Custom wayfinding plans are just an email away. Connect with us today to learn how we can develop a unique wayfinding system for your municipality, park or centre. We will work with you to create a modern system that can be integrated with digital resources that conveys your brand - whether it is clean and modern or warm and rustic.
In addition to designing the wayfinding elements, we can also develop graphical maps, digital maps, interpretive signage and unique visitor experiences.
Key roles of Park Wayfinding:
In developing park wayfinding, we understand that it is about much more than maps and trail markers. Wayfinding provides both physical and psychological support to park users, enabling them to plan their visit effectively and safely. We incorporate the following roles of wayfinding into our systems:
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Orientation and navigation: wayfinding provides visitors with the information needed to successfully and with confidence access and use the park trails. Wayfinding helps overcome physical and psychological barriers to park usage, providing information on direction, distance and difficulty of park trails.
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Features, services and facilities: Wayfinding signage can provide users with an effective overview of park facilities, points of interest, and services, enabling users to explore further and with greater engagement.
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User safety and park values: Park wayfinding signage provides users with information about trail hazards, realistic hiking times, park regulations and directs users to the most applicable emergency services should the need arise.
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Encourage park use/recreation/exploration: Wayfinding signage is informational in nature and encourages guests to make use of the park and trails and explore significant features. Interpretive signage can support this role by assisting visitors to make deeper personal connections and meaning through first hand experience with park resources.
Key principles of Park Wayfinding:
Page Graphics uses the following principles in the development of our wayfinding signage:
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Be Consistent: Wayfinding is a language that should be clear, simple and speak to the broadest range of users possible. Consistent content and styling is a requirement.
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Be Accessible: Waynding signage should follow AODA guidelines to make it accessible. We use a number of resources to determine accessibility.
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Be Empowering: Park signage should promote the local character of the park and its community. Good signage should empower people to maximize use of the park. It should also enable equitable use of the resource.
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Minimal Environmental Impact: End of use considerations should be taken into account when designing new signage. As little as possible should end up in our landfills. To maximize the lifespan of our signs, we use a modular approach to development so that damaged components can be replaced, individual elements can be recycled or reused and as little impact as possible should be made on the environment during installation.