Category: Placemaking

Grand Opening of Parisian Macau

Las Vegas Sands Corporation opens the doors to The Parisian this week in Macau. Hunt Design is proud to have been a part of the team that designed and planned this $2.7 billion casino/hotel resort on the Cotai Strip.

‘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.

Great Street Sign

Santa Barbara, California is a great place for many reasons – historic architecture, terrific beaches, wonderful downtown, perfect weather, etc. But, sometimes it’s the little details that catch the eye. Like the elegant bronze street name signs in the pavement at each of the intersections along famous State Street. In… Read more »

‘European’ Signs

Early merchant signs, especially in Europe, often featured objects or icons hung over the walkway. These ‘picture’ signs had few if any words, depending instead on images of the goods or service being offered to attract customers. The principle still works today as seen in this handsome optometrist sign in… Read more »

Sign of Furniture – No Words Needed

Here’s a neon artist’s interpretation of an Eames chair enlivening the interior of a Mid-century Modern furniture store. Even better, the piece does double duty as a sign – it is clearly visible from outside, inviting shoppers in and categorically identifying the business.   The Green Ant, Salt Lake City

Sign for Reading (and Riding)

Bike racks come in all shapes and sizes, but this one is a call-to-action sign. The elegant READ BOOKS letters mounted in the plaza at Salt Lake City’s new library not only function as bicycle racks and invite you to read, but also form an engaging civic sculpture.

Perfect Urban Scale

One reason we like and feel comfortable in certain public spaces is scale – human scale. This attractive paseo in Santa Barbara, California is not only just the right size (width to height), but has all the design elements that gracefully scale-down the environment to people size. Colorful flags, awnings,… Read more »

Canada Color

Colored Space? No. The steel columns and pots in this public building are pure white; the floor dark grey. The rainbow of rich color is light transmitted through multi-colored translucent panels. And the effect changes during the day as the sun moves around the building in downtown Montreal.

Animated Water

Using a “water printer” to control the droplets, this fountain not only displays time and station information, but shows a wide range of artistic patterns and visual tricks to sustain the interest while waiting for your metro to arrive. This has to be one of the coolest clocks to ever… Read more »

First a Sign; then Streetscape Icon; Now Art

Designed around 1900 by architect Hector Guimard, this art nouveau subway design has been defining Parisian streetscapes ever since – over 80 of these elegant gateways survive. This original example now holds court in the sculpture garden at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, sharing the stage with… Read more »