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Established in 1982, Calori & Vanden-Eynden (C&VE) is an internationally-recognized, award-winning design firm specializing in the planning and design of signage, wayfinding, and identity programs for a wide variety of building types. With a client base that includes many of the world,s foremost architects, institutions, and developers, Calori & Vanden-Eynden has solidly built its reputation as one of the premier signage and environmental graphic design firms practicing today. Our devotion to design excellence spans the globe, from our work in Asia to our affiliation with Designalltag, a renowned European graphic design firm with offices in Zurich and Basel. With our collective global resources, we welcome multinational clients who are deeply committed to their products and services. C&VE is a creatively driven, design intensive firm and environmental graphic design is its passion. The firm,s work is distinguished by its stylistic diversity, with each design solution tailored to the particular communication needs and formal context of each project. C&VE,s sensitivity to context , together with its team approach to design , yields creative, visually distinctive graphic solutions that successfully respond to the specific needs of each site and client. C&VE views the client,s involvement as a key ingredient of the design process, and indeed, views design activity as meaningless without it. With its team approach, C&VE also successfully builds consensus among multiple stakeholders with disparate interests in large, complex projects. The firm purposely maintains a broad project mix, applying its talents to a wide range of facility and building types, including cultural, civic, commercial, educational, hospitality, retail, and transportation facilities. The firm,s working philosophy is grounded in an interdisciplinary approach that creatively integrates functional graphic solutions within the built environment. C&VE,s principals, Ms. Chris Calori and Mr. David Vanden-Eynden, each have over 25 years experience in solving signage and environmental graphic design problems. The principals pioneered services of master planning signage programs for large-scale, phased-implementation sites, and of formulating signage policy guidelines to promote an owner's interest in maintaining signage quality and equity over time and among many parties. C&VE,s diverse signage and wayfinding projects have been honored in the design awards programs sponsored by America,s top design organizations, including the Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD), Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), and the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA). The firm,s work has been recognized for excellence in national and international publications, and has been included in exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution,s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York,s Municipal Arts Society, the US Customs House in New York, and the AIGA National Design Gallery.