新聞
- 近期完成的項目
- High Speed Rail Asia 2011
- Bangkok office outing
- 2nd Retail Asia Congress 2009
- Sign09 Vienna
- Taipei office outing
- Lighting effects at Shanghai Centre
- Retail Innovation Summit 2008
- Book Launch
- Business of Design Week 2007
- Siem Reap office outing
- Information Design Conference (IDC) 2007
- Designer's Saturday 2007
Information Design Conference (IDC) 2007
2007/04
Organised by the Information Design Association (IDA), the Information Design Conference (IDC) series serves to bring together a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, concerned with information's usability and usefulness. This year's IDC was held in the Maritime Campus of the University of Greenwich on 29th and 30th March and the programme included presentations from nine countries in Europe and Asia, North and South America. Among the themes for this year's conference was a section on wayfinding and signing.
Having successfully completed several wayfinding and signage projects within the region, Atelier's Pacific's Nic Banks was invited to present a paper on Signing Public Transport Systems in Asia.
As the density of urban environments and their associated ‘visual noise’ has grown with time, so the need for public transport systems to be readily understood has grown. The need to inform customers and assist in their understanding of the facility forms the back-bone of all good transport systems. However, many transport companies often view their system in isolation from their surrounding environment and in competition with other transport systems, usually to the detriment of customers.
Nic's paper explored how different systems have addressed this problem for different types of transport systems, from established mass transit railways in Europe, to newly constructed air-travel projects in Asia. He also gave an explanation of the fundamentals behind information transfer, presented examples of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ signing systems and concluded with a look at how public transport systems might be signed in the future.
Having successfully completed several wayfinding and signage projects within the region, Atelier's Pacific's Nic Banks was invited to present a paper on Signing Public Transport Systems in Asia.
As the density of urban environments and their associated ‘visual noise’ has grown with time, so the need for public transport systems to be readily understood has grown. The need to inform customers and assist in their understanding of the facility forms the back-bone of all good transport systems. However, many transport companies often view their system in isolation from their surrounding environment and in competition with other transport systems, usually to the detriment of customers.
Nic's paper explored how different systems have addressed this problem for different types of transport systems, from established mass transit railways in Europe, to newly constructed air-travel projects in Asia. He also gave an explanation of the fundamentals behind information transfer, presented examples of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ signing systems and concluded with a look at how public transport systems might be signed in the future.
