Pixar Animation Studios HQ

At Pixar Animation Studios' Emeryville headquarters, OrangePiel produced a series of printed acoustic wall murals — wall-scale pieces that double as sound absorption and as a museum of the studio's own artwork. Concept paintings, storyboard sequences, and character studies pulled directly from the Pixar art department become the surface material, rendered at production scale on NRC-rated acoustic fabric.

The technical brief was a dual-purpose one: the campus needed acoustic treatment in open collaboration and review spaces without losing the creative-studio atmosphere that defines Pixar's workplace. Dye-sublimation printing onto fiberglass-core acoustic substrate kept the color fidelity of the original artwork intact while delivering the sound-absorption performance those rooms required. The murals read as wall art at conversation distance and as acoustic treatment in the environment — no visible panel seams, no generic fabric wraps, no compromise on either axis.

The result: walls across Pixar HQ that celebrate the studio's own creative heritage at full scale while making the rooms they live in demonstrably better to work in.

Large-scale commercial installations hinge on three constraints this project navigates: print fidelity at architectural scale, fire-code compliance, and schedule. OrangePiel's dye-sublimation process delivers up to 1440 DPI on panels as large as 4 × 8 feet and wall-scale murals reaching 16 × 170 feet — wide enough for most commercial elevations as a single seamless run. NFPA 701 and ASTM E84 Class A fire ratings (flame spread under 25, smoke developed under 450) meet standard commercial building codes without sprinkler-zone retrofit. Production runs 2-4 weeks from approved proof to ground shipping. For installations that combine roller shades, printed panels, and murals — as is typical in mixed hospitality, retail, and cultural environments — OrangePiel specifies the full stack from a single Richmond, Virginia facility, which keeps color match consistent across substrates that otherwise would come from separate vendors. Every product is custom manufactured to order, with rush options available for time-critical openings.