Play encourages exploration and innovation. It challenges us to expand our thinking. And it helps us understand how end-users will experience and engage with others in a space.

Katy Blander has a fantastic view of the blue sky from her work table and counts the hours until she can go outside with the dog on this beautiful day. Where else does she find joy?

Despite all the downs 2020 provided us with, we wanted to celebrate our ups!

Designing safe and welcoming places for a post-quarantine world.

An interview with Metcalfe’s Senior Exhibit Designer, Katy Blander. Katy came to the Metcalfe team in 2012, continuing a 20-year career in exhibition design and interactive and print graphics. Katy’s creative talents extend outside the office. She is a children’s book illustrator and a textile artist, and has a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance from Temple University, occasionally dusting off the keyboard for fun.

From Germantown to Devil’s Pocket, Mt. Airy to Manayunk, the Metcalfe staff has a clear appreciation of Philadelphia’s neighborhoods and eccentricities – and a deep love for the place they work and (most of us) live.