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Wayside exhibits and other environmental graphics act as a captions on the landscape, create a sense of place, and help people find their way.
Paynes Prairie Preserve
Florida Department of Environmental Protection • Micanopy, Florida
The trailhead kiosks feature the new visitor center visual identity. The map is graphically linked to a wall-sized map in the visitor center, which also features new exhibits. Three trailhead paired panels and two single sitemap panels were fabricated and installed.
Santa Fe River Greenway
Santa Fe River Greenway • Santa Fe County, New Mexico
This nine panel wayside and orientation program honors the 400 years that the El Camino Real De Tierra Andentro linked the Spanish culture of Europe to the interior of the New World. Is is a UNESCO recognized site. It is mounted to Corten steel and features stories of water rights and
the items moved up and down the highway.
Details: 9 panels developed, designed, fabricated, and installed for $57,000
Mount Greylock State Reservation
Department of Conservation and Recreation • Lanesborough, Massachusetts
Our mandate was to create an accessible experience for the “lighthouse on a mountain” the Mount Greylock War Memorial. How could a person who is unable to walk 92 stairs up a tight passageway to experience the stunning views of western Massachusetts and New York. In addition to the views, we had to make accessible the unique design of the monument itself. Our
solution was to create a casting that depicted the interior of the tower.
Details: 4 panels and casting, development, design, fabrication and installation for $ 49,000.
Borderland State Park
Florida Department of Environmental Protection • Micanopy, Florida
Borderlands is the name given to an estate that straddles the towns of Easton and Sharon in Massachusetts. The mansion on the estate was built by the Ames family who acquired great wealth in the manufacture of shovels during the Civil War. Our interpretive program focuses on Blanche and Oakes Ames, the famous botanist couple.
Details: 5 panels designed, fabricated, and installed for $ 17,500.
Jacobs Elementary School
Florida Department of Environmental Protection • Micanopy, Florida
The interpretive program is about the sustainable decisions made by the architect to create a greener, more sustainable school that does not induce headaches.Designed by T2 Architects, the Jacobs Elementary school received a William W. Caudill citation.
Details: 3 panels and other miscellaneous graphics designed and final production files produced for $ 14,700.
Fort Lancaster Historic Site
Texas Historical Commission • Sheffield, Texas
Little remains of the outpost that protected the critical trail connecting San Antonio and El Paso, but the Texas Historical Commission wanted to provide visitors who strolled along the fort’s pathways a glimpse into the life of a prairie soldier facing the harsh environment of the Texas Plains.
Details: 17 panels, including 6 small panels, developed, designed, illustrated, fabricated, and installed for $ 36,000.
Lynn Shore and Nahant Beach Reservation
Department of Conservation and Recreation • Boston, Massachusetts
The isthmus that connects the town of Nahant to the mainland, though slender, has been well-traveled by Nipmucks, colonists, and today’s strollers and bikers. Our interpretive program, located right on the ever-shifting sands of the beachwalk, informs today’s visitors of the historic use, migratory birds, and the challenge of the algae, Pilayella littoralis. In addition to this program, several previously designed panels that had deteriorated were replaced with minor design changes Total for nine panels fabricated an distilled was 31,000.
Details: 9 panels developed, designed, fabricated and installed for $ 31,000.
Raymond E. Shaw Elementary School
T2 Architecture • Millbury, Massachusetts
This wide ranging interpretive an environmental graphics program expands the young students educational universe beyond the walls of the award-winning school designed by T2 Architects. Students learn about the meadow planted by the entry, how water power operates next to the runnel and turbine station, and the recreational area outside is a phycicists’ play ground.
Details: Numerous interior and exterior graphic components, development, design, production and construction, $186,000.
Marigold Marsh at Houghton's Pond
DCR • Milton, Massachusetts
These engaging interpretive waysides take you along an incredible boardwalk to the beach and are a window to the world of water-loving wildlife and swamp-happy plant species.
Details: 6 panels developed, illustrated, produced and installed for $ 15,000.
