RGD Signage and Wayfinding Webinar: How Signage and Wayfinding Communicate Brand
How Signage and Wayfinding Communicate Brand
The Association of Registered Graphic Designers (RGD) hosted a webinar on August 9, 2023 about Signage and Wayfinding. Moderated by Angela Carter, the event was part of the RGD’s Wayfinding Webinars. Using different perspectives, John deWolf discussed how wayfinding and signage communicate brands.
Book Launch for contributing author, John deWolf
Book Launch for contributing author, John deWolf
A preface to Chapter 6—Halifax Explosion by Barbara Lounder sets the stage for contributions from Robert Bean, John deWolf, Paige Farah, Angela Henderson, Catherine Martin, and Juanita Peters. Mr. deWolf's essay examines the challenges involved in providing green space for surrounding neighbourhoods while simultaneously increasing the park's commemorative function.
Two Applied Arts 2018 Community Design Awards
Two very different projects
The Applied Arts Community Design Awards recognized for two very different projects—a rebrand for a provincial regulatory body, and a unique urban memorial to a devastating explosion. The 2018 Applied Arts Community Design Awards recognize design aimed at specific urban or provincial markets, across Canada. The Community Design awards assess like-sized entrants and recognize those designers who work with smaller, local clients, a small business or projects with a shoestring budget.
SEGD’s Global Design Awards—Fort Needham Memorial Park
Fort Needham Memorial Park—Global Design Award
Each year the Society for Experiential Graphic Design (SEGD) honours works in seven categories that show exceptional use of graphic design to communicate effectively, tell a story and create a strong sense of place. For the second year in a row, the EGD work for Fort Needham Memorial Park is amongst the finalists.
2018 Urban Design Awards—Fort Needham Memorial Park
Fort Needham Memorial Park—Excellence in Civic Design
After a hiatus of close to ten years, the 2018 Halifax Urban Design Awards were held on Friday, May 4, 2018, to celebrate achievements in Urban design. The Jury of Anne McIlroy (Principal at Brook McIlroy, Toronto), Maki Kawaguchi (Associate at Gehl, New York), Antonio and Gomez-Palacio (Principal at Dialog, Toronto) an Award of Excellence in Civic Design for Fort Needham Memorial Park.
Applied Arts feature—Fort Needham Memorial Park
A tribute to 100th Anniversary of the Halifax Explosion
Nickie Shobeiry looks at the work done for Fort Needham Memorial Park to commemorate the disaster and tell the story of the explosion, published on December 6, 2017, the 100th Anniversary of the Halifax Explosion, an urban green space dedicated to the explosion victims.