SIGNAGE & WAYFINDING

The Parrish Art Museum is an art museum designed by Herzog & de Meuron Architects and located in Water Mill, New York, whereto it moved in 2012 from Southampton Village. The museum focuses extensively on artists’ work from the artist colony of the South and North Shore in Long Island. It was founded in 1897 and has grown into a major art museum with a permanent collection of more than 3,000 works ranging from early nineteenth-century landscape paintings through American Impressionism and into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including some well-known names such as Chuck Close, Dan Flavin, Roy Lichtenstein, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Willem de Kooning, William Merritt Chase, and Fairfield Porter. The new architecture got inspiration from the unique atmosphere of light, water, and sky of the region and the legendary wood-frame artist studio barns of Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and others.

Signage & wayfinding system design for the newly built museum by Herzog & de Meuron architects that opened its doors in November of 2012. The signage’s design solution was driven by great respect for the architecture and the need to be functional while not distracting. Where possible, natural materials were used, carving into surfaces, white-on-white donors, and gallery signage to tie into the use of readily accessible building materials and local construction methods for the building itself. The signage project was developed during the last stages of building construction. That presented an opportunity for a face to face collaboration with the architect. The entire process was very interactive. Another great benefit was an appointment of Precision Signs, who fabricated and installed all signage. The possibility of prototyping and testing a variety of materials was essential to the success of the project.

SIGNAGE & WAYFINDING

Signage & Wayfinding for a secondary school currently under construction.

Thaden School is an independent secondary school in Bentonville, Arkansas, that opened its doors in Fall 2017. It was named in honor of Iris Louise McPhetridge Thaden (1905-1979), a proud Arkansan and one of the greatest aviators of her time.