Murals: Children's Book Press office space

During the dot-com boom, Children's Book Press had to move to a new office. It was difficult to find office space in the San Francisco rental market. The space they found was a bit odd and depressing being long and narrow. However, it had beautiful light. Harriet Rohmer (the publisher of Children's Book Press) asked me to enliven the space. We started by choosing 10 colors to paint the space. What could be more fun than walking to work on water? It gives you the sense you can do anything. So we painted a water walk. We also took characters out of some of the children's books and made wooden-cut outs which we painted and hung on the walls. We designed and had built a storage loft and painted the water pipes to be more festive extending their shape to create a mythological water-pipe beast. I had lots of excellent workers and volunteers and worked collaboratively with Harriet and the staff of Children's Book Press who also helped paint. It was a lot of fun and hard work, but it is now an exciting and magical place to be.

(That's my dear friend Mitch Myers working on the water walk)

Please visit Children's Book Press at their website

http://www.childrensbookpress.org

They are a wonderful organization creating beautiful and meaningful children's books