Hunt Design Blog http://www.huntdesign.com/blog We are enthusiastic designers, planners and expert technicians practicing wayfinding signage design and exhibit design. Mon, 07 May 2012 13:00:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Exit Retail http://www.huntdesign.com/blog/exit-retail/ http://www.huntdesign.com/blog/exit-retail/#comments Mon, 07 May 2012 13:00:33 +0000 Hunt Design http://www.huntdesign.com/blog/?p=1362

Yes, this is the only way out.

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Trike Rack

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Durable Logos

If you don’t want your logo to fade away or peel off why not cast it in, weld it on or stencil-cut it out? Integral graphic design and signs also eliminate the added-on look and suggest permanence and strength. These durable logos will last as long as the objects they’re attached to. Probably longer.

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Colored Space?

No. The steel columns and pots in this public building are pure white; the floor dark grey. The rainbow of rich color is light transmitted through multi-colored translucent panels. And the effect changes during the day as the sun moves around the building in downtown Montreal.

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Cast in timeless bronze over ‘hand-made’ Art Deco-like letters, this handsome small sign has been part of the Salt Lake City streetscape since 1919.

10 West Broadway, Salt Lake City, Utah

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The aging blade sign identifying the empty Rialto Theatre, recently red tagged by South Pasadena’s building and safety department, will now be repaired and for the time being remain in place towering over Fair Oaks Avenue. The 87-year-old theater has been closed since 2010 and needs substantial structural work and restoration, but no such plans are in development. The blade sign is considered a defining feature of the beloved Rialto, now on the National Register of Historic Places. Officials are concerned that any substantial changes to the sign, or its removal, might affect the building’s historic status.

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A lot, apparently. Drivers approaching this Pasadena intersection are confronted with ten(!) traffic control signs and five visible signal heads. Each sign is meant to improve safety, but taken together, we’re not so sure the opposite effect has not been inadvertently achieved.

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CAUTION: Multi-cultural Children?

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It’s on the street. It has typography and pictures. Is it art or design? These otherwise function-driven utility boxes in Pasadena’s Playhouse District have been transformed by public artist Susan Silton.

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We always like a sign with a clear call-to-action, good typographic emphasis and effective use of an arrow.

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