Wayfinding designers often employ color-coding to help organize information. But usually, such colors have no intrinsic meaning, only learned associations, i.e., the colors differentiating levels in a parking garage. Other colors have strong associations with expected or desired behaviors. Here we have both the learned meaning blue, for accessible parking… Read more »
Bike racks come in all shapes and sizes, but this one is a call-to-action sign. The elegant READ BOOKS letters mounted in the plaza at Salt Lake City’s new library not only function as bicycle racks and invite you to read, but also form an engaging civic sculpture.
This two-foot fireplug is protected by a massive steel enclosure nearly nine feet tall and almost as wide. And with the freshly painted high-visibility yellow paint, we think the little fireplug is safe from attack by everything from Mitsubishis to Mack Trucks.
Most wayfinding signage is deployed at eye level or above. But in certain situations the ground plane can be used to good effect. Here, in the confusing underground passages beneath Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, floor wayfinding is not only effective, but necessary.