Stratford. For Commissionedbyyou.com . The prints are on Samba for backlighting, aluminium extrusion frames 6m x 3.75m & 3.5m x 3.5m.

The Northern Ballet’s ‘Geisha’ has just opened at the Leeds Grand Theatre. Designed by Christopher Oram, with music by A...
16/03/2020

The Northern Ballet’s ‘Geisha’ has just opened at the Leeds Grand Theatre. Designed by Christopher Oram, with music by Alexandra Harwood, Geisha unravels a remarkable tale based on true events.

For this production, we printed a 13m x 7.5m front cloth on 100% cotton Horizon Cloth. This black and white image of a Geisha beautifully hangs on stage before and after the production. We also printed a double-sided, 8.5m x 6m drop of illustrated flowers on our cotton cloth. We’re delighted to see these prints help bring this vivid tale to life.

Geisha is at Leeds Grand Theatre until 21 March. Then touring until 16 May.

Designer: Christopher Oram
Choreographer: Kenneth Tindall
Photo 2&3: Emma Kauldher

This year’s Big Magazine Yearbook is finally here! For details on how we printed some of our projects from last year, ta...
10/03/2020

This year’s Big Magazine Yearbook is finally here! For details on how we printed some of our projects from last year, take a look inside - it’s filled with complex and innovative designs, from museum lightboxes, to printed carpet and backdrops for stage design, to art exhibition and the circus. All of our projects are bespoke and tailored to the clients needs, making each one unique. Every year, we are inspired and motivated by the designers we work with and the way they push the boundaries on the technology we’ve developed.

We send a free copy of the magazine with any samples we send out. If you have a project in mind, please get in touch. We’re happy to discuss all our materials and the best way to achieve any upcoming projects.

Click here to read online: https://www.bigimagesystems.com/now-can-finally-present-years-big-magazine-yearbook/?fbclid=IwAR1xQ4SzNk3faFgdMt83Ty_-4BArlwHDkRCpA3j7EmJVRsXGfAq-8uHQe9Y

Here’s a look back at the Latvian National Opera and Ballet's production of Johann Strauss' "At the Blue Danube" in 2017...
05/03/2020

Here’s a look back at the Latvian National Opera and Ballet's production of Johann Strauss' "At the Blue Danube" in 2017. An der schönen blauen Donau was first performed in Riga in 1957; in the 60+ years since, it has been revived numerous times and has become one of the cornerstones for Latvian Ballet.

For this majestic production we printed a breathtaking 18 metre by 11.5 metre seamless backdrop, on cotton Horizon cloth. The image of a hazy and ethereal mountain vista backdropped the romantic story about the choice between love and the stage, dreams and reality.

Set & Costume Designer: Ināra Gauja
Photos: Paula Zarina

Druid presents Tom Murphy’s version of Chekhov’s play, ‘The Cherry Orchard’ which opened last week in Black Box Theatre,...
02/03/2020

Druid presents Tom Murphy’s version of Chekhov’s play, ‘The Cherry Orchard’ which opened last week in Black Box Theatre, Galway. Directed by Garry Hynes, the play is about land ownership, legacy, and the struggle between tradition and change centred around a Matriarch and a big house.

Designed by Francis O’Connor, we printed a 9.5m x 3.6m on 100% cotton Horizon cloth which is hung behind the structure of the stately home the play is set in. Seen through the high double doors centre-stage, this print is double-sided; one side is a painterly blue vista, while the back side has subtle motifs of houses and electric wires only seen when backlit.

Congratulations to all the cast and crew. The Cherry Orchard is on Black Boxes stage until 7 March and then it is moving to Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Dublin from 8-11 April.

Director: Garry Hynes
Designer: Francis O’Connor
Lighting Designer: James F. Ingalls
Production Manager: Barry O'Brien

28/02/2020

A peek into our workshop in Potsdam where you can see an 18m x 7m seamless print on gauze in production on one of our Infinitus printers. This was made for the Irish National Opera’s production of La Cenerentola.

Infinitus printers are the only ones in the world capable of digitally producing grand format prints on soft materials up to 600 square metres in size (12×50 metres) seamlessly. They use water-based, biodegradable inks that achieve ultra-rich colours from dark blacks to bright whites and can also print on one or both sides of cotton fabric. To get an idea of the in-depth printing process and detail it is capable of, it takes approximately 8 hours to produce a 12m x 6m seamless print.

Maps maps maps - sometimes the projects we work on involve printing large scale, seamless maps to backdrop a theatrical ...
20/02/2020

Maps maps maps - sometimes the projects we work on involve printing large scale, seamless maps to backdrop a theatrical production. As our projects are bespoke, tailored to the desigeners needs, these range in size and detail. Here are three productions that include a map in the design, that we've printed:

Dracula, Western Australian Ballet.
Designer: Upstage Designs, Phil R. Daniels
We printed a 15m x 8m seamless map of London on 100% cotton Horizon.

My Fair Lady, Teatro San Carlo.
Designer: Gary McCann
We printed a 18m x 10m seamless map of London on 100% cotton gauze. The vertical lines are included in the design as folds in the map. Every street name is legible.

The Lovely Bones, Royal & Derngate.
Designer: Ana Inés Jabares-Pita
We printed a 3m x 2m map (reversed) of the United States on 100% cotton Horizon. For this unique stage set, a mirror hangs over the stage reflecting what happens on stage from above. Here you can see two actors sitting on the printed map.

Here’s a look at the set of ‘Echo’s End’, we printed for the Salisbury Playhouse in 2017. This production tells the stor...
13/02/2020

Here’s a look at the set of ‘Echo’s End’, we printed for the Salisbury Playhouse in 2017. This production tells the story of a young couple in 1915 Wiltshire who find themselves caught up in the turmoil of troubled times. Written by Barney Norris, and directed by Alice Hamilton, the entire play is set outside on the Salisbury Plain.

One of the main goals for Lighting designer Howard Hudson and set designer Tom Rogers was to achieve a sense of natural light to evoke the epic undulating scale of that area at different times of day. We printed a 14-metre-wide cloud drop on 100% cotton Horizon cloth, which allowed the designers to create a wide variety of different looks for the eight scenes, ranging from dull, overcast grey days, to strong, deeply saturated sunsets. This varied backdrop was also useful for the transitions between scenes as it allowed for the actors to be silhouetted against, when the lighting was adjusted.

Writer: Barney Norris
Lighting Designer: Howard Hudson
Set Designer: Tom Rogers
Director: Alice Hamilton
Photos: Helen Murray

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