Wayfinding

Wayfinding Project

Our first project this semester is all about wayfinding. Wayfinding encompasses all the ways in which people orient themselves in their environment and navigate from place to place. It is how we get from point A to point B. There are five basic elements that form the foundations of wayfinding. These include: paths, edges, districts, nodes and landmark. Each of these elements helps people get to where they need to go. For this project, our group was to choose a location on campus that could use wayfinding to help people reach their desired destination.

Final Lantern

This is my final lantern for this project. I am really happy with how it turned out. It looks really cool with the light on and adds a great reflection off of the walls when it is dark in the room.

Final Prototype

I decided that I wanted to find a way to combine my two prototypes. They both have really interesting elements and I decided to use both techniques for the final lantern.

Lantern Prototypes

I narrowed down my ideas into these two prototypes. The first one is really cool because of the way the light bounces off of all the folds. The second one involved a lot of layering and is really interesting when the light turns on.

Lantern Project

 For our last project, we experimented with light using bristol board in order to create a lantern. These are a few of my favorite preliminary models I created to brainstorm my idea.

Final Essay Book

My Essay Book

This is my final model of my photo essay book. I was really happy with the way it turned out. It is very simple and has a really sleek design.

Photo Essay Preliminaries

 These are the two book formats I was deciding between.  I decided to use the book shown on the left and make it out of card stock and glossy photo paper.