MAKING PLACES BETTER FOR OUR WORLD
Wayfinding • Experiential Graphic Design
Partnering with visionary leaders to create distinctive places for health
Shannon Leigh Associates provides Wayfinding and Signage Design for built environments. Strategic wayfinding consultants create placemaking to enhance designs for architects, healthcare and educational campuses, government, residential, hospitality, and civic markets. Specializing in designing signage programs sensitive to safety, equity, accessibility and elevating the user experience, the company has designed wayfinding programs for 15 years.
PROJECTS WE’RE PROUD OF
Shannon Leigh showed us that it was possible to make a campus with three different centuries of architecture seamless with strong placemaking.
Tosan Boyo, SVP John Muir Health
Former COO, Zuckerberg General
Healthcare
Zuckerberg San Francisco General
An ongoing, multi-year transformation of the patient campus experience focused on research, strategy and design to re-envision ZSFG as a place. Work includes: wayfinding, information hierarchy, district zones and amenities, with the purpose of honoring the community and fostering radical inclusivity.
Leveraging a deep understanding of higher education, the signage makes our campuses more beautiful and functional.
Karen Powell, Former Director, Facilities Maintenance and Operations
Education
San Mateo Community College District
Comprehensive placemaking and wayfinding program to support a major, $400 million+ bond initiative to modernize infrastructure for the entire district. Work included campus-specific signage programs for College of San Mateo, Canada College and Skyline College, supported by signage guideline manuals and construction management services.
Shannon Leigh’s work respects our history, reinforces our mission and inspires our guests.
David Allen, Design Director
Hospitality
1440 Multiversity
Placemaking that integrates beautiful architecture seamlessly with the Santa Cruz mountains to create a learning destination where discovery and creativity flourish. Scope included research, naming buildings with indigenous names and creating a wayfinding system that creates a peaceful experience for learning.
Shannon Leigh worked with us to design a creative signage package that turned out
beautifully and fit within our budget.
Rick Price, Director of Development
Residential
Raintree Partners - Encasa
Design and build of interior and exterior wayfinding program for Encasa, a residential development created with the intention of making an apartment feel like a home.
Bringing big hearts and imaginative design, Shannon Leigh’s team made the renovation of our space come alive!
Kimberly Pace, CEO
Non-Profit
Boys & Girls Clubs of America
Shannon Leigh is a major donor to Boys and Girls Clubs, contributing pro bono placemaking design to renovate a very old clubhouse. This passion project brings to life our value of radical inclusivity, delivering first-class design to create a place where all San Leandro kids feel special and welcome.
Shannon Leigh understands how to make judicial buildings work seamlessly for everyone who uses them.
Rona Rothenberg, Former Sr. Mgr.
State of California, Judicial Council of California
Government
East County Hall of Justice
Partnered with Hensel Phelps Construction and Fentress Architects to program and design interior exterior signage for East Country Hall of Justice.
ACCOLADES & CERTIFICATIONS
Shannon Leigh is a certified woman-owned business.
We are committed to environmental sustainability in our company’s operations, and to being good environmental citizens in our community.
To work with Zuckerberg General, we met the stringent requirements to be a vendor to the City and County of San Francisco.
Approved by the U.S. General Services Administration to work on projects on federal property, including courthouses and administrative offices.
Evidence-Based Design Accreditation & Certification. We develop design solutions rooted in research to help our clients achieve their desired goals and contribute to the health, safety and wellbeing of the user.
Certified by the Alameda County Small, Local and Emerging Business program for supplier diversity on County construction and design projects.
Certified by WBENC as a woman-owned business, recognized by corporate and government leaders for supplier diversity and inclusion.