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Buffalo General Medical Center Main Entrance Takeform is collaborating with Kaleida Health to improve patient and visitor experience across their system through improved wayfinding and experiential graphics. Inside and out, we're helping them convey an image equal to the innovative, world-renowned care…  read more

Putting our heads together.The branding of Mindtree's inspired workspaces demonstrates how we've built Takeform to ally with architects and interior designers. Working with Parette Somjen Architects (PSA) was an exciting opportunity to help them infuse brand experience into their client's space. Working…  read more

The inspired urban campus. Project Profile: Monroe Community College After nearly a century of service, the early modernist edifice that was Eastman Kodak's “Factory Number 9 Building" would find new life as a vibrant college campus. Seven floors of twentieth-century business history would undergo…  read more

The changing business model in experiential design. How an end-to-end approach is replacing an old tradition – and how it can prevent exploding budgets, finger pointing, and headaches for your client. Here's a scenario you might recognize – and some pitfalls your clients have encountered, too. Suppose…  read more

Are we there yet? Wayfinding and a sense of arrival. Project Profile: Keuka College PROFILE DETAILS CLIENT: Keuka College WHAT: Signify Exterior Signage & Wayfinding Program WHERE: Keuka Park, NY Established in 1890, in an idyllic lakeside community, Keuka College is a haven of higher education…  read more

American Greetings: a vibrant collaboration PROJECT PROFILE CLIENT: American Greetings Creative Studios | World Headquarters WHAT: Wayfinding Interior Signage WHERE: Cleveland, OH ARCHITECT/ INTERIORS: CallisonRTKL PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF: American Greetings Creative Studios 650,000 square feet. Five…  read more

Think Thanks: 5 Insights onthe Art of Recognition Celebrating the people who make your work possible is an important job for many organizations who depend on philanthropy. From hospital systems to universities to charities, a lot of places create a display of some kind where they can showcase the people…  read more

Your client's biggest branding tool? It's all around them. Their space can do more to conjure specific emotions that directly connect to their brand. As every architect and designer knows, the world is in a perpetual upgrade to vivid, high-def spaces where people expect every encounter to be as intense…  read more

6 things to considerbefore you rebrand your healthcare space. These days, hospital systems can be vast and complex organizations with many kinds of facilities. So, when one embarks on a sweeping identity rebrand, well-designed graphic systems unify disparate sites. They create a comforting, familiar…  read more