mural blog

Design For Living

Several years back, Stadtlanders Pharmacy hired us to produce these murals for a retail outlet they had opened in New York City on 8th Avenue in Chelsea.  Stadtlanders pharmacies focus on providing care to patients with chronic medical conditons such as HIV/AIDS, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, hepatitis, etc.

With that focus, they are a care provider that specializes in managing conditions so that patients can reduce the impact of their medical condition and focus more on living life.

I think the inclusion of murals at this store, along with the rest of the design which is warm and contemporary, really helps to communicate their message.

These days, most pharmacies are fairly impersonal places at the back of large consumer drugstore chains such as Rite-Aid or Duane Reade.

The murals we created help to make Stadtlanders a place that is noticably different - a place that shows it cares about the health of the people who pass through its doors, and a place that suggests our individual health can be affected by the bigger picture - society at large, and the communities we live in.

While I certainly can't comment about Stadtlanders business as a whole, I definitely applaud the integration of design into Stadtlanders mission as exemplified at this store, and only wish the whole healthcare industry could see that design can help make an increasingly profit driven and impersonal business into an industry that is, once again, about people first.

The inclusion of art suggests the kind of outside factors that can influence our day to day wellness!

A Good Night's Sleep

It's Monday here at Silver Hill, and as usual on Mondays, I wish I had gotten more sleep last night.  Well, if I didn't sleep like a prince, at least I can rest well knowing one of our clients slept like a princess.  The above picture show a ceiling mural of a sky through a rose trellis we did for one room in a client's home.  With the lovely furnishings, the mural completes the room to create a perfectly romantic atmosphere.  Who wouldn't sleep well in such a "dreamy" room?

Seasonal Affective Disorder

Click picture to enlarge....

Today in New York was cold, wet, and grey.

But artists can fix things like that...

You want happy?  Try this one for happy....

This is a mural we created for the fashion label 'Moschino'.  It was painted for their New York City showroom, and it always gives me a smile to look at.  Moschino was a really fun client (we did work for their store as well).  Always pushing the boundries - always doing something unexpected and unusual.  Clients like these can be challenging, but you often do your best work for them.

This mural was a hand-painted rendering of a sunflower, and the 'smile face' was gold leaf on top of the paint (you can see the smile more clearly in the reflection in the mirror to the right of the mural)

Spring seems so so far away.......