Pentagram’s Abbott Miller created the environmental design for Centro Roberto Garza Sada, the handsome arts centre at the Universidad de Monterrey. I love the sleek white design system and how it contrasts with the stark grey walls. But it is his donor recognition installation that I am mesmerized by. Names of donors are engraved on polished Plexiglas rods and hung at different lengths to create a sculptural installation. As the light changes throughout the day, the Plexiglas pieces turn into ever-changing prisms, shifting in the air and casting rainbow light across the stark concrete space. Proof that donor recognition can go from dull to downright dreamy in the right hands…
(photographs via pentagram)