Seems New, Seems Right
There’s an interesting paradox that crops up when designers work in heritage settings - the course of action that seems correct and obvious almost never is. This tendency is fueled…
DIY mobile apps
This article on an interesting new entrant to the smartphone app market for museums, TourSphere™ popped up this week on Museum Walk. While this is billed as a smartphone "app…
EGD images
The Signage, Wayfinding, and Environmental Graphic Design Flickr group is a useful source of inspiration, with images from around the world. There's a mixture of photos and renderings, around 350 images…
Handwritten by Typographers
An interesting post about the handwriting of Typographers, questioning how their own, most personal way of written communication informs or affects their designs of the building blocks of written communication for…
Wayfinder
Stuart Lambon's open-source typeface Wayfinder is a sans serif optimized for easy reading at speed for wayfinding applications. Free to download and use, includes arrows. (via twitter: @davejorr)
Down Below the Street: Helvetica and the New York City Subway System
Sounds like a wonderfully well-researched and well-told account of the history of the struggle to standardize on Helvetica for the NYC subway signage system by historian and typographer Paul Shaw.…
Icons galore
Iconfinder is a great resource for designers or anybody looking for a specific icon. There is a fair bit of dross here, and only rudimentary search capabilities, but they do…