Lakeside Brief- Initial Research

The main aim for this brief is to provide directional and informational signs for the new Lakeside Campus. The signs need to be suitable for many different audiences, such as students, children and adults (teachers and parents). The signs should be interesting and bright for the children but this factor shouldn't take away the practicality of the product as it's main and most important job is to direct the users and to give information to the users.

I am going to begin my research by looking into the following:
- Directional Signs
- Woodland Directional Signs
- Woodland Signs
- Information Signs
- Woodland Information Signs
- Coastal Signage

Directional Signs:







The above directional signs all feature arrows of some sort to point the user in the correct direction.

Woodland Directional Signs:



The directional signs which are found in the woods/forests are very minimal and they fit in to their surroundings by being a wooden post. They don't host a large amount of information on the post yet they do have colours which are different routes that you follow to get to the different places (visitors centre) or if you look for another post with the colour of your route, you follow that.

Information Signs:


   
    
  

The above are standard information signs, they usually as flat but they sometimes can be slanted, the slanted ones would be suitable for children as well as people with disabilities in wheelchairs as it would be at a suitable height level for them to see the board.


Woodland Information Signs:





The information signs which I have taken from the Forestry Commission signs are all mostly green painted wood and if they aren't green, they are just solid wood. The information signs that state the name of the forest uses icons and symbols similar to the road sign. The information sign on the bottom right hosts a large amount of information, this is a style of information design is something I would like to try.

Coastal Signage:

 



I decided to look at some coastal path signs as I feel that they put across information in a very attractive way which are very different in comparison to the forest information boards which I think is definitely something that I am going to explore.