When South Puget Sound Community College decided to consolidate its student services into a newly remodeled building called 22 College Center, it wanted an interior environmental graphics program that would clearly identify departments, reflecting the school’s identity and the special qualities of its location.

SPSCC sits on 101 wooded acres in Olympia, Washington. The College Center is located at the heart of campus, and will house several departments, including student services, advising, and the library. We created a graphic program centered on an image of Evergreen trees, to reflect the college’s unique surroundings. This graphic appears throughout the building, calling out departments with a highly visible, tone-on-tone blue graphic band—a visually interesting way to integrate the school’s colors into the program.

One department that receives special graphic treatment is Student Services. The two-level building has an open central atrium, so the Student Services department on the second floor is visible from the lower level. The large-scale, eye-catching panel identifies the department and includes a typographic treatment listing the services offered.

By reinforcing the school’s identity through a clear department identification system, this program will help enhance the new building, creating a graphically interesting space that inspires school spirit.

Renovations will begin in December and the building, which is being designed by SRG Partnership, is slated for completion by July 2013.