Wayfinding Drawings

These are some sketches of possible signs for wayfinding.

Wayfinding Pics

Here are some pictures of example areas that our signage would be placed in.

This is where we would place a "Vending Machine" with arrow or appropriate icon on the wall to show which way that it's placed at.

In between these two we may add a "Vending Machine Area" sign.

We would have two campus directories with colored dots to indicate vending machine locations and possibly a list to spell out each building and location of the machines. These would be the main signs.

Project 1 Wayfinding: Ideas

For our first assignment, we've been put together in a group to use the practice of wayfinding. 

Wayfinding is using various signage and landmarks in order to successfully navigate a certain space. For example: Hospitals, parking garages, tunnels all use wayfinding as a means to assist daily patrons in getting from point A to point B. 

My group consisting of Kevin, Laura & Katlyn came up with the idea to help students find vending machines located throughout campus. 

Our first step in coming up with our idea was to find our culture, who we wanted to help. Who better to help on a college campus than the very students that inhabit it. What do college students need? Food. What don't they have? Money...or lots of it rather. The answer? Vending machines. They offer fairly cheap options to fill a student's appetite..or at least get through their next class. 

With so many vending machines on campus, some may be hidden to the average starving student on a budget. To compensate we will derive a wayfinding system in order to locate all of the vending machines on campus. 

To do this we will create two maps that are located next to the campus directory and will basically be a map of the campus and will have a colored dot or icon on the building where the vending machine is located. Next, we will have signs located out in front of the buildings with the vending machines to say something along the lines of "vending machine located here". Finally, inside the buildings and located near the actual vending machines themselves we'll place a sign that says vending machine and have an arrow or similar logo pointing in the correction direction. 

And so it begins again...

After a very relaxing break, it's that time of year again...new semester, new classes and most importantly new concepts and ideas to grasp. 

My first impression of BDS 102 is that it's essentially a continuation of BDS 101. Although that may be true, there's a lot more to it than just that. Having a class full of fresh faces is a nice refresh and  as is the instructor. Tom already seems like he's a very intellectual guy who's got his head in the right place when it comes to design. I'm excited to learn about his thought processes about design. 

I'm excited to get started!