Salem Awards Foundation
Salem, Massachusetts
Located adjacent to the award-winning memorial to the victims of the 1693 Witch Hysteria, this interpretive panel provides context to this beautifully integrated work of landscape architecture.
Shorebird Protection Program
Boston, Massachusetts
The competition between humans (and their dogs) and shorebirds for beachspace is a major challenge for the coastal ecologists at the Massachusetts Department of Conservation & Recreation and Mass Audubon. We led these agencies in a collaboration that produced a multi-lingual messaging strategy centered around families— human families sharing space with Plover families.
Details: 25 panels produced, fabricated and installed for $ 30,000.
Boston Parks and Recreation Urban Wilds
Boston, Massachusetts
While we are all familiar with the lovely parks in Boston; the Public Gardens,
and Charlestown Training Field for another, we are less familiar with open green spaces that are not mowed, have little paving, and no playgrounds. These are called Urban Wilds and have a different set of rules. They need to be protected because visitors think of them as neglected urban areas.
Casey Arborway Connector
DCR/HNTB • Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts
Busy commuters making their connections at Forest Hills Station may not realize a vital connection has been created as well right outside the station. Our new placemaking graphic panels show how the most significant single entity of the Emerald Necklace, Franklin Park, has reclaimed its place as the pendant. The Necklace is a series of inter-connected urban greenspaces designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted in the 1890s. In addition, our program describes the Southwest Corridor Park, a unique, five-mile-long park that took the place of the homes and businesses cleared for the Interstate 695 project.
Confederate Reunion Ground
Texas Historical Commission • Mexia, Texas
This project celebrates the camaraderie of the veterans of the Confederate Army from Limestone County and the oil boom era times in the town of Mexia. Later, Albert oilman E. Humphreys formed a relationship with the community where his company provided recreational facilities and other amenities for the sole rights to pump water from the Navasota River. The program interprets this site which is still used for activties.
Details: 10 panels developed, designed, fabricated and installed for $ 19,000.
Caddo Mounds State Historic Park
Texas Historic Commission • Alto, Texas
This site is but a portion of the sprawling Caddo village that existed here a hundred years before contact with Spanish explorers. They left behind their mysterious burial and temple mounds and the Caddo who live in Oklahoma consider the land sacred. We worked with the Texas Historical Commission to illustrate the aspects of the site in an accurate and sensitive manner.
Details: 8 panels developed, fabricated and installed for $ 25,000.
Crane Point Museum and Nature Center
Florida Keys Land & Sea Trust • Marathon, Florida
While an art and project director at another firm, Mr. Malouf designed a wayside and interpretive program for 6 miles of trails on this 63 acre site. Over 80 maps, wayside panels, and species identification panels were researched, written, beautifully illustrated, and produced and installed to complement the new boardwalk and a vibrant educational program. The illustrative approach used a combination of hand-drawn maps with computer added color to complement the artist’s drawings.
Details: 71 panels of various sizes, designed, fabricated, and installed for $ 201,000.
Fannin State Historic Battleground
Texas Historical Commission, Fannin, Texas
We commemorated an important battle of the war for Texas independence through tactile exhibits, an interactive LED battle map, and an 18-foot graphic mural that incorporated the cause and points of view of both sides of this pivotal conflict. This is supported by an exterior exhibit program featuring the participants and community commemoration that took place soon after the conflict.
Details: 550sf exhibit and 6 panels developed, designed, fabricated and installed for $ 168,000.
Bradley J. Campus Memorial
L/Cpl Bradley J Campus Memorial Fund, Lynn, Massachusetts
Due to finish his enlisment in the Marines, Lance Corporal Bradley Campus was thinking of the next phase of his life, he would use his Marine Corp. benefits to train as a pastry chef. Tragically, he was one of 241 marines killed when a suicide bomber rammed into the barracks in Beirut, Lebanon during the 1983 peacekeeping mission.
Details: 1 panel delivered, installed by owner, $ 3,800.