If anyone finds himself in a blimp or hot air balloon on the week of the U.S. Open there will be some art to appreciate from the sky.

When Grant Meacci of the Hayter Firm began designing the courtyards for the U.S. Open grounds, he came upon a problem that would require a creative solution. He had too much space with nothing happening in it.

"All of a sudden you have an expanse of pavement and you need to break that up somehow," Meacci says.

Typically a landscape designer would put in an attractive piece of art, like a fountain or a sculpture. But Meacci was on a budget and needed to put in something that would only remain in the courtyard for a week and then be hauled away.

So he decided to paint an exact replica of the "Golfing Lad" logo in the center of the courtyard, right on the pavement.

He created three logos altogether. The largest one is 60 feet by 40 feet, is 400 times the size of a standard 8½-by-11 logo, used 35 gallons of base-coat white paint to cover and took several people nearly a week to finish. It sits outside the exit of the merchandise tent.

There is also a 40-foot by 30-foot logo at the entrance to the merchandise tent and an 18-foot by 15-foot logo at the main entrance. All told, Meacci purchased 65 gallons of paint to complete the project.

Meacci received a lot of help from LK Advertising who created the templates for the logos. They printed 350 sheets of 8½-by-11 paper for the large logo alone. The logo colors are also exactly as they should be.

"It’s nearly right-on," Meacci says "just 400 times larger."