Gratefish Storm Drain

Agency

Mauk Design

Practice Area

Client

Grate Drains

Industry

Project Vision

This design for San Francisco’s streets was meant to solve the ongoing problem of people dumping automobile oil into the storm drains and polluting San Francisco Bay. Stenciled warnings near existing drains, the designer felt, need constant maintenance and do little to deter people who already know they shouldn’t dump. The proposed grate, shaped like a fish, would graphically challenge people by making their dirty deed concrete: dumping oil on a fish.

 

Project Details
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Juror 1
Design Team

Mitchell Mauk, Laurence Raines

Design Firm

Mauk Design

Fabricators

Ariston