Town of Sutton
Environmental
Signs
A series of environmental wayfinding and interpretive signs designed for the Town of Sutton, each one built to sit in its landscape, communicate clearly, and hold up in the field.
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Veteran's Field
Park
A pair of interpretive signs for the park. The first traces the history of the site, while the second is a climate-change sign that lays out the on-site water-management strategies used to make the park more resilient to heavy rain and a changing climate.
Van Dyke
Park
Three signs for a playground renovation: two educational panels geared toward kids covering sustainable building, the benefits of trees, and water filtration methods; a broader climate change sign featuring local and global animals affected by shifting conditions; and a donor recognition sign for the companies that funded the project. The design leans into a bright earth-tone palette, with animal illustrations generated in Adobe Firefly.
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Marion's
Camp
From roughly 1920 to 1985, the town beach at Sutton's Marion Pond served as a summer camp for the Camp Fire Girls. To honor that history, we worked directly with women who had attended as girls in the '60s, '70s, and '80s, gathering their stories, photos, and memories. The result was four signs: three covering different facets of camp life (Council Fire ceremonies, a "Day in the Life," camper quotes, symbols, songs, and earned badges) and a fourth serving as a trail map of the current site.
Mumford River
Trail
A pair of interpretive signs along a walking trail in Manchaug, MA, telling the story of the Manchaug Mills, the original home of Fruit of the Loom. The content traced the company's history, the mill buildings themselves, and the community that grew up around them to support the factory workers. The archival photos were old and faded, so rather than fight that quality, I leaned into it: converting the mill images to greyscale and treating them as large graphic elements. Serif type throughout kept the feeling grounded and period-appropriate.
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Shaw
Farm
A sign and brochure pairing built around a color-coded walking trail map, with a layer of land history woven in alongside it. The base map came from the town's GIS software; I built out the trail key and overlay in Illustrator. The historical content is structured as a timeline: each owner of the land listed in chronological order, spanning over a century of use. Greens were pulled from the town's school colors, with supporting design elements drawn from the visual language of farmland.