Design

SEGD Awards — East End Children’s Museum

A child’s imagination inspires unique environmental graphics.

Published

17 years ago

October 24, 2007

Jacob Rieskamp Signs of the Times October 2007 Issue

In October’s Signs of Your Times column, ST featured a gallery of select winners from the Society for Environmental Graphic Design’s (SEGD) annual Design Awards competition. This month, the display of victors from SEGD’s pool of 340 submissions continues.

An effective children’s museum successfully bridges the gap between what young ones know and the power of their imaginations. To that end, NYC’s Lee H. Skolnick Architecture + Design Partnership developed an eclectic mix of fanciful elements, such as a treasure-map carpet, floating bed and a musical forest for NYC’s East End Children’s Museum. Tangram International Exhibitions (Los Angeles) fabricated most exhibit elements.

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