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What if we told you that 2020 Wayfinding + Placemaking NOW will feature a virtual tour of the High Line in New York City, by none other than SEGD Fellow Paula Scher herself, the brains behind the design?! Hold onto your swivel chairs ladies and gents; it's happening!
Hulu launched its new series adaption of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” the dystopian classic by Margaret Atwood. Pentagram designed a new interactive public art installation to celebrates the series by distributing 4,000 free copies of the book. The project was displayed in a high-profile location at the High Line in New York.
The novel is set in Gilead, a future theocracy where women have been stripped of their rights and subjugated into roles as “handmaids” used expressly for procreation.
Look no further than Paris' Promenade plantée, which was completed in 1993, to see where the trend of converting obsolete railways into beautiful urban green spaces originated. The real urban renewal linear park boom, however, happened in this century.
