THE HUMAN FACE OF WAR

Focusing on the people involved in war, the environmental graphics designed for FHCAM’s newest hangar bring an overarching, stage-setting level of storytelling to displays of aircraft and armored vehicles.

Project:
Hangar 3 environmental graphics

Gallery Type:
Immersive graphic treatment for 32,000 sq.-ft. hangar full of aircraft and armored vehicles

Our Role:
Exhibit content and graphic design conception, development and implementation

Project Partners:
Flying Heritage and Combat Armor Museum (FHCAM), Everett, WA; Northwest building tech inc., Seattle, WA; Imagine, Seattle, WA

Photos:
BRADY HARVEY

Setting the Stage

In a hallway leading into the new hangar are graphics that quickly establish the focus of the space beyond.

Everyday Heroes

Figures on the working doors of the hangar offer a monumental yet humanizing backdrop for aircraft.

Candid Moments

Images capturing the day-to-day lives of soldiers in wartime enliven walls of built-out rooms of the hangar.

Hanging Banners

Above a collection of armored vehicles are insignia symbolic of those who manned them.