Client, Year

Baltimore Museum of Industry, 
2019

Services

Signage
Wayfinding

Photography

Baltimore Museum of Industry

Employing hard-working type to do the heavy lifting

Housed in the former Platt & Company oyster cannery south of the Inner Harbor, the Baltimore Museum of Industry explores Maryland’s industrial legacy. The museum’s five-acre waterfront campus in Baltimore lacked effective street-facing signage. We partnered with the museum and the Maryland Historic Trust to develop an effective signage system that met the preservation easement requirements on the building’s original 1865 facade. Vintage images and lettering manuals inspired our historically accurate hand-painted designs. Above the museum’s main entrance, we created a flexible system of 20-foot banners to announce current exhibitions and further define the visitors’ entrance.

Platt & Company was one of eighty canneries operating around Baltimore’s harbor in the 19th century. This turn of the century photograph served as inspiration for our signage.

One of the museum’s largest artifacts, a shipbuilding crane from 1942, helped increase our design’s visibility.

Towering over the museum at 104 feet, the “Whirley Crane” was one of dozens of cranes in the Bethlehem Steel Fairfield Shipyard that helped build over 500 Liberty and Victory ships during WWII.

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