The BOK Building
Scope
Environmental Graphics
Iconography
Motion
Scope
Environmental Graphics
Iconography
Motion
Studio
Smith & Diction
Smith & Diction
The BOK Building is a South Philly workspace home to over 150 creative businesses, ranging from jewelry makers to tattoo artists, developers to animators, architects to printers, a bakery, and even a doggy daycare. More than just a shared physical space, the building is a hub for creative conversation and collaboration between tenants—and that makes being at BOK a delightful, welcoming experience for tenants and visitors alike.
With multiple entrances and covering a whole city block, BOK needed a way to direct its visitors clearly and visibly from the outside, while offering a glimpse of the vibrant creative atmosphere happening on the inside. I designed two colorful and friendly exterior signage pieces that were installed on the “building blocks” at the building‘s main entrance.
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Photo: Sam Oberter
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