Shady Side Academy

For Shady Side Academy's new Rockwell Middle School in Fox Chapel, which opened in January 2026, Kolano Design developed interior signage and wall graphics that tell the school's story. Working from the Academy's brand guidelines, Kolano designed a history timeline wall, donor recognition and entrance graphics, alongside a full set of interior room and ADA signs. For the stair and hub murals, Kolano worked with artist Greg Valley, who designed and painted them, providing design direction so the murals bring color and identity to the building's open, light-filled spaces.

Kolano Design created the signage for the McIlroy Center for Science and Innovation at Shady Side Academy's Senior School in Fox Chapel. The work includes the building letters and a freestanding identification sign outside, interior room and wayfinding signs with stair icons drawn from the periodic table, named space and donor plaques, and a colorful donor recognition wall of layered discs.

Kolano Design created the exterior signage and donor recognition for the Gene Deal Fields at Shady Side Academy, the multi-sport turf complex on the Senior School campus in Fox Chapel named for the Academy's longtime athletic director. Kolano designed field identification and a donor wall honoring the supporters of the $1.75 million project, sized to read from the grandstand and pavilion.