Environmental Design, Uncategorized
Transit Design Derailed: How Environments Evolve Out of Control For every modern architectural transit masterpiece, there are hundreds of transit environments which have fallen into poor visual design decay. What is that? It’s got nothing to do with physical disrepair...
Environmental Design, Uncategorized
Ignoring the Signs Recently while doing a site analysis, we were watching pedestrian flow with a member of the transit facility staff. As we observed one particular area of confusion, the staff member off-handedly asked, “Why don’t people just read the signs?!?” It...
Environmental Design, Uncategorized
This is a continuation of a series of thoughts from my Transit Design Journal. Previous entries available here. Customer Happiness by Traveler Type The biggest complaints by transit passengers vary depending on the profile of the traveller, but generally fall into 2...
Environmental Design, Uncategorized
Introduction: Over the years, Show+Tell has worked on the Environmental Design / Signage Design of numerous Transit Centers in many major cities around the world. We’ve seen some great design and some not-so-great examples, both giving us a great record of “lessons...
Environmental Design, Uncategorized
Introduction: Over the years, Show+Tell has worked on the Environmental Design / Signage Design of numerous Transit Centers in many major cities around the world. We’ve seen some great design and some not-so-great examples, both giving us hundreds of “lessons...
Asia a go go, Uncategorized
While traveling in Singapore, we stayed at the whimsical Philippe Stark-designed South Beach Hotel. While everything about this hotel is a wild and crazy design experience, the piece that immediately impressed me was the large, high resolution digital video display...
