FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 2, 2007
SEGD Names Fellows for 2007
Washington, DC The Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD) announced the
selection of Chris Calori and David Vanden-Eynden, founders and principals of Calori &
Vanden-Eynden/Design Consultants in New York City, as the 2007 SEGD Fellows. C&VE is
an internationally-recognized, award-winning design firm specializing is the planning and
design of signage, wayfinding, and identity programs for a wide variety of facility types.
Fellows are selected for promoting the highest values in environmental graphic design,
and significantly contributing to the direction and growth of the field. Past SEGD Fellows
include Garry Emery, Richard Poulin, Wayne Hunt, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott
Brown, Ivan Chermayeff and Tom Geismar, and Massimo Vignelli.
Chris and David began working on freelance projects in 1981 and started their firm
in 1982, making this year the firm’s 25th anniversary. They met as students in the
Department of Industrial Design at Ohio State, then moved to San Francisco, and finally
settled in New York City. Environmental graphic design and signage in particular has
been their firm’s focus from the start, along with some identity work and a little print
work. Their work is distinguished by its stylistic diversity, with each design solution tailored
to the particular communication needs and formal context of each project. Says
Chris, “We approach design from a modernist perspective while consciously avoiding a
formulaic, signature style.”
Before forming C&VE, Chris focused on design and management of signage programs
for some of America’s leading design firms, including Chermayeff & Geismar Associates,
Bonnell Design Associates, and Primo Angeli Graphics. She developed C&VE’s effective
“Signage Pyramid” methodology for signage program design and management, as well
as the firm’s pioneering service of master planning signage programs for large-scale,
phased-implementation sites. Author of Signage and Wayfinding Design: A Complete
Guide to Creating Environmental Graphic Design Systems, Chris has also written for a
number of other publications.
In his early professional years, David focused on signage design with the leading firms of
Lance Wyman Ltd. and Primo Angeli Graphics; he also provided design consultation services
to MetaForm, Gottschalk & Ash International, and Frankfurt Balkind + Associates.
David was instrumental in developing C&VE’s techniques for conceptualizing, detailing,
and documenting the physical components of sign programs, and coordinates the details
of large-scale signage projects.
While their most exciting award was the IDSA/Business Week Gold IDEA Award for the
Amtrak Acela specialty signage program, Chris and David’s work has received numerous
awards from SEGD, AIA, IDSA, AIGA, and the City of New York; has been featured in multiple
national and international periodicals and books; and has been included in exhibitions
at the Smithsonian Institution’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York’s
Municipal Arts Society, and the AIGA National Design Gallery.
Chris’s connection with SEGD began while she was a graduate student. She made a deal
to swap her Master’s thesis for admission to the SEGD conference. Says David, “Since
SEGD was started by a bunch of guys doing ‘signing’, we’re strong advocates of SEGD’s
support of its members who practice SEGD’s core competency: signage and wayfinding
design.”
Notable C&VE projects over the years include the Washington, DC Citywide Wayfinding
& Signage Program; Amtrak Acela Specialty Station Signage, Northeast Corridor Stations;
Suzhou International Expo Centre, Suzhou, China; Connect 12 Pedestrian Bridge System
Signage Program, Central Hong Kong; City of Tianjin Riverfront Wayfinding and Heritage
Trail Signage System, China; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland, OH; ABC
Broadcasting Headquarters, New York; The Landmark Tower, Abu Dhabi, UAE; Crate &
Barrel World Headquarters; Northbrook, IL; Washington DC Heritage Trail Signage System;
Virginia Beach Convention Center; Inventure Place/National Inventors Hall of Fame, Akron,
OH; One Raffles Link and One Raffles Quay, Singapore; Azia Center and Super Brand Mall,
Shanghai, China.
Chris and David will accept their awards at the SEGD 2007 Annual Conference & Expo,
which takes place May 30-June 2, 2007 in Boston, MA.
About SEGD
SEGD is an international non-profit educational organization providing resources for
design specialists in the field of environmental graphic design, architecture, and landscape,
interior, and industrial design. SEGD members are leading designers of directional
and attraction sign systems, destination graphics, identity programs, exhibits, and themed
environments.
Environmental Graphic Design embraces many design disciplines including graphic,
architectural, interior, landscape, and industrial design, all concerned with the visual
aspects of wayfinding, communicating identity and information, and shaping the idea of
place.
SEGD
1000 Vermont Ave NW, Suite 400
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: 202 638-5555
E-Mail: ann@segd.org
Website URL: www.segd.org
