Exhibit design for Manhattan Noon at The Museum of the City of New York.
The exhibit which featured photography by Gus Powell, and poems by Frank O’Hara, was designed so that viewers could take it with them: Over 400,000 individual sheets were printed with any 12 of O’Hara’s poems, then bound to the walls in pads, anchored with bold colored backings, evocative of some of the common New York city street colors (ie- taxi cab yellow).
Design: Peter Buchanan-Smith, Josef Reyes
Photography: Gus Powell
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The Isaac Mizrahi studio “HI” lobby
Messages can come in the most concealed or the most obvious of places. When guests and employees walk out of the elevator into the Isaac Mizrahi lobby, they are greeted by a giant “HI”, disguised as part of his logo which we cropped from the original Mizrahi logo (designed by M & Co.). We added the color, and scale, repeating it as big as 12 feet, and as small as 3 inches, covering the 80 foot entrance wall.
Design: Peter Buchanan-Smith
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