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 »
Favorite Signs No.2
Demonstrating that graphic design can be ‘built in’ to a building, this huge, architecturally integrated address on the new Caltrans District 7 headquarters building in Los Angeles is one of our favorite signs. Not only does it dramatically state the address, the sign forms the artistic focal point of the… Read more »
In Smokey We 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
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 »
Happy Holidays
With a little help from Macy’s, we wish you a wonderful holiday season. You gotta’ believe.
Element of Design
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 »
Recent Design History
The new becomes old quickly, especially in Los Angeles. It has been only twenty-six years since the City of Angels hosted the 1984 Olympics, but the celebrated and successful event is now just a memory. However, the famous Stars in Motion logo, by the late designer Robert Miles Runyan, can… Read more »
We Hate Graffiti, but…
Graffiti is awful and usually degrades any environment. But here is an interesting New York public art installation using the medium, technology and even the letterforms of graffiti.
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 »
Favorite Signs No. 1
We don’t have an Eiffel Tower or a Golden Gate Bridge, but Los Angeles does have one of the most famous signs in the world. First deployed in 1923 by a real estate developer as HOLLYWOOD LAND, the remaining sign of nine 45’ high letters is recognizable around the world… Read more »