National Geographic Video Wall Encapsulates ‘Everything That’s Beautiful’

One existing format offered a possible shape for the National Geographic Museum’s video wall. The society’s flag, whose three stripes represent earth, sky and sea, which would lend itself to a video wall that could portray some of that vast content. But the idea of a typically rectangular flag shape seemed too static to the design team. “We’re presenting nature, which never really happens in a square box. So it’s about having the ability to present it in these more organic shapes,” says exhibit co-designer Thomas Oelberger.