Urban Paths

As other companies search for creative ways to name their conference rooms, according to a recent story by NPR’s Marketplace, we recently completed the design and installation of our final conference room graphic. ICL-Imaging produced and installed PAYETTE’s Wilson Practice Room’s graphics. The Wilson Practice Room is our largest conference room and located adjacent to our kitchen and interiors library. This is an active, heavily trafficked location marked by an entry through double glass doors. At our former office and now at our new office, the Wilson Practice Room (named after John Wilson, Partner Emeritus) has long-been our firm’s largest gathering space for events and firm-wide project pin-ups.

Complementing the Boston Harbor Island graphics for our other conference rooms, the concept behind the patterned letter forms also has ties to its urban location – the light-filled Wilson Practice Room hugs perimeter windows overlooking Congress Street and the city beyond. The artwork embedded in the letter forms, also featured on our 2011 holiday sketchbook cover, consists of abstract linework representative of the network of streets and paths in our neighborhood.

Produced as vinyl decals with CMYK values that emulate etched glass, the glass surface and the transparent decals have a kinetic quality that play off the changing light throughout the day. Walking by, the letters seemingly move and obscure – transcending letter forms – achieving an artful quality that subtly marks the room.

PAYETTE’s 2011 Sketchbook cover features the urban map of Boston and PAYETTE’s building marked in copper along the Fort Point Channel.

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Signage Design by Kristyn Hill, Liz Reynolds and Karen Robichaud.
Photography by Rachellynn Schoen and Rashad Baniabbasi.