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September 2008 >> Jed Hotchkiss: Shenandoah Valley Mapmaker, a traveling exhibit designed by 1717, opens at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley and runs from September 19, 2008 to May 10, 2009. It is the first exhibit to focus exclusively on the maps created by Jed Hotchkiss, one of America's finest mapmakers. As a topographical engineer in the Second Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia, Hotchkiss was a familiar sight to Confederate soldiers in Virginia—“one leg cast over the pommel of his saddle … bending laboriously over his sketchbook and drawing curious lines on a scrap of paper.” His finished maps served Stonewall Jackson and other Confederate officers in planning their military strategy. Today his maps provide a vivid record of the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War and are admired for their remarkable accuracy and detail.
August 2008 >> 1717 Design is selected to prepare a master plan for the reinstallation of the Harrison Museum of African American Culture when they relocate to Center in the Square in Roanoke, Virginia.
July 2008 >> 1717 Design completed a series of twenty large four color offset posters that feature images and text from the popular SITES exhibition, Earth from Space, previously designed by 1717. The posters illustrate how satellite imagery is gathered and used to expand mankind’s understanding of life on Earth. For more information, visit the website.
April 2008 >> 1717 Design is commissioned to create a series of HeritageScape exhibits and related signage for the new Goodpaster Hall, Glendening Hall, and Muldoon River Center as part of the ongoing St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s Heritage Project. These interpretive exhibits are being planned to bring contemporary meaning to the civic legacies of Historic St. Mary’s City, the colonial capital of Maryland.
Spring 2008 >> 1717 Design is pleased to be called upon again to develop a wide range of projects for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation as they continue to update and enhance their guest experience. Recent projects include new orientation and marketing graphics for the Visitor Center; new signage and banners for the Visitor Center campus, automated ticketing kiosks in the Visitor Center; a master plan for improving signage in and around the Henry Street Shops at Merchants Square; and a new logo and banners to celebrate the Fifes and Drums’ 50th Anniversary.
March 2008 >> Orientation and promotional exhibits at the new East Coast Gateway Welcome Center located on I-64E in New Kent County are unveiled to the public. Created by 1717 Design, the exhibits detail the rich history and boundless activities found in America’s Historic Triangle: the Birthplace of American Democracy.
March 2008 >> O. Winston Link Museum in Roanoke, Virginia opens a new darkroom diorama exhibit designed by 1717. The diorama features O. Winston Link's original darkroom equipment and interpretive graphics about film developing and the enlarging/printing process.
November 2007 >> 1717 is selected to design the interpretive exhibits and retail galleries at Heartwood: Southwest Virginia’s Artisan Gateway, the new $16 million, 29,000 SF facility that will overlook Interstate 81 in Abingdon, Virginia. It will promote the talents of the region's diverse artisan community while serving as the regional welcome center, enticing visitors to explore and support the wealth of cultural, natural and commercial attractions located in Southwest Virginia.
October 2007 >> 1717 is selected to create corporate exhibits and wayfinding signage for the new 85,000 SF expansion and renovation of the Luck Stone Corporate Headquarters in Goochland County, Virginia. When completed in 2008, the lobby will be transformed into a iconic floor-to-ceiling stone quarry that appears to emerge from the custom wood paneling in the main corridor where a monumental 40-foot-long graphic mural will be executed in cherry veneers. Backlit graphics and touchscreen interactives will provide an interpretive introduction to Luck Stone’s four major business divisions. A primary site sign, vehicular and pedestrian directional signs, ADA compliant interior signs and a series of highly detailed conference room and coffee bar signs will also be designed for the project.
October 2007 >> The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City reopens the updated American Cowboy Gallery, originally designed by The 1717 Design Group in 1999. Working with the original curator, 1717 created several new media displays, artifact cases and hands-on children's exhibits on the ranching industry designed to complement the original exhibit environment.
October 2007 >> St. Mary’s College of Maryland opens “Common Ground,” a Maryland Heritage Project honoring General Andrew Jackson Goodpaster, advisor to presidents, NATO commander, Superintendent of the US Military Academy at West Point and trustee of St. Mary’s College. 1717 Design created two large dimensional HeritageScape panels, fitted with wall-mount artifact cases and a video presentation, for the lobby of the new Goodpaster Hall.
September 2007 >> 1717 collaborates with Hill Studio to develop an exhibit master plan for C&O Railroad Heritage Center in Clifton Forge, Virginia.
April 2007 >> 1717 is selected to design a comprehensive series of signage systems for the City of Roanoke’s urban, suburban and front-country parks, greenways, trails and open spaces.
March 2007 >> 1717 is selected to design the first phase of a comprehensive wayfinding and interpretive signage system for the Frontier Culture Museum in Staunton, Virginia. The scope of work includes the redesign of their current identity.
February 2007 >> The Introductory Gallery, designed by The 1717 Design Group, officially opens to the public. With the construction of 10,400 SF of new folk art exhibition space, The Museums of Colonial Williamsburg now combines The DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum under one roof. The new Introductory Gallery provides visitors with an introduction to the two collections along with orientation graphics and a video display of current activities and programs.
January 2007 >> Two thematic exhibits designed by The 1717 Design Group, Capturing Robert E. Lee—In Life and Memory and Robert E. Lee…and the Women in his Life, opened at Stratford Hall Plantation during the Robert E. Lee 200th Birthday Celebration on January 19–21, 2007.
January 2007 >> To commemorate America’s 400th anniversary and the founding of Jamestown, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation commissioned 1717 to design the new 5,000 SF Jamestown 2007 Regional Welcome Center located in the Colonial Williamsburg Visitor Center. 1717 reconfigured the Williamsburg Visitor Center that they designed in 2000 to incorporate Welcome Center exhibits focusing on the regional attractions of the Historic Triangle partners, Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown.
November 2006 >> Pounds, Pence & Pistareens: The Coins and Currency of Colonial America, a temporary exhibit designed by The 1717 Design Group features over 500 examples of colonial era coins and paper currency. This fasinating exhibit examining the money in the pockets and purses of our colonial ancestors opened at the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum in Colonial Williamsburg.
November 2006 >> Earth from Space, a traveling exhibit organized by SITES (Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibits Services) and designed by The 1717 Design Group, opened at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. The exhibit, consisting of full-color graphics and satellite imagery on 41 banner stands, will travel to 15 cities in the next 3 years. For more information, visit www.sites.si.edu
August 2006 >> Raymond Loewy, Designer for a Modern Era opened in the public gallery of the Norfolk & Western Passenger Station in Roanoke, Virginia. Lowey, considered by many to be the "father of industrial design," redesigned the station in 1947. The 1717 Design Group worked with the O. Winston Link Museum to create the exhibit as well as illuminated signage and banners for the lobby.
