A new children's hospital with LEED ambitions takes an organic approach to wayfinding.
It’s not often that hospital wayfinding systems are created from the ground up, but when new construction is involved, designers have a rare opportunity to integrate wayfinding cues into the architectural fabric of the building. And when that hospital is built to LEED standards, a whole new vocabulary of materials and processes is created.
Michele Phelan is the founding principal of 96pt. LLC - a collaborative of print, architectural graphic design and strategic marketing professionals who provide services for residential, higher ed, corporate, and health care clients. Prior to 96pt., Michele worked as Co-Director of Graphic Design at Sasaki Associates, and held leadership positions at a few Boston based design studios.
2010 SEGD Fellow, 1995 Angel Award honoree, and SEGD President 1992-1993
Virginia Gehshan and Jerome Cloud were the recipients of the SEGD Fellow Award in 2010. They have built their practice on intellectual rigor, systemic thinking, and a user-centered approach to information architecture.
Mark VanderKlipp has been a design professional for 30 years. Twenty four of those years were with Corbin Design, an environmental graphic design firm that specializes in wayfinding systems for healthcare, higher education and civic clients.
Designers involved with creating experiences in the built environment must be aware of making their communications accessible to people of all ability levels.
You get to do what you like to do and I, with you, get to do what I like to do. You get to design, I get to detail.
And in the era of mission statements, mine (in eight words!) is this:
Preserving and honoring your design through articulate documentation.
The purpose of my work is for you to have the results you seek.
This translates to the detailing and documentation/ packaging of your work for fabrication/ installation that will free you to focus on doing what you enjoy doing - design.
