713 Music Hall
Overview
Houston, TX
43,000 ft.² renovation
Brief
Services
Navigation planning, signage and graphic design
Updates
Supplemental Messaging
Project Documentation
Completed work for Live Nation with OMA, Dot Dash, and Harvey Builders
Fabricated and installed by GraphTec, Vann Sign & Light, and Innovative Environments
Photographs by Mickey Aloisio
Neon Mockup
—custom tube supports, insulators, and wiring
—mirror blackout paint
🔗 True Colors Neon
🔗 Vann Sign and Light
Material Testing & Mockups
Studying: Material Utility
Studying: Light
Exploring the use of light as a wayfinding mechanism in venue spaces. Light can be used (alongside or, oftentimes, instead of signage) to magnetize visitors to specific destinations; to create or reinforce desired paths of travel through a space; or to give sub-spaces unique visual tone. Light in the venue is also often defined by its dynamism, moving and changing in accordance with music.
Studying: The Theater
Exploring how wayfinding and way-showing mechanisms have evolved in the theater.
Announcement of Work
FORMATION will design wayfinding and signage for a new music venue set to open in downtown Houston in 2021.