FAVERMANN 
DESIGN

Favermann Design is an innovative urban design practice focused on human-centered solutions. We passionately engage in placemaking, civic branding, vibrant streetscapes, and impactful public art. Our mission is to create strong community identities by enhancing accessibility, sustainability, and social equity. Join us in crafting unforgettable places and iconic civic symbols! View More PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS Please click on image for more information on each project: Up

NEWS Favermann Design has been designated as a Veteran Business Enterprise (VBE) by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. “The Birds of Audubon Circle,” part of the City of Boston’s Public Art Collection, was installed 20 years ago in 2005. 2026 is the 25th Season that Favermann Design has been a consultant to the Boston Red Sox! Mark Favermann received the Journalism and Communications Award for his decades of writing on the built environment and Public Art from the American Planning Association, Massachusetts Chapter in 2024. Mark Favermann was recognized by the Mass Cultural Council as a Creative Individual Artist for his sculpture. Please follow Mark Favermann’s sculpture portfolio at Instagram: markfavermann. ABOUT Favermann Design is a creative urban design practice specializing in human scale design solutions. We are heavily involved in strategic placemaking, graceful civic branding, vital streetscapes and functional public art. Our focus is on sense of place and sense of arrival translated into community imaging and applying it to identity, accessibility, streetscape enhancement, sustainability, social equity, public art and social media. Creating memorable places and sustainable spacesthrough the creation of community images and civic icons. We apply creative tools and methods to develop innovative and cost-effective solutions for our clients be they corporate, commercial, institutional or civic. Our staff brings a broad vision of urban design to each project while applying the specific details of architectural methodologies, experiential design approaches and urban design strategies. Our firm’s mantra is that community branding underscores a city, town or neighborhood’s essential character. We use our skills and experience to help create quality storefront and façade enhancement, unique wayfinding, beautiful, functional streetscapes and strategic public art to develop a sense of place along with the notion of a sense of arrival and shared visual and environmental experience. Also, we can tell an appealing story by illustrating complex ideas simply and creatively integrating a unique civic narrative into a strong community signature through inventive placemaking. OUR CREATIVE TEAM Our award-winning senior individuals include urban designers, graphic designers, industrial designers, transportation designers and urban planners. They are all highly skilled and expert in their specific areas of concentration. Each brings a highly refined set of technical and aesthetic tools to every project and commission. View PORTFOLIO

As urban designers focused on creating a sense of place and underscoring a sense of arrival, Favermann Design uses human scale elements to underscore community branding and unique placemaking. For the Town of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, our firm created branded street furniture like these bike racks reflecting a former town-beloved Purple Beech Tree that grew on the Town Common for over 200 hundred years. The Beech Tree leaf shape was used on wayfinding signs, planters, and backs of benches. These are examples of the strategic integration of public art, local history, placemaking and functionality. Branded Street Furniture: Town of Chelmsford Up Home

Storefronts and Facade Design The vitality of a community’s commercial districts underscores the character, energy, and civic identity of a community itself. Shaping our sense of place and our collective retail experience, sensitive storefront and façade design are skills of Favermann Design. Our firm sees the commercial setting to need to be balanced with a thoughtful environment that makes everyday life more communal and livable through application of scale, materials, colors, individual identity, and accessibility. We create both eye and curb appeal. Understanding the need to listen to the client in order to creatively translate their wishes and dreams, our staff prides itself on creatively encouraging “Mom and Pop” to be an integral part of the 21st Century. Up Home

The Birds of Audubon Circle, A Public Art Gateway The transformative appeal of the best public art can create a unique sense of place by bringing beauty and joy to daily life. It can underscore a community’s character connecting to residents and visitors. In 2005, The Birds of Audubon Circle were installed at the crossing of Park Drive and Beacon Street near the City of Boston’s border with the Town of Brookline. Created by Mark Favermann, the project consisted of 20 indigenous kinetic bird silhouettes fabricated in painted aluminum and attached to individual light poles by an armature called an Artwing. This sculptural assemblage is a part of the City’s Public Art Collection. Its sponsor, the Audubon Circle Neighborhood Association (ACNA), uses birds from it for their ANCA logo. The Boston Marathon runs under them each year. Boston City Councilor Sharon Durkan has advocated adding to “the flock” by expanding the number of birds. Plans are now flying along to add ten more birds over the 2025-26 Winter. Up Home

Community Branding in Wakefield Branding is an integral part of reinforcing a community’s identity. After creating a signage brand for information kiosks, Favermann Design developed a comprehensive branding application for the Town of Wakefield. This included all aspects of the town’s website, internal and external communication, town hall signs, supplemental official signage, and departmental messaging and identity. Up Home

COMMUNITY BRANDING More than simply an identity or image, Community Branding underscores the unique character and personality of a particular place as well as strategically informs creative placemaking. MASTER PLANNIng/ SPECIALITY PLANNING We use our creative approaches to analyze issues, create approaches, work out appropriate tactics and develop problem solutions. PUBLIC ART Our communities gain cultural, social, and economic value through public art.

Reading Art ReadingBanner Reading Art 1/8 The Committee recommended that the consultant follow up by refining designs of building silhouettes, use of Reading red and adding the Palladian window as an Artwing design painted black. THE TOWN OF READING, MA Back to Portfolio

1/2 ROSETTE BICYCLE RACK Rosette Bicycle Rack at Peabody Square, Peabody, MA, Painted steel, 42” x 72” Back to Portfolio

MDI Since 2014, our firm has been a strategic consultant to the Massachusetts Downtown Initiative (MDI), a program of the Commonwealth’s Department of Housing and Community Development. Each year we have worked with two to five towns and cities across the state to create community branding, wayfinding and social media. Shown is a final report for the Town of Eastham on Cape Cod. Back to Portfolio

1/1 THE TOWN OF PEABODY, MA Named for the father of modern philanthropy, George Peabody, the City of Peabody went from being a farm center to a major center of New England’s leather tannery industry. A design was created with the Branding and Wayfinding Committee that incorporates a metaphorical window and historic rosettes. A tagword—Live can refer to as a recommendation for residency as well as description of community vitality. Back to Portfolio

PUBLIC ART Freely accessible, Public Art humanizes the built environment and even emotionally enlivens public spaces. It is the visual crossroads between our history, present and future that connects disciplines and ideas. The art in public spaces reflects and reveals our society, enhances meaning in our civic realm and adds uniqueness to our community settings. Our communities gain cultural, social, and economic value through public art. Our firm specializes in functional public art that underscores quality streetscapes and community identity and builds creative placemaking. Kiosks Easthampton Bench Artwalk Clinton Steel Sign Coolidge Corner Cinema Zig Zag Benches Chelmsford Tree Guard Chelmsford Bench Artwings Phoneix Sundial Bull Artwing Fish Bench Creature Comfort Weatherwane Soccer Gateway S Bench Peabody Bike Rack Painted Utility Boxes Bike Racks 1/1 Home