Welcome to my personal blog, where I post occasional observations on design, report on my research project on Ireland's road signs and where I'll be posting some information on graphic design for students of design.
Signs and Portents is my visual blog, a scrapbook of design, inspiration, comment and the oddities of the 'interweb'.
For students of design: I'll be adding and posting some basic design information and design software tutorials.
Road sign design project
Starting back in 2005, I undertook an examination of Ireland's dual-language road signs.
Ireland's dual language road signs, research information...
- Read some essentials about the design project to improve our signs.
- Find out more about 'halation' and its importance for an ageing population.
- The prototype signs incorporate recent developments and research on road sign design.
Examining design alternatives to our current sign design
- Testing prototype solutions versus existing standards, see the results.
- Why use colour differentiation for languages?
- ’Drawing’ conclusions, the evolution of the Turas prototype system.
