Hoen & Co Lithography Building - Environmental Graphics
THE BRIEF Cross Street Partners needed a large-scale wallpaper installation for the second floor of the Center for Neighborhood Innovation - formerly the historic A. Hoen & Co Lithography Building in Baltimore. The design had to be bold and contemporary while honoring the building's extraordinary history as America's longest-operating lithographer.
PARTNERS Cross Street Partners: Client, Juan Rodas: Print Production, Alpha Graphics. Photos: Tiffany Thompson.
Environmental Graphic Design · Art Direction · Print Design · Archival Research
THE CHALLENGE The tension at the heart of this project was architectural and historical: how do you create something that reads as an original work of art while remaining in true service to a 130-year legacy? The source material, archival lithographs produced in the building itself, was rich but fragile, and the installation needed to feel alive in a modern mixed-use space without erasing what made the building meaningful.
Original lithographs
MY ROLE Working with Cross Street Partners and Alpha Graphics, I developed the full design concept - curating imagery from the original lithograph archive, composing the wallpaper layout, directing color treatment, and managing production through to installation. The final piece was printed on Phototex by Juan Rodas at Alpha Graphics.
THE RESULT The installed wallpaper transforms a second-floor corridor into an immersive piece of Baltimore design history - giving the building's new tenants a daily connection to the craft that happened in that exact space for over a century.
