Lancaster General Health’s Ann B. Barshinger Cancer Institute is an award-winning cancer treatment center located in picturesque central Pennsylvania.

The donor recognition wall visually captures the cancer patient journey while creating a beautiful centerpiece to the main lobby. The visual color palette of the lobby centerpiece is then carried through the interior design and wayfinding package.

Client: Ballinger Architects

Completed: 2013

Details: 100,000 SF including exam and procedure rooms, physician offices, staff workspace, consultation areas, a cancer resource library, conference areas, an imaging center, an infusion center, healing garden, meditation room, and children’s playing area

Cost: $200,000

www.ballinger.com

* completed while at Exit Design

The new Chesapeake House Travel Plaza replaces its outmoded predecessor with a gracious and environmentally sensitive respite for travelers. Chesapeake House shares graphic and signage characteristics with Maryland House, its neighbor to the south. The bold typographic palette draws inspiration from the largest estuary in the country, the Chesapeake Bay. Nautical themes are expressed in natural hues with glassy transparencies reminiscent of daylight and water. Visitors appreciate their relationship to Chesapeake Bay Watershed and its myriad species.

Client: AREAS USA

Completed: 2014

Details: 30,000 SF

Cost: $900,000

* completed while at Ayers Saint Gross

The 2017 Campus Master Plan seeks to re-imagine how the physical environment contributes to continuing intellectual advancement. Key objectives include enhancing the student experience, increasing spatial connectivity and interdisciplinary opportunities, and linking buildings via a cohesive landscape and common spaces.

Client: Texas A&M University

Completed: 2017

Details: 5,200 acre campus and 68,600 undergraduate enrollment

Cost: $2,500,000 (est.)

view Master Plan Document

www.tamu.edu

* completed while at Ayers Saint Gross

SEPTA provides public transportation to 2,200 square miles in Bucks,  Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties, and select rail service in New Jersey and Delaware. SEPTA annually serves 3.9 million riders via bus, subway, light rail, trackless trolley, Regional Rail, and Paratransit services.

A 250-page signage standards manual was developed to design, document, and implement a cohesive sign system with the ability to be applied throughout the SEPTA service area. Consideration was given to related laws, codes, guidelines, and regulations of local governing authorities and municipalities while supporting the SEPTA brand. Jack Hulme partnered with Urban Engineers and Converse Winkler Architects.

Client: Converse Winkler Architects

Completed: 2011

Details: Inventory of existing signage and documenting site conditions for 22 stations along the R5 Overbrook / Paoli Regional Rail line. Utilizing the new sign standards manual, bid packages were assembled for 17 stations

Cost: $3,200,000

www.cwarc.com

www.urbanengineers.com

Create an identification and interpretive sign system for the headquarters of Susquehanna Heritage, which serves as Pennsylvania’s Official Visitor Contact and Passport Station for the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail.

Client: Murphy & Dittenhafer Architects

Completed: 2007

Details: Site includes a Scenic Waterfront and Paddle Craft Launch, River Art Exhibit, School Programs, and Nativ Lands County Park

Cost: $75,000

www.susquehannaheritage.org

The signage system strengthens campus identity, clarifies wayfinding, highlights prominent campus destinations, and creates a sense of welcome while elevating the college brand. The wayfinding program includes a family of interior and exterior signs ranging from campus gateways to pedestrian kiosks to room identification signs. The design incorporates a stencil-cut conceptual representation of the Catoctin Mountain range visible from campus.

Client: Frederick Community College

Completed: 2015

Details: 98 acre campus and 6,200 undergraduate enrollment

Cost: $1,000,000

www.frederick.edu

* completed while at Ayers Saint Gross

The project represents a perfect marriage of environmental graphic design with architectural design, from the collaborative team approach to the aesthetic consistency reflected throughout. The Center for Wellness demonstrates the potential that exists when wayfinding is developed as an integral component of building design.

The project is rated LEED Silver by the US Green Building Council and received the AIA NJ Design Award for innovative architectural design in 2006.

Client: ikon.5 Architects

Completed: 2008

Details: 55,000 SF housing the school’s physical education, health services, nursing, and athletics programs

Cost: $75,000

www.ikon5architects.com

The Pennsylvania Farm Show is the largest indoor agricultural event in the country. One of the most recognizable features of the original building is its exterior bas-relief frieze of livestock. Wall-mounted, suspended or panel-mounted, and decorative overhead interior signs feature a typeface to match the historic exterior building lettering and agricultural images printed in old-fashioned duotone technique.

Wayfinding, identification, and map signs throughout the interior are complimented by deco-style aluminum and steel ornamentation and rising sun iconography recalling the historic details used on the interior.

The project received the AIA PA Design Award for design excellence in 2012.

Client: Converse Winkler Architecture

Completed: 2011

Details: 25-acres and over 1 million SF of building area

Cost: $350,000

www.cwarc.com

A gift of the Leon Lowenstein Foundation, the Princeton University Bendheim Center for Finance was named for alumnus Robert A. Bendheim, ‘37.

New signage components include room and office identification, department identification, restroom identification, and new building directories.

In addition to room and wayfinding signage, a donor recognition program was developed to recognize various alumni donors who helped fund elements of the project. Materials include tempered glass with sandblasted finishes, etched lettering and graphics, applied brass lettering, and decorative brass fasteners.

Client: Robert J. Toth Associates

Completed: 2001

Details: Donor recognition wall, classrooms, lecture halls, and faculty offices

Cost: $85,000

www.princeton.edu

Create a comprehensive exterior and interior wayfinding and ADA sign system for 87,000 SF medical tower. A large curved feature wall highlights the organizational mission and philosophy on patient care.

Additionally, project included detail plans for removal of existing signage throughout three Susquehanna Health campuses.

Client: Stantec

Completed: 2012

Details: 87,000 SF including family medicine practice, outpatient surgery, obstetrics, pulmonology, neurology, neurosurgery, and an outpatient heart and vascular institute

Cost: $450,000

www.stantec.com

* completed while at Exit Design

Images of a custom coffee table I made from 100+ year old ash tree lumber and steel bar stock for our music room.