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On Friday we looked at what materials would work best for our mock up, we needed to rubber bands to hold up the seperate blocks. We also bought wooden sticks, paint and glue to construct our mock up. We found that the glue we bought wasnt strong enough to hold the structure, but were able to borrow a hot glue gun.
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After finishing our rough concept we then went back into researching so that we could polish our ideas and further develop them. As we looked further into signage like our design, we found some of these ^^^ and it inspired us to try and push the design to be more interactive.
Initial colour/material concepts.
We wanted to use softer colours as they make the text easier to read from afar, as well as being less in your face and more able to blend into the surroundings. The green sign was a more natural take on the sign design to try and incorporate the greenery and bushes we saw amongst Freyberg Square, which is also reflected in the choice to use plywood. The lighter colours also are calming which will have a positive effect on people who could possibly be flustered or stressed while trying to find their way and using our way-finding sign.
Materials Research: Plywood
We wanted to use a cheap and on trend type material for the majority of the sign so that it moulds into the aesthetics that are already part of FreyBerg Square. We found that the main advantages of plywood are:
High uniform strength - wood is 25-45 times stronger along the grain than across the grain. Crossing the adjacent sheets tends to equalise the strength in all directions.
Freedom from shrinking, swelling and warping - Solid wood exhibits considerable movement across the grain but generally negligible shrinkage or swelling in a longitudinal plane. The balanced construction of a plywood panel with the grain direction of adjacent veneers at right angles tends to equalise stress, thus reducing shrinkage, swelling and warping.
Non-splitting qualities solid wood splits fairly readily along the grain. Plywood by virtue of the crossed laminations can be nailed or screwed near the edges without damage from splitting.
Availability of relatively large sizes - Sawn timber can be obtained in fairly long lengths but only in relatively narrow widths. Plywood can be sold in sizes up to 6 ft * 25 ft and by the scarf jointing of small sheets up to 6 ft *40 ft, however 6 ft*3 ft is the most common size.
Economical and effective utilisation of figured wood - Twenty sheets of veneer can be sliced from 1 inch of solid wood, when glued to a core of cheaper material a high grade panel is produced. This procedure thus effects distinct economies in the use of figured or the more valuable woods. In addition to facilitating the utilisation of attractive but fragile face veneers to give results which cannot be duplicated in solid construction. More effective utilisation is obtained by the matching of veneer in such a manner that the decorative effect due to the natural figure in the wood is enhanced by the regularity or symmetry of the design.
Ease of fabrication of curved surfaces - The trend of modern architectural design is to feature curved surfaces. The desired shapes can be readily fabricated in plywood construction, utilising male and female forms, or a single forming a vacuum press or autoclave
One of the important aspects in the manufacture of plywood is that it results in the conservation of timber by the elimination of the waste which occurs in sawing eg sawdust. Waste is confined to the small core which remain after peeling, and from the veneer which is lost in rounding up the log, and the elimination of such defects a knots and splits.
This makes plywood seemingly a good choice to use. We also thought about using thin concrete slabs but quickly realised they would be too heavy, and also maybe not enough of a contrast against the buildings of its surrounding.
When researching which fonts are ideal to use in way-finding, a list of appropriate font choices come up which are:
Albertus
Futura
Futura Condensed
Gotham
Neue Helvetica
Univers
Windsor
When choosing a font when I design I often like to use Futura (medium) as it is easily read, sans serif, and quite a modern looking font. I think we will look at trying out Futura amongst the other fonts and go from there.
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When finding a place to position our sign, we agreed to find a spot where it wasn’t in the way of people walking through Freyberg Square, but could also be seen by people sitting on the big group of stairs.
The main types of people we saw were:
- Tourists
- Business people
- Students
- Parents with children
There are also street performers and stalls set up occasionally at Freyberg Square. This can bring in many other types of people so in our design we will still need to consider this. However our main focus group will be tourists.
We created a bit of a mood board to get our ideas started. We were drawing to signs that incorporated the surrounding into the sign. For example, painting the information onto stairs. We first thought this idea could be fun but then realised that with people sitting on the stairs eating their lunch or whatever, it would make it hard for the information to always be readable as the people would be in the way. All the colours in the designs we saw were quite pastel or muted - nothing too bright to takeaway from the rest of the area and information shown.
