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The hidden costs of getting lost in a Hospital How wayfinding saves time, money and frustration

The hidden costs of getting lost in a Hospital
Essential Design Principles for Hospital Wayfinding [2023] How Can Wayfinding Design Improve Hospital Navigation and Enhance Patient Experience? Discover how a patient-centered approach to wayfinding can improve hospital experiences.

Essential Design Principles for Hospital Wayfinding [2023]
Arrow Pro Collection Soon available: The ultimate Arrow Collection of 448 symbol signs

Arrow Pro Collection
What is a Wayfinding Strategy? What is a wayfinding strategy and are there methodologies that describes a solution for spatial problem solving?

What is a Wayfinding Strategy?
The voyage begins Early wayfinding explorers used traditional methods of navigation. They used key elements from their surroundings to find their way to discovering new land.

The voyage begins
Signs and color contrast The definite guide into signage design and color usage. You will learn about the contrast ratio for displaying text on a colored background for signs.

Signs and color contrast
Introduction to wayfinding This article is an introduction to sign design and how wayfinding works. You will learn about wayfinding, signage design and typography to create a clear and concise wayfinding system that applies the built environment.

Introduction to wayfinding
Wayfinding > wayshowing This is a review of the renewed edition of Wayshowing 2005, Wayshowing > Wayfinding Basic & Interactive, by Per Mollerup.

Wayfinding > wayshowing
56 Free Arrow Symbols & Icons Professional edited free vector arrow symbols & icons for personal and/or commercial usage. This collection of arrow symbols can help you in your art & design.

56 Free Arrow Symbols & Icons
Symbol Sign collection This is a collection of 50 common used signage symbols. Designed to kickstart your next wayfinding project.

Symbol Sign collection

Maps

Evertyhing about wayfinding maps

Early wayfinding maps Mapping, cartography or mapmaking is an essential part of the human history. From cave paintings to ancient mapping, creating a drawing of our surrounding is a tool to define, explain and navigate an environment.

Early wayfinding maps

Knowledge is written

Book review about books for wayfinding

Information design: Research and Practice Information design is a way of visually presenting information for an efficient and effective understanding of the information.

Information design: Research and Practice
Book Review: Airport Wayfinding Airports are busy places and can be hard to navigate. Wayfinding is needed to reduce stress and get people on the right flight.

Book Review: Airport Wayfinding
Piktogramme und Icons Piktogramme und Icons an extensive book about pictograms and icons, by Abdullah Rayan. Pictograms and Icons are a universal language to communicate.

Piktogramme und Icons
Wayfinding > wayshowing This is a review of the renewed edition of Wayshowing 2005, Wayshowing > Wayfinding Basic & Interactive, by Per Mollerup.

Wayfinding > wayshowing
Signage & Information graphics Book review about the extensive work Signage & Information Graphics by Andreas Uebele.

Signage & Information graphics
The Wayfinding Handbook This is the book about wayfinding, signage and environmental graphic design by David Gibson.

The Wayfinding Handbook
Orientation & Identity Book review: A great resource Portraits of International Way Finding Systems by Erwin K. Bauer and Dieter Mayer from Austria based Signaletik.

Orientation & Identity

Typography

Typography is the foundation of signs

FF Meta is everywhere Erik Spiekermann finest is everywhere

FF Meta is everywhere
Arial is everywhere OMG Arial is really everywhere

Arial is everywhere
Rotis is everywhere Otl Aicher one of the leading German graphic designers developed in 1988 the typeface Rotis, named after the town Olt Aicher lived in.

Rotis is everywhere

Inspiration

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Website tracking & addressing your privacy We have been thinking about data privacy, collecting visitors data and GDPR regulation on our website. This is our switch from Google Analytics to Fathom.

Website tracking & addressing your privacy
The current state of Design Conferences Due the corona 2020 pandemic most of the design conferences have been cancelled throughout the community.

The current state of Design Conferences
Architectural signage Outstanding examples of architectural signage

Architectural signage
City Wayfinding Havana Inspiration: An insight on The City Wayfinding Havana about typography, street slogans, color use and wayfinding.

City Wayfinding Havana
Designer iPhone Apps A list of iPhone apps for designers who use their mobile device more than just for calling.

Designer iPhone Apps
Dutch government corporate identity As part of the new brand identity of the Dutch government Peter Verheul designed a custom typeface for all forms of visual communications

Dutch government corporate identity
SDS Defining City Event How an informed choice of materials can influence a design and define the values of a City’, an event by the Sign Design Society

SDS Defining City Event
Inspiration: Annual Report Designs In this series we take a closer look at good designed annual reports, which can improve a professional approach and staying ahead of your competition.

Inspiration: Annual Report Designs
Apps for City Wayfinding Will apps change the future of city wayfinding?

Apps for City Wayfinding

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