Overview:
MetLife Stadium, one of the NFL’s premier stadiums, serves as the home field for two teams—the New York Giants and the New York Jets. Each week, the stadium hosts fans from both teams, creating a unique challenge in adapting the stadium’s branding in order to reflect the distinct identities of each franchise.
Challenges:
The stadium’s lighting fixtures are integral to creating a vibrant, team-focused atmosphere, especially at night when exterior lighting plays a crucial role in setting the tone for the game. However, swapping out standard fixtures for RGB LEDs was impractical and costly.
Solution by FX Lighting:
Special FX Lighting engineered a custom filter holder specifically for MetLife Stadium’s existing lighting fixtures. This holder was designed to securely mount onto the top of each light, allowing for quick, simple color changes. These custom filter holders are also powder coated to color-match the existing lighting fixture, making it appear like a seamless unit. Special FX Lighting developed a set of high-quality, removable glass lighting filters—one in blue and one in green for each lighting fixture. Each lens was encased in a metal frame for long-life use, and coated using our proprietary formulas, ensuring vibrant color and color consistency for each game.
The custom filter holder design allows the stadium’s lighting team to easily swap out the glass lenses each week without removing or adjusting the entire fixture. This streamlined solution simplified the game-day preparation process, and ensured that MetLife Stadium’s lighting could transition between team colors smoothly and efficiently.
Results:
Enhanced Game-Day Experience:
MetLife Stadium’s outdoor lighting now reflects each team’s colors, amplifying the excitement for fans and adding to the visual impact on game days.
Efficiency & Cost Savings:
The custom filter holders enable quick and simple lens swaps, saving both time and resources each week.
Durability & Quality:
The glass lenses were designed for long-term use, providing consistent and vibrant color without degradation over time. We first provided glass lighting filters in 2013, and most of them are still used today.
Conclusion:
Special FX Lighting’s solution for MetLife Stadium demonstrates the power of custom lighting design to meet specific, dynamic needs. Through a carefully engineered filter holder and high-quality glass lighting filter, MetLife Stadium now offers a seamless, adaptable lighting system that showcases the distinct identities of both the New York Giants and the New York Jets. This project exemplifies how custom lighting solutions can bring brand identity to life.