Signs/Wayfinding

After finally deciding to throw my typeface to one side and use a better pre-existing typeface I started thinking about how it could be applied around the college. I quite liked this idea of using panels to print the name of the exhibition on which could be displayed along a corridor/hallway or within the entrance/above the entrance. It would be a quite bold approach and I think it could work really well, especially if the panels were quite deep themselves.

I thought about how the letters could fit within the space and whether the curves of the panels should mimic the shape of the letters, or whether the sizes should be adjusted. I think it's quite interesting but if you look at just the letters and not take into account the panels it looks like bad typography and perhaps a bit cliche.

Also thinking about the size of the letters in relation to the size of the panels and whether the panels themselves are solid or hollow.

In terms of actual directionals I wondered how this would be applied to course areas and whether this would be too much...I later decided to use a more simplified version for the directionals.

orientation of the panels? how much can you see at each stage of the route?



More simplified method of signs, probably more practical and less time consuming.





Taking elements from the type and making arrows. I think now looking back at it it could probably do with having more space, it seems a bit too condensed.






Although you can't really see it, on the left here is an idea I was developing with was to start of the word at the beginning of the design/making process and then build up on it until at the end it was a more polished version. However it was taking a long time and I didn't really have time to push this idea further without compromising the rest of the brief.