Touring the BPL Graphics Project

Lions and libraries and signage, oh my! As the new intern for the Arrowstreet graphics department, I was excited to join a small group of Arrowstreeters on a tour of the large volume of completed graphics and wayfinding work at the Boston Public Library. Over the course of the project, Bob Lowe, Lauren Haggerty, and Jen Hoerig have filled many roles…

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BPL Unveils its First Phase of Renovations

The grand opening of the Phase 1 renovations of the BPL’s Central Library took place on Saturday, February 21st. Arrowstreet Graphic Design served as the signage and environmental graphic consultants to William Rawn Associates. We had so much fun creating the wall graphics in the Children’s Room (including the illustrations that inspired the brownstones built by Mystic Scenic Studios and…

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Boston Public Library New Wayfinding: Unveiled

Please join us on Monday, June 16 at 5:30 to learn about the new wayfinding program we’ve been working on for the BPL. I will be speaking with Bob Lowe and Nathan Hall of APCO Signs. The event is being hosted by SEGD Boston and will include a tour of the new wayfinding program, as well as the amazing art & architecture at the Boston Public Library’s Central Library in historic Copley Square. This event is free and open to the public.

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East Boston Public Library in the Globe

If you read the Sunday edition of the Boston Globe this past weekend, you may have come across the article about the new East Boston branch of the Boston Public Library. Arrowstreet Graphic Design served as the environmental graphics consultant to William Rawn Associates. We designed the engraved pavers, mentioned in the article, along with the interpretive panels in the library’s stormwater garden. I attended the opening of the library with my family this past November where my son examined the finished product. Thankfully, it passed inspection.

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Sea Glass Mural Again in the Globe

Our work was profiled again recently in the Boston Globe (link to article). As mentioned previously, it’s great to look  back on a successful project and see that it has become iconic to the local area… at least when discussing the weather. Hand-pieced together a few years back from over 900 pounds of sea glass, the mural continues to enliven the windows at 255 State Street.

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Dwiggins Marionettes at the BPL

Earlier this year, our graphic design studio was awarded the comprehensive wayfinding project for the Copley Square branch of the Boston Public Library. It’s a terrific project and really an amazing place to wander and explore. In our orientation to the two historic buildings and our subsequent site visits (for programming and analysis), we discovered quite a few unusual spaces. One of these spaces is home to the Dwiggins Collection…

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Yulia Brodskaya’s Papergraphics

In my constant search for new forms of inspiration, I recently came across the artist Yulia Brodskaya who creates innovative papergraphics using thin strips of paper to make intricate, mesmerizing illustrations—a process also known as quilling….

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Clash Detection at 85 South Service Road

As part of the shop drawing review process for the 85 South Service Road project on Long Island, I’ve been running clash detection between the structural steel and the aluminum curtainwall fabrication models…

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New Graphics at the Seaport World Trade Center

Over the past year, Bob Lowe and I have been working with Pembroke Real Estate on a new environmental graphics program for the Seaport World Trade Center. In addition to other changes happening around Seaport Place, Pembroke Real Estate wanted to breathe some new life into the 98 year old building. Along with new banners, awnings and tenant signage, the heart of the program will include nods to the pier’s rich history…

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Re-Imagining Urban Retail

For about six years now, we’ve been working with real estate brokers and building owners as an integral member of their successful leasing and sales campaigns. Most often, our clients want to show prospective tenants how their brand could be envisioned within the space they are leasing. The concepts and photo-illustrations we create explore the potential in retail locations and help everyone involved see how dynamic a space can really be.

It is a process that we fell into when our friends at Cushman & Wakefield in New York asked us for retail advice. The photo-illustrations combine our knowledge and experience in architecture, retail, illustration and graphic design and are just fun to produce…

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