This unrivalled handbook is a guide to the world of exhibition design, exploring what constitutes successful design and how it works. It clarifies the roles of the various design skills involved in exhibition design, and explores how new technology and materials expand the possibilities for both form and function. It also describes the tools and processes for design and manufacture, methods of prototyping, and means of transporting, assembling and dismantling exhibits.

What is Exhibition Design? provides a stunning, diverse portfolio of cutting-edge work from designers and studios around the world. Like the other titles in the Essential Design Handbooks series, this will be essential reading for every professional and student involved with exhibition design.

(Release date: August 30, 2007)

Helvetica (2007)

Did you miss the screening of Helvetica at the 2007 Conference + Expo in
Boston? See it now! Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about
typography, graphic design, and global visual culture. It looks at the
proliferation of one typeface as part of a larger conversation about the way
type affects our lives. The film is an exploration of urban spaces in major
cities and the type that inhabits them, and a fluid discussion with renowned
designers about their work, the creative process, and the choices and
aesthetics behind their use of type.

segdDESIGN
The full-color magazine of EGD is now available by subscription! This quarterly publication includes project profiles, technology columns, interviews and much more.

SEGD Knowledge Package
Outdoor Legibility Resource Collection

SEGD Knowledge Packages contain program information related to a specific area of environmental graphic design. The Outdoor Legibility Resource Collection is an important resource for anyone in outdoor sign and wayfinding design. It contains resources developed over the last five years, including:

• Urban Legibility Workshop CD
• Excerpts from other workshop CDs
• Teleconference courses on wayfinding and legibility
• USSC research documents
• Certification audit procedures
• Articles from segdDESIGN magazine
• Chapters on urban design from Wayfinding: Designing and Implementing Graphic Navigational Systems
• Excerpts from Direction • Philadelphia Urban Sign Workbook
• ITE magazine articles
• Research reports
• Portfolio of projects
• Bibliography

Cost:
$210 for members
$250 for non-members

ADA White Paper Update 2006: Guidelines, Best Practices, and Innovation for Signs for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Parts One and Two: Executive Summary/What is the ADA
Parts Three and Four: Typography for the Blind/Typography for the Sighted
Parts Five and Six: Position of Text and Braille on Signs/Color Contrast
Part Seven: Braille

Part Eight: ADA Enforcement
Part Nine: Innovation
Part Ten:California's Title 24 and Other State Enforcement
Part Eleven: Summary of Recommendations
Part Twelve: Addendum
Part Thirteen: Color Contrast, Finish, and the ADA
Includes the 1993 SEGD ADA White Paper
Free to members in Member Area of website.
Non-member $40

The Shakespear Reel
Available by popular demand! Ronald Shakespear of Diseno Shakespear in Argentina presented at the SEGD 2006 Annual Conference in Hollywood. Due to numerous requests for his reel, it’s being offered at $25, all of which goes to benefit the SEGD 21st Century Knowledge Initiative.

Wayfinding: Designing and Implementing Graphic Navigational Systems
Sponsored by SEGD, Edited by Craig M. Berger with content contributions from the SEGD membership

As public spaces increase in number and complexity, people need to know where they are and where they are going. To bring clarity to confusion, graphic design is crucial and effective design of wayfinding systems must be a collaborative process. Wayfinding (RotoVision/November 2005/$45.00 hardcover) is the ultimate guide for graphic designers, architects, landscape architects, industrial designers, and planners working in this field. Written by leading experts across a wide range of fields, Wayfinding reveals, through exciting illustrations and case studies, ways to incorporate logos, graphics, color, and type to relate a complete wayfinding system to the character of a city, exhibition, or other environment and successfully represent its unique qualities. Checklists of requirements and "tool kits" of elements provide a blueprint for developing successful and attractive wayfinding systems. Every aspect is detailed: stakeholder groups; criteria of specific jobs; design elements; fabrication, installation and placement of signs and banners; and maintenance and management systems.

Official Signs & Icons 2 by Ultimate Symbol
By Mies Hora
4,811 EPS vector images on CD-ROM with a 240-page, four-color hardcover
companion book. This massive new resource is the most comprehensive
compendium of current standard signs, symbols, icons and labels ever
assembled. Ask about SEGD member discounts!
Available at www.ultimatesymbol.com.

Signage and Wayfinding Design is an essential reference for design professionals who must communicate meaningful information in the built environment. Written to be both comprehensive and accessible, this vital resource shows how to apply a holistic, proven design method to large and small signage projects in an efficient and systematic manner.

In this practical guide, author Chris Calori outlines her proven "Signage Pyramid" method. This approach divides signage into three interrelated focus areas and components—the Information Content System, the Graphic System, and the Hardware System—making it easier to solve the often complex design problems posed in a comprehensive signage program. Signage and Wayfinding Design gives professionals an in-depth view of the environmental graphic design (EGD) process from research and design development through project execution, and:

• Offers a wealth of illustrative examples from real-world projects
• Covers approaches to project documentation, including sign typing and message schedule management
• Explains nomenclature and numbering systems
• Illustrates how signage creates and reinforces brand identity
• Provides an overview of sign materials, coating, and finishes
• Highlights code and Americans with Disabilities Act considerations
• Includes more than 250 images and 32 pages of color images

By taking a cross-disciplinary approach, the author makes the information relevant for graphic designers, architects, interior designers, landscape architects, and industrial designers. Clients who engage EGD professionals will also gain valuable insights.

Wayfinding PictograficSystems: Nonverbal, Universal
By Paul Arthur & Branimir Zlamalik
Available at www.paularthur-wayfinding.com

WAYFINDING People, Signs, and Architecture
by Paul Arthur & Romedi Passini
Back in print!
Available at www.paularthur-wayfinding.com

AIGA/DOT Transportation Symbols
Convenient camera-ready artwork of 50 international symbols developed by the AIGA for transportation-related facilities. One Macintosh CD in Adobe Illustrator 9.