New Civic Wayfinding Programs Help Brand, Unite and Revitalize

PASADENA, CA —January 12, 2011— Hunt Design, a Pasadena-based leading graphic designer for buildings, places and spaces, recently placed the finishing touches on several diverse civic wayfinding programs created throughout Southern California. Spanning signage and wayfinding for Fontana’s Civic Center district, a gateway park for the City of Palm Springs and… Read more »

In Smokey We Trust

Smokey versus No Smokey. Who do you trust?

Who else but Smokey the Bear do we trust with fire safety information? For over fifty years this friendly but serious bear has looked us in the eye and implored us to prevent forest fires. Smokey’s origin is clouded in myth, but he remains among the most accepted and beloved… Read more »

Posting – Old School

Poster Kiosk UCLA

There’s a kiosk in there somewhere, but it is obscured by hundreds of student postings (here, the original meaning of posting). Seeking roommates, yoga classes, tutoring, bicycles for sale, sex counseling, ride-sharing, foreign study, choir auditions – you name it. A nexus of campus information and interaction, these layered displays… Read more »

Element of Design

Neon Museum, Las Vegas, NV

The technological contributions of the French may not be fully appreciated. Certainly, the inventions of Louis Pasteur, Gustave Eiffel and Louis Braille are known worldwide, but it is the effort of one lesser-known French inventor, Georges Claude, which has made a lasting impact to the world of environmental graphic design…. Read more »

Metropolis Magazine

We get a lot of professional design magazines – graphics, architecture, product design, exhibit design, but one of our favorites is the consumer publication Metropolis. This architecture and design-centric publication is always interesting, topical, well edited and makes design accessible not only to the public, but to us professionals as… Read more »