FAVERMANN 
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

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

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

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

1/8 THE TOWN OF MEDFORD Medford Storefront Guidelines This set of guidelines helps merchants and business owners add to the vitality and appeal of the City of Medford's commercial areas. Back to MP/SP Back to 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

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

WARM WINTER PLACEMAKING Favermann Design's proposal submission was honored to be chosen as a top tier design and planning idea for Winter Places, a placemaking competition for outdoor areas during cold weather COVID-19 pandemic times. This is a program of MDI and Patronicity. www.patronicity.s3.amazonaws.com/static/bench/Winter+Places++Design+Guide+for+Winter+Activation+2020.pdf Back to MP/SP Back to HOME

LOCAL RAPID RECOVERY PLAN The Internationally recognized Local Rapid Recovery Plan (LRRP) Program was a statewide project to revitalize downtowns, respond to the effects of COVID-19 on local businesses, and prioritize actions and strategies in 2021. Favermann Design worked on 11 of the 124 plans for cities and towns. It was focused on providing every municipality in Massachusetts the opportunity to develop actionable, project-based recovery plans tailored to the unique economic challenges and COVID-19 related impacts to downtowns, town centers, and commercial areas across the commonwealth. Back to MP/SP Back to HOME

Our Services Include: Community Planning DA Design Application and Compliance Equity, Diversity and Inclusionary Workshops Business Development Workshops Social Justice Event Planning SOCIAL EQUITY DESIGN AND PLANNING SERVICES Our Workshops & Professional Development Strategies: We work with clients and stakeholders to create an equitable process by design. In turn, we utilize creative public engagement strategies to reach historically under-represented groups and to inspire existing organizational hierarchies to follow equitable practices. We offer cultural efficacy workshops for planners, policymakers, and civic organizations. Our firm trains executive-level staff, managers, and employees to program and plan socially-sensitive project implementation and sustainable procedures. Back to MP/SP Back to HOME