There are many reasons for wanting to prevent guests from accessing back of house areas – particularly within the hospitality, restaurant and leisure sectors. But when you’ve invested in creating a welcoming and inviting environment, placing official looking prohibitive signs… Read More »Restricting Access to Back of House by Design – Without Alienating Guests
Finding your way round large complex festival sites can be challenging – here’s some practical guidance to help increase the effectiveness of festival wayfinding.
How many times have you been in a briefing meeting for a new wayfinding project, only to discover there’s a significant gap between the client’s vision and the budget allocated to the signs package? In this post we discuss a… Read More »How to Calculate a Realistic Budget for a Wayfinding Signage Project
Seeking feedback from a range of different perspectives is an important part of the design review process. However, when you’re busy juggling competing priorities, or up against deadlines that could have financial consequences if missed, it can be difficult to… Read More »Design, Review, Revise, Repeat
With the emphasis in design consultancy tending to be on the new and innovative, we’ve come to expect detailed design reports and strategies; multi-component product specifications and manufacturing lead times spanning several months. But sometimes low tech solutions, that just… Read More »Great Example of Low Tech Wayfinding Design
Beyond the aesthetics, colour has an important functional role in wayfinding design. Colour is often used to distinguish between floor levels, routes and different activity zones. For many people, colour offers a very clear and easy to follow intuitive cue… Read More »Signage Design for Colour Blindness
A few weeks ago I set off from home in West London on a 25km circular walk. Following paths and trails, flanked by trees, waterways and open spaces. With London’s reputation as one of the world’s most congested cities -… Read More »Green Route Wayfinding
It’s one of those conundrums – you’re going out to tender because you don’t have the internal expertise to fulfil an identified need. Yet for cost surety and ensure you hire the best person for the job, you need to… Read More »Wayfinding Project Scope
If you’re about to procure or project manage a wayfinding project for the first time, this article will help you understand what to expect during the development process.
To maintain the integrity of the investment, it is important that your wayfinding information is updated to reflect any changes to building structures, brand identities and use of space. Rather than introduce another layer of information or limit attention to… Read More »Why You Need a Wayfinding Audit and How To Go About It
