Almost my favorite part of the show — watching the artists build this enormous mural as people arrived down the escalator, stopped, and stared. And then giggling as the images were repeated throughout the show. This picture by Viktor van den Berg gives you just a glimpse — it was huge (15 x 60 ft?) and close scrutiny was very well rewarded.
Gordon Haff: Art at VMworld
But there’s one other thing that I have to mention. VMware hired a New York artist named Brian Rea
to handle the artwork for the show. His line drawings are omnipresent,
incredibly clever, and add a real sense of style and fun to the show.
Multi-core is a tree growing apple cores. Disembodied hands pat a
Labrador for the “Hands-On Lab” sign. And a huge blackboard has been
sporting an increasingly dense collection of pictorial jokes throughout
the week. Kudos to the artist and to VMware for looking beyond the
often oh-so-serious world of technology!
Some closeups of the banner images from Tony.
