Brief 01: Design Process - Way-Finding

Way-finding

First studio brief for our new module. We've been tasked to create a way-finding // navigational system for environment of our choosing (Just from talking to some peers, creating the way finding for the college seems to be the main choice). To do this, we will have to utilise our developing understanding of visual communication and typography to create a way finding system that will be both legible and create an experience for the users. 

Ted Talk: Aris Venetikidis making sense of maps

This Ted talk is by Map designer Aris Venetikidis. He's fascinated by the maps we draw up within our minds as we move around a area to create mental schematics or wiring diagrams of these places. The aim of the Ted talk is to find out how we can learn from these mental maps we think up to make better real ones? While this is more for map making, it has a great way of benefiting the area of way-finding as he talks about aspects that are needed to be able for his maps to become legible and easy to understand by the reader which is needed from each maps and way finding.