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Celebrating 30 YearsCorbin Design is celebrating its 30th anniversary! Founder Jeffry Corbin incorporated the firm in November 1976, and moved its offices to Traverse City in 1977.
Since our founding, we’ve been fortunate to become a national leader in wayfinding and signage system design, with hundreds of wayfinding projects for cities and towns, health care facilities, educational institutions, corporations, entertainment venues and resorts in the U.S. and Canada. We’ve also recently completed a transition to employee ownership, giving our staff an increased stake in the success of the firm and its clients.
Atlanta’s six million annual visitors now have new wayfinding tools at their disposal thanks to Corbin Design. Central Atlanta Progress and the Atlanta Downtown Improvement District hired Corbin to help people find their way to Peachtree Street and locate destinations around downtown and midtown Atlanta.
Corbin worked with Jones Worley Design of Atlanta and the Atlanta offices of URS Corp. on the project. The signage was fabricated and installed by APCO Graphics, Inc. of Atlanta and Pattison Sign Group of Norcross, Georgia. The 252 vehicular, pedestrian and map kiosk signs were installed late last year.
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Navigating Purdue Calumet
Purdue University Calumet in Hammond, Indiana has new exterior and interior wayfinding systems developed by Corbin Design to help students and visitors navigate its 167 acres and 16 buildings. One goal of the new system was to create a sense of place, to reinforce that the university’s 9,300 students and its visitors are on a university campus. Another was to better identify university buildings from campus parking. The system is designed to accommodate current construction projects and campus work through 2015.
Exterior wayfinding is now more visible and more consistent
for drivers, and it does a better job of defining the campus boundaries
and representing the Purdue University Calumet brand. The new interior
signage includes high-level public wayfinding for more than a dozen
buildings. ASI Modulex fabricated and installed the signs.
Retooling GM Signage
General Motors’ new Lansing Delta Township Assembly Plant outside Lansing, Michigan boasts site and building identification and directional signs based on the global signage standards that Corbin Design developed for GM.
This represents the fullest rollout of the standards to
date, with more than 90 identification and directional signs. Detroit’s
Fairmont Sign Company fabricated and installed the signs. Lettering on
the internally illuminated signs appears black during the day but glows
white at night, and the silver letters of the GM logo are among the first
application of a unique chrome film developed by 3M that allows the internal
illumination to shine through in the dark.