Chris Calori, David Vanden-Eynden

Signage and Wayfinding Design

A Complete Guide to Creating Environmental Graphic Design Systems

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Produktbeschreibung

A new edition of the market-leading guide to signage and wayfinding design

This new edition of Signage and Wayfinding Design: A Complete Guide to Creating Environmental Graphic Design Systems has been fully updated to offer you the latest, most comprehensive coverage of the environmental design process--from research and design development to project execution. Utilizing a cross-disciplinary approach that makes the information relevant to architects, interior designers, landscape architects, graphic designers, and industrial designers alike, the book arms you with the skills needed to apply a standard, proven design process to large and small projects in an efficient and systematic manner.

Environmental graphic design is the development of a visually cohesive graphic communication system for a given site within the built environment. Increasingly recognized as a contributor to well-being, safety, and security, EGD also extends and reinforces the brand experience. Signage and Wayfinding Design provides you with Chris Calori's proven "Signage Pyramid" method, which makes solving complex design problems in a comprehensive signage program easier than ever before.
Features full-color design throughout with 100+ new images from real-world projects
Provides an in-depth view of design thinking applied to the EGD process
Explains the holistic development of sign information, graphic, and hardware systems.
Outlines the latest sign material, lighting, graphic application, and digital communication technologies
Highlights code and updated ADA considerations

If you're a design professional tasked with communicating meaningful information in the built environment, this vital resource has you covered.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 2. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 197mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 954g
• ISBN-13: 9781118692998
• ISBN-10: 1118692993
• Artikelnr.: 42294984

Autorenporträt

Chris Calori and David Vanden-Eynden are principals of Calori & Vanden- Eynden/Design Consultants, an award-winning, internationally recognized design office devoted to making people's lives better with thoughtful, visually-compelling signage and wayfinding programs. Both Ms. Calori and Mr. Vanden- Eynden are Fellows of the Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD) and are members of the AIGA. Ms. Calori is a Professional Affiliate of the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter. Committed design thinkers and educators, Chris and David have taught and lectured on design at professional conferences and at notable universities, including Yale, the University of Cincinnati, The Ohio State University, California State University at Long Beach, and New York City's Fashion Institute of Technology. Forewords by Tom Geismar and Ivan Chermayeff

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword to the Second Edition viii Foreword to the First Edition x
Acknowledgments xii Introduction xv 1 What Is Environmental Graphic Design?
2 The Spectrum of EGD Activity 5 The Importance of EGD Today 10 Digital
Information Systems and EGD 16 You Can't Learn This in College 21 What's
Ahead in This Book 22 2 The Design Process 24 The Client Is Part of the
Process 26 The Design Process Applied to EGD 26 Phase 1: Data Collection
and Analysis (Predesign) 28 Phase 2: Schematic Design 30 Phase 3: Design
Development 38 Phase 4: Documentation 48 Phase 5: Bidding (Postdesign) 60
Phase 6: Fabrication/Installation Observation 65 Phase 7: Postinstallation
Evaluation 77 Chapter Wrap-Up 78 3 Overview of the Signage Pyramid Method
80 Genesis of a Design Approach 80 The Signage Pyramid's Component Systems
81 The Signage Pyramid and Resource Allocation 84 Chapter Wrap-up 89 4 The
Information Content System 90 Kinds of Sign Information Content 91
Hierarchy of Content 98 Developing the Sign Information Content System 100
Navigation: Message Hierarchy and Proximity 111 Other Factors Affecting the
Sign Information Content System 114 Pictorial Information Content 123
Signage Master Plans 125 Chapter Wrap-Up 125 5 The Graphic System 126
Typography Overview 127 Choosing a Typeface 129 Typographic Treatment 134
Typographic Considerations in Signage for People Who Read by Touch 141
Symbols and Arrows 143 Diagrams 150 Other Graphic Elements 156 Color 157
Layout 165 Overview of Sign Graphic Application Processes 181 Chapter
Wrap-up 191 6 The Hardware System 192 Shape 193 Connotations of Form 200
Sign Mounting Considerations 203 Sign Size Considerations 209 Sign Lighting
Overview 212 Sign Materials Overview 218 Basic Sign Materials 222
Electronic Digital Display Units 236 Stock Sign Hardware Systems 244 Sign
Materials and Codes 246 Overview of Sign Coatings and Finishes 247 Chapter
Wrap-up 255 Gallery 256 Image Credits 286 Bibliography 292 Index 295