Archives: Events
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Danish wayfinding & typography: leading the way to hidden treasures at the Designmuseum and beyond
Date: 30 September 2021 Denmark-based Urgent.Agency explained their approach to wayfinding and place activation at the Designmuseum Copenhagen and share ideas on how typography has evolved in response to wayfinding needs. This was a fascinating talk about Danish design history and legacy, a unique museum building and how Urgent helped discover a hidden treasure! Michaela…
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Wayfinding: an Australian perspective
Date: 8 July 2021 Want to find out what’s happening in Australia’s wayfinding design and research worlds? Join us for two unique talks. Mark Janetzki shared wayfinding work from the Diadem design studio in Melbourne. Dr Andrew Haig gave an overview of his doctoral research into how we build spatial knowledge, why using paper maps…
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Abram Games and the 1951 Festival of Britain
Date: 17 June 2021 Opened on 4 May 1951, the Festival of Britain (FoB) ran successfully for five months across the United Kingdom. It gave visitors a taste of contemporary living and a vision of future innovation. It was also a morale boost in the aftermath of World War II. The Festival celebrated Britain’s achievements past,…
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Crafting letters today
Date: 20 May 2021 In a world where we spend so much time staring at things on screens, it is all the more important to be reminded of our physical place in the real world. Craft skills and the objects made by craftspeople offer one such reminder. Pip Hall and Erik Spiekermann both work with…
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What colour can (and can’t) do for wayfinding
Date: 22 April 2021 Paul Mijksenaar believes that “colour is the richest, most emotional, and most powerful means of visual communication and stretches beyond cultural boundaries; so use it accordingly and don’t spoil it…” This talk provided a fascinating overview of the use of colour in wayfinding systems for transport hubs, healthcare facilities, museums and…
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Finding urban graphic heritage
Date: 25 March 2021 Urban graphic heritage is typically comprised of things such as old signs, old hoardings, and architectural lettering. This talk presented insights from a two-year project ‘Repositioning Graphic Heritage’ looking specifically at urban graphic heritage in its setting. It explored the relationship between graphic heritage and heritage interpretation, between presentation and representation,…
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The legacy of MacDonald ‘Max’ Gill – maps, murals and master of lettering
Date: 25 February 2021 ‘Max Gill … belongs to a rich chapter in the history of English art and design that is all too often over-looked in our enthusiasm for the rise of the adventurous but clinical modern, which (all too quickly) overtook it.’ (The Art Newspaper, 23 October 2020) Caroline Walker, great-niece of…
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Where do we go from here?
Date: 28 January 2021 Everywhere we go, we encounter implicit and explicit cues to guide us, from environment and behaviour to graphics and manuals. In complex environments, these cues become part of a system that can assist people to sort through data, fill out a form, absorb new information, or navigate a place. Acclaimed wayfinding…
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Intuitive wayfinding beyond vision
Date: 17 December 2020 Talks by human-centred designer and researcher Sophie Horrocks, and Senior Lecturer in Psychology at De Montfort University Dr Meredith Wilkinson. The design of our environment has the power to enable or disable all of us. How intuitively we’re able to navigate that environment impacts all aspects of our lives: how we…
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Many heads make light work. How multidisciplinary teams make for better wayfinding design
Date: 19 November 2020 A multi-disciplinary approach to wayfinding can result in a wide range of physical and cognitive differences being successfully accommodated with enhanced maintenance and cost efficiencies, with analytics allowing dynamic situations to be predicted, anticipated and managed. Ultimately, user experience and independent navigation feels intuitive, enhanced through adopting a multi-modal, user-centric approach…