Rough Sketches

Below are my rough coloured sketches for the information sign and the directional sign:

Above is my directional sign for this brief, I will use the font Bliss 2 Regular as this is the font that the university use for all of their graphics, I discovered this when I searched for information about the universities identity (the link is below).  I thought that by using the university font then it would not only be recognised to the public as being a university building/campus but it would also continue with the rest of the universities identity. On the simplified map that I am going to create, there will be colours symbolising the different sections of the campus and then those sections will represent the colours on the directional sign, this would mean that the user would be able to use the colours instead of the actual wording.

http://www.worcester.ac.uk/documents/Identity_Guidelines.pdf

This is the contents of the rough information sign, it will include a mapped out version of the lake and then pin points (almost like notice board pins) and then there will be an image of the animal/fish with the name and a small bit of information such as a fact about them. The heading of "Lakeside Wildlife" would be in the font of Clarendon Roman which is the font that the university use as a heading font. This again, like I mentioned above would enhance the universities identity. My inspiration for this design was taken from the circular walk that was one of the session tasks which can be found later on in my blog. Research of other informational sign boards also allowed me to come to this rough conclusion. The animal titles and the information about them will be in the font Bliss 2 Regular.

The above are some examples of my idea on different types of informational boards to work out which one would look better.