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

Branding: ArtWalk, The Town of Hull For a public ArtWalk in the Town of Hull, Favermann Design created branded entrance and exit structures welcoming visitors to a series of artworks located across the street from Nantasket Beach. The art trail is on grounds once occupied by Paragon Park, a generational amusement park that attracted thousands for decades. The Hull Brand echoes an abstracted ocean wave. A series of adjacent blue benches also incorporate the wave brand as well. 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

Store Front Design 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

Beautiful Benches Street Furniture is a collective term for functional objects that are installed along sidewalks, streets, and roads for various purposes. The best street furniture embraces aesthetics, visual identity, function, pedestrian accessibility, and road safety. The creation of street furniture is a strong aspect of Favermann Design’s practice. Favermann Design’s approach to street furniture elements like benches, gateways, bike racks, etc. incorporates various creative approaches that add personality, character, and even familial presence. Our inspired street furniture elements and programs underscore local environment, visual themes, sense of place, and even public health. They also strengthen a sense of the community’s social and historical value. From the abstract to the ornate, the progeny of the marriage of public art and functional street furniture, sculptural benches are strong examples of how aesthetics can be applied to street furniture resulting in a specific community personality and charm. Illustrated are a few examples of Favermann Design’s bench projects. Up Home

Trail Signs: Acton and Concord For the towns of Acton and Concord, MA, Favermann Design recently completed a strategic branding and wayfinding system for the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail in the two nearby communities. It seamlessly connects the natural scenic areas with the adjacent commercial districts and points of interest. Up Home

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

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

WAKEFIELD STYLEGUIDE The Town of Wakefield worked with our firm to create a Style Guide for all of the town’s communication elements. Based on the iconic kiosk topper that our firm created, all forms of official communication and correspondence are now visually consistent. Back to HOME Back to MP/SP

1/3 BEECH LEAF BIKE RACKS Beech Leaf Bike Racks at Chelmsford Village Center, Chelmsford, MA, Painted Aluminum, 42” x 32” Back to Portfolio