Scale painted or applied decorative art in bold colours and typically in geometric or typographic designs, used over walls and sometimes floors and ceilings to create an illusion of expanded or altered space.
Usually brightly coloured, the idea of supergraphics is to transform a space, with usually large linear or geometric applications, flowing across multiple walls, ceilings, floors, windows and so on. They do not have boundaries or are confined, the piece takes over the space, as if it is apart of it from the beginning. These characteristics, make supergrpahics define and designate a space: "...they can either emphasise architectural elements by deliberate avoidance or they can minimise significant or challenging details by painting right over them. "
Nonetheless, the term supergraphics does not apply to every large scale graphic. For instance, a billboard is not one, as it does not transform a space, supergraphics are characterised by the personal relationship with an interior space, and are intended to have reality altering effects.
Interpreting supergraphics:
Based on the objective wayfinding developments I investigated, through process and development I was able to come up with a few final designs which I then super imposed onto walls in Leeds using Photoshop to see how they would look - following the idea that they are geometric, linear or type lead designs.
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