Design Update 26/04.2011

Since I have decided to continue my idea of using the school logo as part of the wall designs, I've focused more on how much detail I will put into the figures themselves; how detailed will they be?

Should I make them look more like people then stick men?  The only problem with this is I'll be straying a bit further away from the stick man logo...

If I stick to the stick-men, I wanted to consider more about the designs for the way finding as well as the wall decorating.  I likes the idea of making the signs a bit like comic strips, with the characters doing something round the signs...  for example; the EXIT is illustrated by the logo man running to the exit from zombies or a dinosaur or something silly...

But if I wanted to be boring I could stick to the steriotypical designs like shake-spear at theatre.
Even so here's some more sign designs...

Lesson Designs n Fluff 11/04/2011

Sorry for dodgy scanning but my scanner isn't fond of anything bigger then A4...
The top image is a scan off the lunch-hall-to-be and i've doodled some of the designs I would like there if I was allowed to decorate the walls.  (Liz decorating walls tends to be dangerous...)

I liked the idea that the walls couldbe decorated with the school logo stick figure and his mates doing stuff round the school like painting of signing.  The figures could be guiding people around by pointing or speech bubbles bit like in a comic but also a little interactive!

Great Ormond Street Hostpital Continued

Working on a pro bono basis, Landor Associates has created two distinct wayfinding systems for Great Ormond Street childrens' Hospital (GOSH).
The first (which has already been implemented) sees each of the hospital's six buildings take on a particular colour identity to make navigation through the various buildings easier. And the second, which has been specifically devised for the yet-to-be completed Llewelyn Davies Yeang designed Morgan Stanley Clinic Building (MSCB), is based on the natural world. A host of different animal characters will help visitors to the building find their way around, as well as put children at ease in the environment.

The team at Landor came up with a more complex wayfinding system (which will first be implemented in the new MSCB when it opens in 2012, but which may well extend to the rest of the hospital in time) that has two purposes, to direct and also distract.

The natural world-based system takes into account the fact that many wards in the hospital are already named after animals. The basic idea is that each floor of the building takes on a natural world theme, with the lower ground floor being under the sea.

Each ward on each floor is then named after an animal that is associated with that particular environment - and they can appear in corridors to help guide people to them.

Landor Associates has created a guidelines document for GOSH (pages shown above) detailing how the scheme should function so that the redevelopment team from Great Ormond Street Hospital, with support from Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity, can implement it when the building work on the Morgan Stanley Clinical Building is complete. The design team at Landor have also made themselves available for further consultation on the project too.

Questionaire 6/4/2011 For BRIT Students

1. What is the first thing you comes to mind when you think of the BRIT school?
2. How is the BRIT different from your previous school?
3. If you could describe BRIT in one word, what would it be?
4. Do you feel strand division is an issue in this school?
5. What made you come to BRIT school?
6. Would you change anything about BRIT school and what would it be?

BRIT Students please answer!!

Way Finding

Historically, wayfinding refers to the techniques used by travelers over land and sea to find relatively unmarked and often mislabeled routes.
Urban planner Kevin A. Lynch borrowed the term for his 1960 book Image of the City, where he defined wayfinding as “a consistent use and organization of definite sensory cues from the external environment”.
In 1984 environmental psychologist Romedi Passini published the full-length "Wayfinding in Architecture" and expanded the concept to include signage and other graphic communication, clues inherent in the building's spatial grammar, logical space planning, audible communication, tactile elements, and provision for special-needs users.

Great Ormond Street Hostpital

Introduction

This site is my record of the work I do in art for the BRIT School's new building.  We will be working on a project where we will creating "way-finding" designs as well as creating them before its build to make it easier for people to navagate to and around it.  The designes have to represent the school identity as a whole and give a unified impression of all the strands.