DesignDeSign

A sign. A-signs. Visual and Physical clutter

dwayne — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 21:31:54 +0000

“TORONTO – They promote sales, list daily food specials and point the way to new businesses, but sandwich boards — technically known as A-frame signs — also turn sidewalks into obstacle courses for pedestrians.

The ubiquitous signs are even more of an irritant to people who are visually impaired or in wheelchairs.

Presentation – MMEDIA 1A03

dwayne — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 05:59:52 +0000

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Coline McFarlane – “Learning the City”

dwayne — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 23:29:04 +0000

Walking is central to how we come to learn urban space. This is not just a spatial learning of urbanism, but a temporal practice of place, and is part of a wider set of rhythms that characterize urban spaces. (50)

“Cities have long been transit points of mobile exchange that have propelled multiple rhythms of different temporalities and speeds, from daily rhythms of work, school and nightlife to economic cycles of accumulation and disinvestment and cultural flows of migrants.” 53

David Pinder – “Visions of the City”

dwayne — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 23:14:53 +0000

“Clean up, reorder, purify: the themes famously ran through Le Corbusier’s writings and utopian urban projects from the early 1920s” (65)

While an emphasis in Le Corbusier’s writings deal with the reordering of physical space, perhaps new information systems and effective signage and wayfinding is causing a perceptual reodering.

Cityscapes : cultural readings in the material and symbolic city

dwayne — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 02:05:00 +0000

Alan Broadbent – Urban Nation: Why we need to give power back to the cities to make Canada strong.

dwayne — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:42:00 +0000

Cities have never been well defined in a simplified federal-provincial-municipal framework.

Network Packets

dwayne — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:43:00 +0000

via Human Transit: intriguing new book on jane jacobs and her transporation (email of the week)

dwayne — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:38:00 +0000

Module 4.0 – Signs as Hypertext and ‘Education in Place’

dwayne — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:39:35 +0000

Art of the Danforth: AUC Workers (Artists Under-Cover)

dwayne — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:28:17 +0000

AUC is an informal, seemingly spontaneous performance art piece. Temporary sign installations are done by re-construction workers TIMEANDESIRE. Follow the festival map and explore their temporary signs scattered throughout Zone B.

Sites: 1913 Danforth Ave – storefront, Danforth Ave & Bastedo Ave – north side, Danforth Ave & Woodington Ave – north corner at TD Bank, and other sites).

Thanks to Chris Terry for the link.