Inspiration

YURI SHIMOJO

Yuri Shimojo creates strange, grotesque images. I love how see uses lines of various thickness and lenghths. My favourite images are the ones she has made using a maximum of three colours: white, black, red/blue etc. It is interesting to see how the image can appear and still look so interesting with a minimal amount of colour. I will consider this when creating my wayfinding designs.

LUCY MCLAUCHLAN

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I have decided to continue working with my third idea involving large scaled images on walls.


Most students from the Brit school described the school as original, different and unique in a sense that it is a performing arts school involving a diverse range of people creating a peculiar environment. The Brit school was also described as creative and talented.

From the words used to describe the school, odd, peculiar, strange and grotesque came to mind.

I have tried to put all the key words together and involve them in my designs.

ORIGINAL
UNIQUE
DIFFERENT
CREATIVE
ODD
PECULIAR
STRANGE
GROTESQUE

Aedas

Aedas are a leading international design practice which offers services in architecture, interior design, master planning, landscape, urban design and building consultancy within Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas.

"We are committed to our core value of design excellence and are dedicated to research & development and sustainability."  -Aedas

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Colour & Typography

COLOUR

Colour is a significant element I must consider when designing my wayfinding designs. I have to think carefully about what colours I include in my designs as certain colours can influence moods an individual has towards their surrounding and towards other individuals. Some colours can also cause people to concentrate and for others, a distraction. I should also consider having different colours for each strand or only using the colours from the Brit school logo: orange, green/blue, white. It may be interesting to have a colour theme through out the entire building.



TYPOGRAPHY

#4

Pop Art

This design is quite different from all my previous designs. It involves sculptural pieces, maybe made from card or slightly harder material, mounted at the top of a wall close to the ceiling. Where the word 'pow' is shown in my sketch, would be where the name of the area would be, e.g dance, theatre, maths, etc. This would be in a comic style and would give a pop art feel throughout the building. Arrows would show the direction of where students and visitors would go to get to their destination.

#3

Graphic/Fine Art
This design involves continuous images on walls leading onto the ceiling and floor. In this specific design, there would be a detailed painting of a ribbon on the wall leading Brit students and visitors to their destination. The painting may begin in the reception with a detailed painting of a dancer holding the ribbon acting as a trail towards the dance studio for example.

#2

Words forming words

This design is similar to the previous design font wise. The font would be plain, simple and clear to read. However, instead of block colours, the signs showing the name of the area or simple arrows would be formed from words written in a simple font in various sizes. From a distance, the signs would appear as if they have been painted one colour but when closely observed, each word would seem clearly visible; e.g the sign 'VAD' could be formed from the words visual arts and design or art related words or an arrow '-->' could be formed from the words the arrow is leading to such as the reception, visual arts and design department, foyer, etc. As the words forming the arrows would not be visible from a distance, there would have to be a colour code for certain areas of the building, e.g art strand could have the colour orange, theatre could have green, the reception could have yellow and the foyer could have blue, etc.