Focus Week 1 - Way Finding

Over the past few years of studying Landscape Architecture, my knowledge in this field has greatly improved/increased. Hence after visiting South Bank again a few days ago (after a good couple of months) it was fascinating to see how my 'design improving' mind was picking up on things and relating it back to what I had previously read or worked on.

One thing in particular was the way finding around the south bank area.

Way Finding is an important part of landscape architecture. It will help visitors/users of a certain landscape or park to be directed to certain landmarks or sites of interest across the landscape.

As I identified that his can be an important part of my upcoming projects, I spent time reading a book on the topic.

The Wayfinding Handbook: information design for public places - David Gibson

Although this book is intended for Graphic designers, it gave me a great insight and many ideas on way finding. This book describes the history of way finding to the planning and strategy of where they can go.

The author goes into great detail about topography, symbols and layout. This book is a very easy read, the detailing of images and interesting texts keeps you very interested!

Highly recommended!