Subway Library
Initiative between The New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library, Queens Library, the MTA, and Transit Wireless that provided subway riders in New York City with free access to hundreds of e-books, excerpts, and short stories—all ready to read on the train.
As part of the Subway Library celebration, a specially wrapped "Library Train," with the interior designed to look like NYPL's Rose Main Reading Room ran on the E and F lines, running through Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens.
ROLE
Art Direction
CREATIVE PARTNERS
HvD Design, MTA In-house Design
Subway Library
Initiative between The New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library, Queens Library, the MTA, and Transit Wireless that provided subway riders in New York City with free access to hundreds of e-books, excerpts, and short stories—all ready to read on the train.
As part of the Subway Library celebration, a specially wrapped "Library Train," with the interior designed to look like NYPL's Rose Main Reading Room ran on the E and F lines, running through Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens.
ROLE
Art Direction
CREATIVE PARTNERS
HvD Design, MTA In-house Design
Subway Library
Subway Library
Initiative between The New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library, Queens Library, the MTA, and Transit Wireless that provided subway riders in New York City with free access to hundreds of e-books, excerpts, and short stories—all ready to read on the train.
As part of the Subway Library celebration, a specially wrapped "Library Train," with the interior designed to look like NYPL's Rose Main Reading Room ran on the E and F lines, running through Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens.
ROLE
Art Direction
CREATIVE PARTNERS
HvD Design, MTA In-house Design
ROLE
Art Direction
CREATIVE PARTNERS
HvD Design, MTA In-house Design
Subway Library
Initiative between The New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library, Queens Library, the MTA, and Transit Wireless that provided subway riders in New York City with free access to hundreds of e-books, excerpts, and short stories—all ready to read on the train.
As part of the Subway Library celebration, a specially wrapped "Library Train," with the interior designed to look like NYPL's Rose Main Reading Room ran on the E and F lines, running through Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens.
ROLE
Art Direction
CREATIVE PARTNERS
HvD Design, MTA In-house Design
Initiative between The New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library, Queens Library, the MTA, and Transit Wireless that provided subway riders in New York City with free access to hundreds of e-books, excerpts, and short stories—all ready to read on the train.
As part of the Subway Library celebration, a specially wrapped "Library Train," with the interior designed to look like NYPL's Rose Main Reading Room ran on the E and F lines, running through Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens.
Subway Library
Initiative between The New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library, Queens Library, the MTA, and Transit Wireless that provided subway riders in New York City with free access to hundreds of e-books, excerpts, and short stories—all ready to read on the train.
As part of the Subway Library celebration, a specially wrapped "Library Train," with the interior designed to look like NYPL's Rose Main Reading Room ran on the E and F lines, running through Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens.
ROLE
Art Direction
CREATIVE PARTNERS
HvD Design, MTA In-house Design
Subway Library
Initiative between The New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library, Queens Library, the MTA, and Transit Wireless that provided subway riders in New York City with free access to hundreds of e-books, excerpts, and short stories—all ready to read on the train.
As part of the Subway Library celebration, a specially wrapped "Library Train," with the interior designed to look like NYPL's Rose Main Reading Room ran on the E and F lines, running through Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens.
ROLE
Art Direction
CREATIVE PARTNERS
HvD Design, MTA In-house Design
Subway Library
Initiative between The New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library, Queens Library, the MTA, and Transit Wireless that provided subway riders in New York City with free access to hundreds of e-books, excerpts, and short stories—all ready to read on the train.
As part of the Subway Library celebration, a specially wrapped "Library Train," with the interior designed to look like NYPL's Rose Main Reading Room ran on the E and F lines, running through Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens.
Subway Library
Initiative between The New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library, Queens Library, the MTA, and Transit Wireless that provided subway riders in New York City with free access to hundreds of e-books, excerpts, and short stories—all ready to read on the train.
As part of the Subway Library celebration, a specially wrapped "Library Train," with the interior designed to look like NYPL's Rose Main Reading Room ran on the E and F lines, running through Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens.
Subway Library
Initiative between The New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library, Queens Library, the MTA, and Transit Wireless that provided subway riders in New York City with free access to hundreds of e-books, excerpts, and short stories—all ready to read on the train.
As part of the Subway Library celebration, a specially wrapped "Library Train," with the interior designed to look like NYPL's Rose Main Reading Room ran on the E and F lines, running through Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens.
Subway Library
Initiative between The New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library, Queens Library, the MTA, and Transit Wireless that provided subway riders in New York City with free access to hundreds of e-books, excerpts, and short stories—all ready to read on the train.
As part of the Subway Library celebration, a specially wrapped "Library Train," with the interior designed to look like NYPL's Rose Main Reading Room ran on the E and F lines, running through Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens.
Subway Library
Initiative between The New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library, Queens Library, the MTA, and Transit Wireless that provided subway riders in New York City with free access to hundreds of e-books, excerpts, and short stories—all ready to read on the train.
As part of the Subway Library celebration, a specially wrapped "Library Train," with the interior designed to look like NYPL's Rose Main Reading Room ran on the E and F lines, running through Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens.
ROLE
Art Direction
CREATIVE PARTNERS
HvD Design, MTA In-house Design
ROLE
Art Direction
CREATIVE PARTNERS
HvD Design, MTA In-house Design
ROLE
Art Direction
CREATIVE PARTNERS
HvD Design, MTA In-house Design

THE POLONSKY EXHIBITION OF THE
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY’S TREASURES
For 125 years, the Library has collected, safeguarded, and made accessible the world’s history, stewarding more than 46 million items that tell incredible stories and inspire the millions who visit each year.
The Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library’s Treasures is a permanent exhibition that brings to life and makes accessible like never before the most cherished Library holdings and the historical stories behind them.
Developed in partnership with key stakeholders, the exhibition’s identity was applied across a robust campaign. The array of signage and promotional pieces included room and wayfinding signs, in-gallery digital screens, building and street pole banners along 5th Avenue, a month-long Subway domination at Union Square that reached an average of 2.8 million New Yorkers, posters, brochures, ads (in outlets including The New York Times in print and online, The New Yorker, and the New York Review of Books), merchandise, and numerous web and social assets.
ROLE
Creative Direction, Art Direction
(Exhibition Identity, Promotional Materials, Signage)
EXHIBITION DESIGN & IDENTITY
Pure&Applied
GALLERY ENTRANCE SIGNAGE
Beyer Blinder Belle
IN-HOUSE DESIGN LEAD
Maya Sari-Ahmed, Rosalene Labrado-Perillo
EDITOR
Julia Joseph
SELECT PRESS
The New York Times, The New York Daily News, The New York Post, amNY, The Wall Street Journal

































