This growing suburban Chicago college—one of
the largest community colleges in Illinois—needed an updated
wayfinding system after the addition of a new performing arts center
and conference center.
The college's previous use of both letter designations
and names to identify its many buildings caused some wayfinding challenges,
as the names did not always reflect the ever-changing educational environment
within each building. By emphasizing letter designations rather than
names, and listing primary departments once at the building, Corbin
created a new system that allowed for both identification methods while
accommodating changing building functions. The three-foot-tall letters
installed high on each building also provided better identification
from a distance, a critical point on a 200-acre campus.
The interior system allows for easy updating through
the use of changeable paper inserts. The Harper blue and wave form
are carried throughout the boundary markers and waving banners into
the interior with building directories and room identifiers.