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Good cities point the wayfaring stranger in the right direction
Wayfinding is an art form and one too often neglected. There is a whole industry built around this craft that seeks to manoeuvre us around airports, hospitals and cities using signs, graphics and clever…
Observation: Creative bloc
The artsy types at Eurolab think the EU’s tired branding has too easily ceded the field to nationalists and populists. We hear about their new vision.
Sign language
If you’ve been to the US, it’s likely that Donald Meeker gave you directions. He’s the graphic designer whose wayfinding systems keep millions of people on track every day.
Fonts to run with
Before pixels and plagiarism scandals, Lance Wyman gave Mexico City 1968 its geometric soul. As Rio looms, a look back at the designer who made Olympic branding an art form.
This is the way
Major airports like Schiphol and JFK have turned to Dutch designer Paul Mijksenaar for their signage systems. He tells Monocle about his crusade to take the art of wayfinding in a new direction.
