One really unique one that I came across was Tourist Wayfinding in Matera.
I popped together a few of the key photos that showed why I liked it. So what they did was take landmarks, and use them to create icons/symbols. Then those symbols translated into patterns and colours which then carried across into a wayfinding system. I really liked the use of landmarks, as we have a lot of great landmarks around Wellington that we could use in a similar way.
http://dropr.com/stefaniavolpe/47843/tourist_wayfinding_for_matera_2/+?p=320635
Another precedent I looked into was Talk To: Torino Speaks clearly.
This caught my attention when I saw the way bollards had been used to generate wayfinding. It was another example where a dialogue had been created for the project in terms of the colour coded split between services, leisure, and culture, and a series of symbols had been generated within these codes. It would be interesting to see what/if any of these could carry across from Europe and be applicable in New Zealand as one of the issues with this project is that you're trying to make things easy for people from a variety of different places. Then as I looked deeper into the project I saw that they had carried this idea out across more permanent structures in the city which is such a great use of what is already available and excited my even more.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/5801615/Talk-To-Torino-parla-chiaro
And lastly, I came across an interesting article that kind of covered the landmark technique I'd considered earlier. It broke down the process that they'd been through in a really simple visual manner which I thought would be interesting to share with my group at our meeting on Tuesday.
https://makeapowerfulpoint.wordpress.com/tag/tourist/
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