Monument Health Hospital reached out to BWBR to refresh their interior graphics. The hope was interactive, playful, and colorful graphics for the children that reflected their South Dakota landscape and wildlife. The total scope included 72 patient room wall graphics, 72 patient custom care boards, 3 lobby graphics per floor, 1 graphic for the cafe, and a directional map for each floor.
I began with the overall floor plans to look at how we could layout the artwork and how we could group the animals in their habitats to help with wayfinding in the space. I began to design with the “Wetlands” being the first floor, the “Grasslands” being the second floor, and the “Forest Floor” as the third floor. This helped to break out the different animals and visualize how patients would navigate through the space.
Next, I started designing various design styles for the client to get a feel of the style they were hoping for. This started with the three main lobby graphics for each habitat floor. Once the main design direction was chosen by the client, I was able to expand that style to create the 23 patient rooms on the second floor, the custom care boards for each room, and the cafe space graphics.
Each habitat lobby graphic has circular cut outs that include a variety of animals from its corresponding habitat to be a “Seek and Find” game for children to have a positive distraction as they were in the corridor space.
Lastly, the directional map graphic was designed to have LED light backing once installed to highlight the habitat on each floor.