Books on Signage & Wayfinding

In this article I present my personal list of recommendable books on signage, wayfinding and spatial cognition … Kevin Lynch: The Image of the City This book from 1960 is the result of a five-year study on how users perceive and organize spatial information... 

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Eight:48 Issue 2

http://eight48.com/ The second issue of Counter-Print’s newspaper, Eight:48, centers around the theme of ideas and inspiration. Titled, What’s the Big Idea?, it is forwarded by Roger Fawcett-Tang and contains original articles from Bruno... 

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Barry McGee x Cinelli Saddle

Nuova collaborazione tra l’artista Barry McGee e Cinelli per questa versione in pelle della Unicator . Disponibile sul catalogo 2011 Nuova collaborazione tra l’artista Barry McGee e Cinelli per questa versione in pelle della Unicator.... 

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More from Prof Craig Ward’s type lab

Readers will (we hope) remember Craig Ward ’s cover for our Annual this year in which type was grown using pollen cells. For his next trick, Ward has created the number 30 using highly magnetic ferrofluid Ward was asked by Discover magazine to... 

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Staple ‘BP Pigeon’ T-Shirt

Jeff Staple ha disegnato questa tees dove il suo famoso Pigeon ha lasciato un ricordo sul logo BP . Il ricavato andrà per la Healthy Gulf . Jeff Staple ha disegnato questa tees dove il suo famoso Pigeon ha lasciato un ricordo sul logo BP. Il... 

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Guia – a wayfinding typeface for pedestrian signage

The typeface Guia by Tânia Raposo has been her final project at the type]media Master in The Hague. “Guia” is the Portuguese word for “Guide”. The typeface Guia by Tânia Raposo has been her final project at the type]media Master in The... 

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Stefan Kjartansson: Cumulus & Foam

Some typefaces have films made about them (Helvetica), some typefaces are ridiculed (Comic Sans) and others appear from nowhere and gather momentum like Cumulus & Foam, the typeface pictured that has gradually been gathering attention across the... 

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Brazil Mishandles 2014 World Cup Logo

With the World Cup over and the sound of the vuvuzelas now just a distant echo, it’s only a matter of four years before the world becomes enthralled with futbol once again and for Americans to pretend they like it. In the meantime, we can all look... 

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Good News exhibition, HBKsaar

On Tuesday, July 6, Lorenz Schirmer, Atilla Korap, and I made the two-hour drive to Saarbrücken, a small city on Germany’s border with France. On Tuesday, July 6, Lorenz Schirmer, Atilla Korap, and I made the two-hour drive to Saarbrücken,... 

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Technically, This is Very Colorful

If you like your movies and television shows in color, you owe such modern-day pleasures to Technicolor , the company that created the eponymous color film processes in the early 1920s and gave movies like The Wizard of Oz the ability to show a yellow... 

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