Successful Efforts by the SEGD Accessible Design Task Force

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The SEGD Accessible Design Task Force and our friends at ISA are pleased to share that the desired outcome to defeat five key proposed changes to the International Code Council’s ICC A117.1 was successful. This first round of review included changes that would have increased visual character height in signage to 1”. This summer, the first draft of the next edition to the Standard for Accessible and Usable Buildings and Facilities manual will be available to the public for review, and will exclude the strongly opposed language.

The SEGD ADA Task Force: A Critical Need

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The SEGD ADA Task Force is a vital entity within the Society for Experiential Graphic Design (SEGD) that sits on the U.S. Access Board Council. The task force is made up of one principal voting member and two supporting advisors who work to safeguard the laws and regulations surrounding accessibility in the built environment.

Clean, Classic, Compelling—Wayfinding New York's Roosevelt Island

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Entro | CVEDesign (New York) joined forces with The Hudson Companies, Inc., the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation and the local community to provide an enduring wayfinding and placemaking solution for the area’s growing population.

Second Avenue Subway Wayfinding with C&VE

It’s a long story: a 98-year-long story, in fact. When the much-anticipated addition to the Q line of the New York City Subway initiated construction, Calori & Vanden-Eynden/Design Consultants began the highly-specialized work of wayfinding for the first new stations in nearly 30 years.

C&VE's Jessica Schrader Promoted to Senior Project Manager

Jessica Schrader has been promoted to Senior Project Manager at C&VE (New York). Since joining C&VE in 2013 Jessica has headed projects for SUNY’s College of Optometry in Manhattan, SUNY’s Life Sciences Building in Fredonia, Planned Parenthood of New York, The Riverside Church and Amtrak nation-wide, among others.

Empathy by Design at Planned Parenthood of NYC

Focused on reaching a very diverse audience with a message of comfort and safety, Calori &Vanden-Eynden designed the signage for Planned Parenthood of New York City’s new health and education center in Queens. The result is beautiful, economical, and so effective it has become the model for other similar centers across the country.

Jessica Schrader

Jessica Schrader is a Senior Project Manager at Entro and Co-Chair of the NYC Chapter

Jessica brings creative expertise and leadership skills to all of her Entro projects. Her focus is on the development and design of complex signage and wayfinding systems for a variety of national and international clients. She has performed design and leadership roles for hundreds of award-winning projects, and is accomplished in every aspect of environmental graphic design, from concept to close-out.

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New York City

Studio Director Amy Rees	Principal, Owner Tracy Revis	Principal Tom Geismar
Assistant Professor of Graphic Design and Interaction Design Yeohyun Ahn	Senior Project Designer Chris Haar	Assistant Project Manager Travis Clemens

SEGD

Jessica Schrader

Successful Efforts by the SEGD Accessible Design Task Force

The SEGD ADA Task Force: A Critical Need

Clean, Classic, Compelling—Wayfinding New York's Roosevelt Island

Second Avenue Subway Wayfinding with C&VE

C&VE's Jessica Schrader Promoted to Senior Project Manager

Empathy by Design at Planned Parenthood of NYC

Jessica Schrader

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