Space as Medium

Northeastern University's Snell Engineering Center needed its physical spaces to reflect the ambition and rigor of its Civil and Environmental Engineering program. The scope covered the full environmental design system for the CEE Tunnel, the building's main corridor, transforming it from a functional passageway into an immersive branded experience.

Large-format wall graphics spanning the corridor blend underwater photography, aerial cityscapes, structural engineering imagery, and the department's mission language into a cohesive visual journey. The impact wall anchors the space with the Northeastern CEE identity and its tagline: "Creating sustainable and resilient urban environments for the world."

The donor recognition wall is the centrepiece: a sound wave rendered in dimensional acrylic panels, each blade etched with a donor's name. The wave form nods to signal processing and structural resonance, themes central to engineering, turning philanthropy into sculpture.

Pacific Foods, a Campbell's brand rooted in Oregon's natural landscape and farm-to-table ethos, needed their Portland Mt. Whitney office to feel like an extension of the brand: vibrant, community-minded, and unmistakably Pacific Northwest.

The full-building environmental program transformed every zone of the office into a branded experience: a large-format UV-printed entrance mural anchored by "Live Specifically." and the Pacific Foods logo, a bold typographic conference room mural celebrating Portland culture, acoustic felt panel compositions color-matched to Pacific's brand palette throughout meeting rooms and workspaces, Mt. Hood photography printed on acoustic panels across the mezzanine, and floating wood product shelving with branded Barista Series signage.

Every surface, wall, ceiling, shelf, and corridor, was treated as a design opportunity to reinforce Pacific's mission of connecting people through food they love.