Anniversary Projection Mapping for Company and University Milestones

Twenty-five years, fifty years, a hundred. A milestone is a chance to show people how far an organization has come, and the best place to tell that story is often the building where it all happened. Projection puts the founding photos, first products and faces from every decade onto the walls, at the scale the story deserves.

We design and build anniversary shows for companies, universities and institutions, from the archive research to the projectors on the night. If a milestone is coming up, tell us about the occasion and the space.

A milestone story usually lives in boxes: photos, documents, old film and logos that changed over the years. Our team develops a visual script that sequences the projection content, from animations and archival footage to generative graphics, so those pieces become one story with a beginning, a middle and a future.

The other half is the room. Visuals can shift from a soft pattern during dinner to a high-energy light show for dancing, so the same walls serve the speeches, the meal and the party. Our projection mapping process involves surveying and scanning the venue's architecture so every beam, column or curve lines up with the visuals.

• Archive into story. We turn photos, film and documents into a sequenced show, with original motion graphics to carry the parts the archive does not cover.
• Your brand, in motion. A company's logo can be projected as a dynamic 3D sculpture, or the whole room can become a branded environment.
• People in the spotlight. A guest's name can appear on a wall as they arrive, and a founder's or retiring leader's career milestones can animate across the room.
• Venue mapping. We survey and scan the building or ballroom before content is built, so the animation sits on the architecture.
• On-site show control. Our team stays on-site throughout the event to manage the show, from the first toast to the last dance.
• Practical checks. The venue's electrical capacity should be confirmed before the event. We also plan power, data connections and rigging around the space.

Building shows suit a campus or headquarters with a well-known facade. The history plays on the place where it happened, and the show can repeat through the evening for staff, alumni and neighbors.

Gala rooms keep the story close. Walls and ceilings change from chapter to chapter while guests sit at their tables, with a reveal timed to the speech that matters most.

Domes surround the audience. At one 50th anniversary celebration, our dome projection system showed childhood photos on the dome's horizon, transitioned to a map of the couple's travels and finished with a live feed of the dance floor. The same storytelling format could be adapted for an organization, moving through its history, milestones and future.

City anniversaries have their own civic events page, graduations and homecoming sit on our graduations page, and remembrance events belong on our memorials page.

• Texas Tech 100th anniversary: For the university's centennial in February 2023, we turned the Texas Tech Administration Building into a canvas. Seven 4K Barco projectors mounted on custom truss structures ran a five-minute show that combined the university's archival media with original motion graphics and animations. The result was an immersive journey through the institution's legacy.
• 50th anniversary dome: At a private 50th anniversary celebration, our dome projection system carried guests from childhood photos to a map of the couple's travels and then to a live view of the dance floor. It is an example of how personal history can become part of the environment rather than just a slideshow.

Tell us the milestone, the date, the venue and the story you want guests to leave with. We will come back with a script, a content plan and the setup we would use. For the wider range of surfaces we map, see our projection mapping services, or contact our team to start.