In The News


"Digital Design provides developers planning high-rise condominiums and potential buyers with a truly unique resource to let them see actual views from the various heights."
     –New York Times

"It's storytelling in a visual way."
     –Washington Business Journal

"Developers are calling [Digital Design] to help them put together the big picture, from a bird's eye view that is. DDIS helps them understand what views are going to look like before construction."
     –Bisnow on Business

"We hit our target height, and when the [balloon] landed 18 minutes later, we were relieved beyond description to see most dizzying and impressive views from the future observation deck of the Freedom Tower."
     –Forbes

"The public will get a bird's-eye view on Sunday from atop the first building constructed at the site where the World Trade Center towers [previously] stood."
     –Boston Globe

"A critical design issue is gnawing at the builders of the Washington Nationals ballpark. Will fans in the upper deck be able to see the gleaming dome of the US Capitol about a mile away? The best way to predict what people will see from the stands is to shoot photos from a [tethered aerostat] balloon."
     –Wall Street Journal

"Architects Tuesday sent up a balloon with a dangling camera to take panoramic views of New York's skyline to attract prospective tenants. The photographs are to be used in marketing and publicity to show prospective tenants precisely what views they will see from each floor of the tower."
     –NBC / Associated Press

"Twice winner of the annual Innovative Technology Award."
     –City of Falls Church

"Falls Church's Digital Design & Imaging Service has donated the use of one of its 12-foot balloons to serve to identify the location of "Watch Night" to observers from as far away as Tysons Corner."
     –Falls Church News-Press

"Digital Design & Imaging Service, Inc. in Falls Church has worked on about 75 stealth sites in the region, including the antennas on the Commerce Department, the artificial tree on the Virginia side of Great Falls, and the Verizon house in Arlington."
     –Washington Post

"Providing aerial surveillance and wind modeling for the exercise, Digital Design & Imaging Service, Inc. rapidly deployed an aerostat downwind providing wind data and direction to emergency responders throughout the exercise."
     –Operation Gallant Fox 2006

"Digital Design's unique aerial imaging aerostat balloons are emerging as a platform for chemical / biological sensors, special operations, first responders, and local police applications."
     –Washington Breakfast Club

"Many communities feel cell phone towers are just plain ugly, so some wireless providers are becoming masters of disguise, using DDIS's imagery and simulations to camouflage and blend towers into the surrounding communities. "
     –CBS Early Show

"Digital Design's unique aerostats have the ability to gain extra lift from steady, strong winds, enabling it to often lift three to five times its static payload. The aerostats can be deployed in under three minutes."
     –Intelligence, Surveillance, & Reconnaissance

"We believe that this proposal should be considered a model for future cellular antenna installations on other prominent buildings."
     –National Building Museum

"DDIS visualizations and renderings were used in the book Landscape Modeling by Professor Steve Erwin."
     –Landscape Modeling

"Small aerostats provide inexpensive platforms for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance."
     –Jane's International Defense Review