Making of the DJ Lounge @ Circa

Ive been working on a mural for Circa nightclub
www.circatoronto.com

I havent really been able to show the club now because of a confidentiality clause, but the club opens tonight, so its finally OK for me to leak these images.


The area I've been working on is called the "DJ Lounge"
this is what it looked like when I got there:





basically the space is 4 sets of couches, with one set, located directly behind the dj booth, for whichever world famous dj and his entourage to chill all VIP styles.

I started by painting the 80 feet of walls with a two tone blue, to dark blue fade, and began applying tags in a line across the entire space. the art director was looking for that feeling of seeing tags on the freeway as you whip past them



eventually the tags got built up to create a kind of abstract texture





All in all, I spent about 4 full days tagging this wall, with markers, spray paint, and brushes.

This is how the walls are looking right now with the blacklights installed



next week, i will be adding a die cut vinyl layer overtop the white tag/texture...
this is a closeup of the test vinyl, applied to clear plexiglass (shown against a wall so you can see it)



this is the full vinyl design, which when printed will be about 9 feet long by 2 feet high



and finally a photoshopped rendering of how the vinyl will look when applied to the tag texture


(Note the light blue undershadow..this will be printed in white, so it picks up the light from the blacklights behind the couches)

There will eventually be glass walls dividing the set of three couches outside the vip booth, and they will also have the vinyl design, etched into the glass...

Circa will be the largest club in North America when it opens and is another project by club guru Peter Gatien (Limelight, Tunnel, Palladium) the 53,000 sq. ft, four-four complex is really eight clubs in one and will also be outfitted with a full apartment and recording studio.