Wayshowing
Publications
Wayfinding: People, Signs, and Architecture,
by Paul Arthur and Romedi Passini
Wayshowing: People, Signs and Architecture
While primarily focusing on urban and architectural settings, this text is widely considered as ground-breaking in its efforts introduce the concepts behind the topic of wayfinding.
This book brings together, for the first time, expertise on all three elements of which wayfinding is comprised: architecture; graphics; and verbal human interaction, within the context of the built environment. The authors take the reader from a better understanding of the many types of wayfinding difficulties that people have, and why they have them, through an explanation of what wayfinding is and how the process works, to detailed examinations of the architectural, graphic, audible and tactile components involved in wayfinding design. A prescription, in effect, for a much-needed, brand-new design discipline.
