The restroom elevator ambiguity
byPictograms have been around for almost a century now, and in the last fifty years they have undergone systematic standardization and refinement. It’s all…
Visual design
Next slide please.
byLast monday I had quite an important meeting: the Career Office gave us an update on new policies for recruiting students: serious matter, requiring…
Surrealism: the last resource against user-centered design
byIn our campus in Abu Dhabi, accessing a building via a five minutes walk can be a very pleasant experience during winter; and a really…
If you miss your bus-bus in Lyly-onon: get a tata-xixi!
byOn a recent trip to Lyon I found a taxi stand sign which does at least one part of its job very well. After…
On Bins, Benches and Bus stops in Rome.
byEvery day we navigate a space designed by others. Or, to be more precise, a series of spaces designed in specific ways to address…
Icon capture
byIcons are icons. The Hilton Hotel is an icon. A token-icon, in the sense that there is only one brand around. The smartphone is…
Swim well and live 150 years
byThere are many ways to remember an artist. The authorities of the Island of Capri have done something quite creative when they decided to…
Size Matters
byNature is on display in a couple of nice photographic exhibit in Paris. It’s a great concept: oversize pictures on the walls…
Gibellina vs Ground Zero – memorials and epic architecture
byWhat can we expect from architecture? That it overwhelms emotionally? Countless visitors of the Taj Mahal in Agra, India, know what it is to…
Can we kindly redesign all the signage systems in the world, please?
byAfter my lecture on wayfinding and typefaces at Paris DEC, last friday, I have received an interesting feedback from my friend Valeria Giardino, a…