Hunt Design just completed a campuswide donor recognition program for the new Villa Esperanza School, designed by Gonzalez Goodale Architects in Pasadena. Villa’s School offers an educational program serving students from 5-22 years old who have special needs associated with autism, cerebral palsy, down syndrome, intellectual and other developmental disabilities…. Read more »
Stay off the States Wayfinding in Washington DC October 31, 2018 Washington DC, is one of my favorite cities anywhere. And great for walking—you can get to most of the cool and interesting parts of town on foot. Add in the terrific Metro and nothing is off limits to the… Read more »
Working with the National Park Service, Hunt Design is developing a series of unique tactile/topographic maps for Saratoga National Historical Park in upstate New York. To refine and evaluate the design, Hunt staff used modeling clay and paint to simulate a bronze casting. Next year twenty-two bronze wayfinding maps and… Read more »
Hunt Design created four exhibits and environmental graphics installations as part of the 140,000 sq.ft. Keck Center for Science and Engineering recently opened in Orange, California. Hunt projects included a permanent exhibit about entrepreneur Arnold Beckman, a wall display featuring Women in Science and animated graphics projected onto the arched… Read more »
A case study on ownership transition by Hunt Principal, John Temple is included in a new book written by nationally recognized business consultant, and long-time friend of Hunt Design, Emily Cohen. The book details strategies for creative businesses looking to evolve their firms. As it’s title suggests, Brutally Honest takes a no… Read more »
Hunt Design Principal Jen Bressler delivered a stimulating, joint presentation with Idaho Falls Park & Recreation Director, Greg Weitzel at the recent NRPA (National Recreation and Park Association) Conference in Indianapolis. The Park & Trail Signage 101 presentation touched on the importance of park branding, signage and wayfinding with examples… Read more »
Still pointing the way, this 2005 signage guidelines program by Hunt Design directs visitors to all publicly-accessible areas of the San Francisco Bay. The multi-piece system includes not only pedestrian access information but access by water as well. Hundreds of the illustrative signs can be seen from Palo Alto to… Read more »
Lost in the Woods Saved by an Icon September 20, 2018 In the late summer of 2014 my experienced hiking buddy, designer Dave Funk, and I parked his SUV at a trail head in Oregon’s Three Sisters Wilderness. We were headed to Black Crater Lake for three days of backpacking… Read more »
Working with HMC Architects, Hunt Design recently participated in an on-site manufacturer’s demonstration of LED digital displays for Palomar College in San Diego County. Pixel configuration, level of brightness, optimal viewing angle, and ease of maintenance were among the criteria being evaluated by the design team for each display.
Adding to the firm’s many relationships in Santa Barbara, the historic Santa Barbara Museum of Art will be working with Hunt Design on an all new signage and wayfinding program. The popular State Street institution is underway on a major multi-year renovation that will enhance nearly every square foot of the… Read more »