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

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.

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

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

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

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