More great work by the VisArts Youth Design Team

The VisArts Center in Rockville (technically the "Metropolitan Center for the Visual Arts") is an arts training and education nonprofit based in the Rockville Town Center. It gets space support from Montgomery County, and is considered one of the key civic assets at the Town Center (along with the library and the public square).

One of their projects is the Youth Design Team, which teaches graphic and computer-based design to teens and young adults.

I asked them to help me out with an idea on a crunch deadline--coming up with a "design and wayfinding system" for signage for civic assets in Baltimore County, focused of course on bikeways and trailways, since I was working on a pedestrian and bicycle plan, and I thought that coming up with a branded identity for biking assets would be an important element in developing the support for building and maintaining the necessary facilities.

We didn't have the time to work through various iterations and come up with a complete system--I dropped this on them less than 3 weeks before the end of the grant, the project, the due date, and the ending of my position--but I think that Kelly Holland captured very well the idea that I was trying to express and achieve. If I go back and do more work there, this is a project I want to continue to push.

Thank you Kelly Holland, the Youth Design Team, and VisArts! Note that the YDT provides design services for nonprofit projects... and they could help you out too.