Design Award
Gratefish Storm Drain
Location
Conceptual
Design Firm
Mauk Design
Client
Grate Drains
Design Team
Mitchell Mauk, Laurence Raines
Fabricators
Ariston
This design for San Francisco's streets was meant to solve the ongoing problem of people dumping automobile oil into the storm drains and polluting San Francisco Bay. Stenciled warnings near existing drains, the designer felt, need constant maintenance and do little to deter people who already know they shouldn't dump. The proposed grate, shaped like a fish, would graphically challenge people by making their dirty deed concrete: dumping oil on a fish.