HARMON FINE ARTS CENTER Drake University
CONTENTS overview
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4-5 before + after signs + symbols
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floor maps
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colophon
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OVERVIEW Harmon Fine Arts Center aka FAC needed a little more color since it is the center for the arts at Drake, yet right now, it is very bare and bland. So to fulfill this need of color, I would suggest that the walls and ceilings should be painted. There will be four colors each representing the fine arts, music arts, theatre arts and the administrative offices. This environmental wayfinding system will make it easy for students and vistors to figure out how to manuever through the building. Along with the painted walls, there will be a new system of icons and signage that will help guide users through the building. Each door that leads to stairs will be clearly marked with signs. There will also be signs that indicate where public spaces are that will make it easier to navigate to. The best case scenario would be that the ceilings would be painted and the carpet would be lighter, yet I feel as though being surround by color just on the walls would be a great start. The Dean’s of Art and Sciences office would be orange, which I feel is a welcoming color and would be easy to pick out from all the rest. Then the music halls would be purple, it’s a calming color to such an energetic area. The studio arts areas would be a light green, because I feel like it’s vibrant and lively, and lastly the theatre arts would be an aqua because it is a very dramatic color and will help brighten up the basement where a majority of theatre arts rooms are located. In the following two pages you will find before and after photos of the walls unpainted and then painted and large scale signs painted onto the actual walls that indicate what department you are at.
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BEFORE dean’s office
theatre arts
music practice rooms and studios
drawing room, offices, women’s restroom
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AFTER
SIGNS + SYMBOLS In the next few pages you will find examples of new signs and symbols that will represent the building. For the signs, the colors of each sign will depend on what is directly behind the door. For example, you will see a green sign located right when you walk in the main entrance and arrive in the lobby area and the weeks gallery. The green shade in the same color utilized on the walls of the studio art hallways because it is located in the Weeks gallery. The sign indicates what you can find and get to on this lower level and I use arrows to point in the direction that you need to go to get to each location, whether it be a performance, an exhibition at the Anderson gallery or you just need to find the restrooms. This sign is an example that would probably be utilized at the north entrance as well, but it would point up and down and direct what you can get to from that lobby area. As for the next sign, it is just one example of signage that would be on the doors as you are walking up the stairs, and it will allow visitors to know exactly what they can find and what they can get to if they walk through that door. For the second floor, there was quite a bit of information that I added, but I feel like it makes a lot more sense and would help navigate. If there was no men’s and women’s restroom in the same area the sign would point up or down and indicate where the other restroom was. Then a map of the floor you are at would also accompany the sign on the wall right next to it, so visitors can get an idea of how far they will have to go to reach their destination. Then, the symbols are pretty self-explanatory. The icons would be lasercut on black plexi or a solid black plastic and mounted directly on the door. The faculty names on office doors will be vinyl that could be easily removed. All doors would be kept the same color except for stairway doors which would be painted black with a white sign to differentiate the door types.
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SIGNS main entrance
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SIGNS
FLOOR 2 DEAN’S OFFICE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES FACULTY OFFICES
studio art + design 281 - 283 music 232 - 239, 250, 254 - 259 theatre 257 - 265
RESTROOMS MUSIC PRACTICE MUSIC CLASSROOMS music studios 240 - 259 classroom 204
PERFORMING ARTS HALL
door to second floor from north entrance
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SYMBOLS
FENDER
women’s restroom floor 1
men’s restroom floor 1
classroom floor 1
faculty office floor 1
DREISS
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door to stairs every floor
women’s restroom floor 2
men’s restroom floor 2
classroom floor 2
faculty office floor 2
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FLOOR MAPS In the next few pages you will find re-design maps of FAC that will be placed at every entrance along the walls as well as on the wall next to the doors from the staircases that accompany signs indicating what you can get to from that specific door that I outlined above. The maps are color coordinated in the same way the walls will be painted to indicate what department you are in, which translates very well and makes it easier for the viewer to understand. Each map lays out each floor of the building with a key that provides information about what the symbols and colors mean. They are very clean and laid out by shapes and no outline. The large and public areas are labeled specifically while clasrroms and offices are labeled by room number. I feel as though these maps are very effective and simplified to the point where it will be a lot easy to navigrate through the buildings and make it less frustrating.
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010
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SCENE SHOP
057
EXPERIMENTAL THEATER 053
MONROE RECITAL HALL 034
042 044
036
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administration
stairs
studio arts
fire extinguisher
theatre arts
mens restroom
music arts
womens restroom
elevator
exit
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025-026
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BASEMENT 11
NORTH ENTRANCE
ENTRANCE
ENTRANCE
PERFORMING ARTS HALL
WEEKS GALLERY
CE
ANDERSON GALLERY
BOX OFFICE
IN
EN TR
AN
TURNER JAZZ CENTER
stairs
studio arts
fire extinguisher
theatre arts
mens restroom
music arts
womens restroom
elevator
exit
FLOOR 1 MA
administration
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266 - 277
PERFORMING ARTS HALL
259 274 257 258 278 279 261 265 281 - 283 254 256
232 - 251
MUSIC PRACTICE
250
administration
stairs
studio arts
fire extinguisher
theatre arts
mens restroom
music arts
womens restroom
elevator
exit
204
FLOOR 2 13
340
338 - 339
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345 346
322 - 327
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334 - 335
328 - 330
administration
stairs
studio arts
fire extinguisher
theatre arts
mens restroom
music arts
womens restroom
elevator
exit
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MUSIC PRACTICE
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FLOOR 3 14
422 - 430
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administration
stairs
studio arts
fire extinguisher
theatre arts
mens restroom
music arts
womens restroom
elevator
exit
MUSIC PRACTICE
405 - 410
401 - 404
FLOOR 4 15
COLOPHON This book has been designed by Meanz Chan, under the direction of John Fender as part of th course Content + Audience at Drake University in Spring 2012. It was designed using Adobe InDesign CS5.5 on a Macintosh Computer. It is set in Futura, a sans serif type face designed by Paul Renner in 1927. This book has been produced in an edition of one. FUTURA BOLD ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopq rstuvwxyz 0123456789 FUTURA BOOK ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ a b c d ef g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u vw x y z 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 78 9 Meanz Chan May 9, 2012
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CONTENT + AUDIENCE Meanz Chan Spring 2012
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