In this installment of Design To Go, Diane Burk travels to Spain, visiting the beautiful city of Barcelona. The biggest city on the Mediterranean, Barcelona is a cultural, economic, entertainment, educational and tourism center for Southern Europe. The city is home to famous architectural works of Antoni Gaudí, and boasts both many UNESCO World Heritage sites and museums to visit.
Why should you and your Firm be members of SEGD? There are many reasons, but the one most often cited and cherished is the warmth, friendliness and helpfulness of the members. But there is a growing alternative reason: Marketing ROI
Humans aren’t the only ones looking for a relief area.
Beginning in 2009, the Department of Transportation required all airlines to make sure there are animal relief areas at airports, and escorts to those relief areas, for any passenger traveling with a service animal. As a result, airports everywhere have created and expanded animal relief areas that are open to all pets as well as service animals. Most animal and pet relief areas were located outside the airport terminals.
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In a confounding mess of confusing and ambiguous street naming, the terrific downtown area of Minneapolis has one of the worst street name systems of any medium size US city.
Experiential Graphic Design is an increasingly dynamic facet of IA’s practice, and one that reached a tipping point last year. “Clients are really starting to appreciate and understand what EGD brings to the table and requesting the service upfront, especially as the experiential side of design also becomes more valued,” says firm Co-CEO Tom Powers.
By Jan Ashdown,Senior Design Consultant at ptc.
If in the past, goods manufacturers added services to their offer to differentiate themselves, today we see organizations staging experiences to get ahead of the competition.
The 2018 SEGD Conference Experience Minneapolis delivered the highest satisfaction score for an SEGD conference since the great recession. Read about the progress we are making on our education resources and more.
I’m a firm believer in the development of new and more powerful ways to visually communicate important messages non-verbally. But caution is appropriate when attempting to replace a well-established and vitally important societal icon with something that has not been fully usability tested, approved by relevant public regulators, or that has survived the rigors of a comprehensive design process.
