Event categories: Past event
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UX for the built environment
Date: 29 January 2026 29 January 2026 (6pm GMT) Sarah Manning’s talk Sarah Manning (Spaceagency) explored how architecture and cities act as living interfaces – connecting us to meaning, story, culture, and human connection. Moving beyond screens and digital journeys, their work focusses on the cognitive aspects of navigation: the signs we read; the elements…
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Clear metro signage for all
Date: 18 December 2025 18 December 2025 (1pm GMT) Fenne Roefs’ talk Fenne Roefs’ (Mijksenaar) talk explored how the Amsterdam Metro is rethinking its wayfinding system to make it more inclusive. It’s a story of design as inclusion: how small changes in signage can transform the experience of hundreds of thousands of daily passengers, bridging…
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Wayfinding 2.0 (AI)
Date: 20 November 2025 Thursday 30 October 2025 (8am ET / 1pm GMT / 2pm CET) Peter Reynolds’ talk Peter Reynolds’ talk looked at how emerging technologies, especially AI and IoT, are going to change the way we plan, develop, and manage wayfinding systems. It’s about how we, as designers and consultants, will work differently…
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The CLÓSCAPE Project: Researching the Cló Gaelach in the Irish Streetscape
Date: 30 October 2025 Thursday 30 October (1pm GMT) Nicole Volmering’s talk The CLÓSCAPE project focusses on the use of the cló gaelach in the Irish Streetscape, specifically on historic street signs in Dublin, and seeks to preserve a digital record of the signage for preservation and research. In this talk, Nicole Volmering addressed the history of the…
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The Great British Railways Signing Challenge: 60 Years of Learning and Unlearning
Date: 2 October 2025 Thursday 2 October 2025 (1pm BST / 2pm CEST) Daniel Wright’s talk Transport writer Daniel Wright’s overview of 60 years of British railway station signage. Starting with British Railways’ 1965 unified signage scheme and how it got lost, the talk moved through the anarchy of privatisation-era signage, before looking at how…
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SDS & SEGD London Symposium @LDF25 – Wayfinding: Future Thinking
Date: 18 September 2025 You could get an idea of what was to come at our symposium in this Motasdesign podcast episode, featuring SDS Chair Andrew Barker. SDS and SEGD were delighted to collaborate again, on a symposium for 2025. Our event, proudly sponsored by Electrosonic, was part of this year’s London Design Festival. This…
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Lettering Tour of Highgate Cemetery
Date: 24 July 2025More info There was no recording of this tour Example of headstone lettering on an old grave (for John Brown who died in 1861) in Highgate Cemetery The Sign Design Society secured an exclusive lettering tour of Highgate Cemetery. Stonemason Neil Luxton gave us a guided tour of the lettering in the cemetery. Neil conducts stonemasonry…
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Natural Wayfinding in Hackney Central
Date: 24 April 2025More info 24 April 2025 (1pm BST) Anna Saveleva, James Brown and Riccardo Bobisse’s talk In this talk, Riccardo Bobisse, Anna Saveleva and James Brown shared key insights from a recent collaboration between the AR Urbanism team, Air Design, Hackney Council, and its residents, as part of the development of a wayfinding…
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Culture, the Arts, Creative Placemaking, and the Software of City Making
Date: 13 March 2025 13 March 2025 Rana Amirtahmasebi and Jason Schupbach’s talk Much attention about the present and future of cities focusses on the hardware of highways and infrastructure, airports and flood defenses: what is missing are conversations about the software which is culture. We need to reframe how we talk about culture in…
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Why Even Use Traditional Signs?
Date: 20 February 2025 20 February 2025 Andrew Grundon’s talk Where does traditional sign painting fit in the modern world? Sign writer / painter Andrew Grundon (Signature Signs) talked about his craft, its place in modern day sign design, and how commercial sign companies can accommodate the integration of this traditional craft and the specific…