Studio Brief 1 - Wayfinding - Map Layout

Map design and placing of wayfinding elements

Large buildings are shown in block colour with the colour scheme representing the Leeds Coat of Arms and the same as the wayfinding elements. The varying lines represent the importance of roads, the dots represent directional points, places and viewing spots.

This design allows all the elements to stand out with no similar overlapping parts. The points and roads are the most important and are darker than the buildings creating contrast.

The arrows on the directional elements around the area need to be at 90 degrees when turning corners for it to be obvious where you are going. Numbers 10 and 11 can be removed and 12 and 16 need to be moved further up the road. The positions of the wayfinding directions are spread across the area equally.

The angles of the directions are at 45 degree intervals with left and right turns signified with 90 degree angles.

In the final designs the angle of the of the pictograms were changed to match the angle of the arrows. When the pictograms were lined up next to each other so they were pointing in the same direction this wasn’t very effective when viewing the directions from different angles.