Hey everyone, its been a little while since my last post but do not despair I’m still alive!
Recently I was lucky enough to have the chance to write a small article for the Wayfinding UK blog you can view the post here.
The post called upon research I did during my university project and is based upon the differences in airport wayfinding systems. Thanks go out to Hayley who runs the Wayfinding UK blog and who gave me the chance to write this guest article!
There will hopefully be a few more posts of the photography nature and a little bit of variety heading to the blog in the near future, so don’t go away for too long!
Hey everyone, another post which shows some of the updates I’ve made to the airport wayfinding system I am looking into.
This week I looked into the typeface weight on the signs and also how they should be laid out in terms of spacing between icons, arrows and text. Below are a few image examples that I’ve done. For an increased explanation of what I have done please view the embedded video.
The first images show possible ways of laying out the signs for gate numbers. These have been purpoesely coloured yellow to stand out from the rest of the signs within the airport environment. The red and grey bars show the spacing between each element of the sign. Each bar is an icons border width apart, this allows for proportionate measurements when scaling, instead of finding a formula if using a mm scale.
This example of the gate signs i think works a lot better without the type than with. There is no need to have “Gates” repeated down the sign.
This second set of images shows 3 examples of how the main signs could be laid out. The first two are my favourite examples as I feel number three isn’t as clear as it could be with writing as well. I also feel that not every symbol needs to have a word description next to it because the symbols are quite self explanatory, this is why I have left the secondary processes sections as purely icons.
Below is the video i created going into slightly more detail.
Hi Everyone! I have decided that I would like to revisit my degree project right from the start and expand/improve upon everything I had previously done for it. The first thing I decided to do was to take another critical look at the icons I had produced. Since looking at the icons again I’m not sure why I was so happy with the way they turned out, many of them seemed quite sloppy in the way they were drawn on illustrator and there were a few which I could tell needed clear re-working. I believe a lot of the problem was the running low on time during the degree itself.
The image below (click to view much larger) shows all the currently updated icons, I have been working on these over the past week on and off and can now say I’m very pleased with how they have turned out. Each has been carefully vectorised and smoothed out so there shouldn’t be any nasty bumps. The colours refer to the background colour they would go against on the signs themselves. Blue is for any main processes undertaken at an airport, grey is used for any secondary processes and the yellow is for gate numbers.
This video shows each icon individually against the original version and explains the changes that I made to each.
