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Tampa Bay Lightning

Tampa Bay Lighting murals further team’s presence

Client

Tampa Bay Lightning

What

Mural and Mixed Media

Location

Various locations

Capturing Moments & Place

This mural is a love letter to the Lightning and the city that rallies behind them. A black-and-white collage of historic moments, printed posters, and textures—each hand-painted with electric pops of Lightning blue. Framed by five individual windows, each letter of BOLTS holds its own story, creating a dynamic rhythm across the wall that feels right at home in Ybor’s gritty, historic charm.

2025

Goal!!!

We captured the moment of excitement & energy when the puck victoriously enters the net. The mural wraps around the viewer enveloping them with the rush of that winning goal!

2023

Continuing Momentum

These murals capture the electric energy in Tampa Bay following the Lightning’s back to back Stanley Cup wins.

2022

It is time to lift up the cup! 

2020 was a polarizing year.  New obstacles arrived each passing month. We were forced to look internally, to rethink every aspect of our lives. A stark year that uprooted norms but sparked a opportunity for reinvention. What started as bleak ended with a championship. Adjustments were made, inner strength was found and victory was obtained. It is  time to recognize the struggle. It is time to acknowledge the raw fight. It is time to lift up the cup!

2020

Electric energy conveyed in two dimensions

For this work, we created imagery that would convey movement and make observers feel as though it is vibrating with energy. We used elements like stacked text and visual representations of static to evoke the proximity of the energy when lightning strikes. 

2019

 

Intense elements tie imagery to reality

Yellow tones accent the cool team colors and act as a foil to bring the “GO BOLTS” mantra to life. Bold imagery contrasts with textural elements of hockey goal nets and ice, while storm clouds and real lightening imagery marry the intensity of the rink with the intensity of an afternoon storm in lightning alley.

These elements unite to celebrate the Tampa Bay Lightning and the intense flash we often experience following the rumble of thunder.

Electrical force disrupts frame

Our concept behind this mural was to show the force of electricity as a storm rolls into Tampa Bay. That energy is invisible but will disrupt your TV and make it “glitch,” and that is the moment we wanted to capture. To reinforce the concept, we created the background illustration of a storm over the Tampa skyline to look like the picture on an old black and white monitor. Hints of color create separations that complete the disrupted image.

2018