Spaceagency, together with Weston Williamson and Partners, hosted an event the the Building Centre in London last week for a private view seeking user feedback on new Network Rail Wayfinding and Signage Standards.
Approx. 100 attendees were presented with three distinct concept directions and asked to provide feedback with regards to legibility, type sizes, colours, iconography and others to information the further development of the desig
Spaceagency has designed the new Manchester city centre map as part of the Greater Manchester Connected Wayfinding project for Transport for Greater Manchester, in collaboration with Manchester City Council. 250,000 city centre maps have been distributed to visitor information centres, hotels, stations and the convention centre. The vision for the Connected Wayfinding project is to create an outstanding pedestrian urban environment in Manchester that puts pedestrians at the heart of the movement strategy for the city and wider region. The project aligns with the City Centre Transport Strategy 2040, which focuses on creating an integrated, well coordinated transport system which supports walking and cycling alongside easy modal interchange to the public transport system. Spaceagency is currently designing the pilot scheme for a city centre roll out of pedestrian totem signs as part of the integrated pedestrian and transport information system. Design proposals have been scrutinised by key stakeholders, including TfGM’s disability design reference group, to ensure accessible product sizing, information hierarchy, legibility and Equalities Act compliant text sizing. © Crown copyright and database rights 2018 OS 0100022610.
We were delighted to be invited to the ground-breaking ceremony for the Audrey Irmas Pavilion in Los Angeles, attended by the architectural team leaders for the project, Rem Koolhaas and Shohei Shigumatsu. Spaceagency has been appointed to develop the graphic identity, wayfinding and signage for this new landmark building located adjacent to the renowned Wilshire Boulevard Temple.
The Spaceagency Guide to Wayfinding has been released in English and Chinese.
It is available through leading retailers, including Amazon: https://amzn.to/2r0ADSF
Wayfinding design is part of the informational layer through which we navigate the world. The role of the wayfinding designer is to uncover the latent structure of a building or urban space and to make it visible and comprehensible. Wayfinding is a little-known field of design that crosses a number of disciplines, including urban design and planning, product design, graphic design, information design and behavioural psychology. Without any higher education programmes dedicated to the field, wayfinding is often poorly understood.
WW+P and Spaceagency have been appointed by Network Rail Buildings and Architecture to revise and update the Wayfinding Design Guidance, providing a complete overview of the Network Rail signage and wayfinding strategies for all their managed stations.
Sarah’s designjunction talk DESIGNEVERYUSE on Friday, 21 September 2018, has now been published by ON DESIGN podcast on Youtube.
Sarah Manning and Peter Feldmann of Spaceagency were interviewed for the October issue of the Australian Design Review about the growing importance of wayfinding and user experience research.
Article online: https://www.australiandesignreview.com/architecture/growing-business-wayfinding/
Spaceagency is providing the graphic identity, wayfinding and signage for the Audrey Irmas Pavilion, the new community gathering place adjoining the renowned Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles. As part of the project, Spaceagency was commissioned to create a brochure which has now been launched.
Project website: https://audreyirmaspavilion.org/
Join Sarah on Friday at 12.00 for LIGHT WASTED NOT at designjunction.
Sarah’s keynote lecture at EDGE 2018, the annual conference of the Australian Institute of Architects, is now available on Vimeo.
Sarah has been invited to be a guest juror at this year’s AA Summer School Final Review on Friday, 20 July.
http://summerschool.aaschool.ac.uk/bits-bytes-fragments-2018/
Second part of the interview with Sarah and Peter from Spaceagency.
http://www.theredandblackarchitect.com/wayfinding-and-architecture-qa-with-spaceagency-part-2/
Interview with Sarah and Peter during the Australian Institute of Architects National Conference discussing the Spaceagency design approach and international projects.
http://www.theredandblackarchitect.com/wayfinding-and-architecture-qa-with-spaceagency/
The awards celebrate women’s achievements throughout London.
This week Timeout's suggestions for a perfect day in Margate include taking a selfie by Spaceagency's Dreamland sign.
Sarah delivered a keynote at Edge, the annual conference of the Australian Institute of Architects in Gold Coast on Australia's East coast, sharing Spaceagency’s designs and projects with an audience of over 900 architects and designers.
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/288757874
Spaceagency was invited to showcase a range of projects during the Days of Architecture and Design in Bratislava, including our involvement in the Stanica Nivy development in the capital with HB Reavis. The event was accompanied by DESIGN IS GREAT, a publication from the British Embassy in Slovakia featuring the best of British architectural design.
Spaceagency is delighted to feature in this month's issue of Novum, the German magazine for graphic design, with our projects for the Astana Expo in 2017, the Eastland project in Melbourne, our Project for the Victorian Amusement Park Dreamland in Margate and the Panamerican Highway project.
https://novum.graphics/news/alle-news/
Abstract of Sarah's talk at the Australian Institute of Architects 2018
Spaceagency is looking to expand its team of talented designers. If you’re ambitious and passionate about design we would love to hear from you! Info@spaceagency-design.com