The spectacular float of Pasadena developer Singpoli passes by their new Dusit D2 Constance Hotel.
Rose Parade
Category: Urban
‘Tis the Season
Once again Pasadena’s Playhouse District celebrates the holidays with engaging banners designed by Hunt Design. The unique triangular banners, featuring high-tech foil printing, can seen all along Colorado Boulevard.
New York City’s Famous Subway Map at MOMA
Is wayfinding design art? It is when the Museum of Modern Art celebrates the iconic subway signage designed by the late Massimo Vignelli in a popular exhibit. Designed in 1970, New York’s subway signage set new standards for clarity, simplicity and thoroughness. The straightforward but colorful signs influenced nearly every… Read more »
Oregon Zoo is Latest Zoo Wayfinding Signage Assignment
The oldest, and perhaps best zoo in the Northwest, the Oregon Zoo has selected Hunt Design for all-new wayfinding signage.
‘Interactive’ Public Art and Urban Gateway
Artist Chris Burden’s 2008 installation of historic street lights at Los Angeles County Museum of Art is a great example of pleasing both critics and the public. The luminous display of restored light poles from the 1920s and 1930s not only forms an engaging public gateway into LACMA, the grid-like… Read more »
Houston Memorial Park – Master Plan Signage
Hunt Design is pleased to be teamed with the prestigious firm Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects of Charlottesville, Virginia to develop signage guidelines as part of a master plan for this well-known sprawling park.
Signs for the No-Fun Park
We’re not sure what else there is to do in a park. Seen in Hong Kong, these ‘don’t do that’ signs really take the fun out of a park visit. We assume you can still sit on a blanket and read a book.
World’s Toughest Sign Code?
Ecuador’s capitol city, Quito, has one tough commercial sign code. In the historic central district the only signs allowed are cutout black letters, mounted directly to the wall. No sign panels, frames, backgrounds. No color and certainly no neon or inner-illumination. So, pure expressions of typography are seen everywhere. And,… Read more »
Termite Tent or Public Art?
Its not Christo wrapping the Reichstag, but the large colorful wrappings deployed by exterminators could double as public installation art. These graphic tents not only enliven and decorate a sleepy street, they signal either that a house is in escrow or someone is fixing a bad problem.
Big Letters, No Sign
Sometimes a sign needs only letters – no actual sign panel. Think Hollywood Sign. And these sets of large letters not only provide identification, they lend an artistic, even sculptural feel to the streetscape. Armory Arts Center and Cisco Home, both in Pasadena