Illuminated Signage
Concept pieceSelf-directed design workSkyline Observatory Signage
A self-directed study in signage that competes with a night sky instead of a streetscape.
- Category
- Illuminated Signage
- Built from
- Proposed: weathering steel, sandblasted glass, shielded warm LED
- Type
- Concept piece
The premise
The premise: identify and guide visitors across a hilltop site without adding light pollution that harms the view.
The concept
A concept we developed to explore signage for a dark-sky site, where the usual rules invert. Bright signage would ruin the thing visitors came for, so the system leans on low, warm, downward-cast light and high-contrast daytime forms. The wordmark is designed to be legible by starlight and a phone torch, not by floodlight.
Concept deliverables
- Exterior sign family concept
- Low-light path marker study
- Daytime and night legibility mockups
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