Signs 2010 »

Julia Turner, Deputy Editor at Slate Magazine, has written an excellent series of articles on wayfinding signage. It includes these articles:

The Secret Language of Signs: They’re the most useful thing you pay no attention to. Start paying attention. 

Lost in Penn Station: Why are the signs at the nation’s busiest train hub so confusing?

Legible London: Can better signs help people understand an extremely disorienting city?

Do you draw good maps? A professor has been examining hand-drawn maps for three decades.

The Big Red Word vs. the Little Green Man: The international war over exit signs.

 A World Without Signs: Does the advent of GPS mean we’ll no longer need them?