FAVERMANN 
DESIGN

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

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

1/3 UTILITY BOXES Historic Image Applied to Utility Box at Brighton Police Station, Brighton Center, MA, 42” x 64” Back to Portfolio

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

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

WELLS For Wells, Maine, Favermann Design was commissioned to develop a unique approach to community branding, wayfinding and public art. The town situated between both Ogunquit and Kennebunkport, ME is a beach and fishing community with no true downtown. This project gave identity and direction to the community. Back to MP/SP Back to HOME

COMMUNITY BRANDING Community Branding allows for enhancing the urban fabric. By adding visual quality and elegant function, it also fixes the holes and tears in the civic tapestry. The process of Community Branding emphasizes distinctiveness, projecting a positive image, while providing a shared sense of arrival and a sense of place. It allows people to be connected to not only location but to experience. 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. Reading Chelmsford Sturbridge Wells Brookline Wakefield Scituate Sunderland Clinton Ipswich Woburn Hudson Easthampton Wellesley Hull 1/1 Home

BV-1 Brookline.sign 1/3 THE TOWN OF BROOKLINE, MA The Town of Brookline was the home of the great Landscape Architect Frederick Law Olmstead. He loved Elm Trees. To honor him and the town’s heritage, Elm leaves were used as the brand for town-wide branding. Back to Portfolio

1/5 TREE GUARD and PLANTER Branded Tree Guard and Planter at Chelmsford Village Center, Chelmsford, MA, Painted Black Aluminum. Back to Portfolio

1/5 CHELMSFORD VILLAGE CENTER BENCH Chelmsford Village Center Bench, Chelmsford, MA, Polycarbonate Wood and Painted Steel, 42’ x 78” Back to Portfolio

1/5 THE TOWN OF EASTHAM, MA With its beautiful vistas, lovely homes and institutional buildings, the American master Edward Hopper painted many pictures of the Town of Eastham, MA, a very picturesque seaside community on Upper Cape Cod. As a project of the Massachusetts Downtown Initiative (MDI), Favermann Design worked with the community to create a brand image and apply it to wayfinding, sign elements as well as social media. Depicted are the historic and beautiful Nauset Light, oil house and lightkeeper's home from 1923 overlooking the coastal waters. Back to Portfolio