Corbin Design President Mark VanderKlipp and Marketing
Director Shelley Steele will be touring the country this fall, making
appearances at conferences in New York, Chicago and Texas.
On Sept. 6, Mark will give a joint presentation to the International
Downtown Association (IDA) with Jennifer Ball, Vice President of
Planning for Central
Atlanta Progress. The two will describe how Corbin
and Central Atlanta Progress improved how visitors navigate Atlanta
at the IDA’s annual conference in New York City. Shelley will also
be on hand, staffing Booth 53. Click
here for more information.
On Oct. 3, Mark will team with Barbara Natal, Project Manager for
Campus Development at Chicago’s Northwestern Memorial Hospital,
to deliver a case study on designing interactive kiosks for healthcare
environments, while Shelley staffs Booth 304. The presentation takes
place at the 20th
Annual Healthcare Facilities Symposium & Expo in Chicago.
For more information, click
here.
Shelley will also attend November’s Healthcare
Design.07 conference in Dallas November 4-6, at the Gaylord
Texan Resort. If you’re in the
neighborhood, stop by Booth 109 and say hello!
Greenville gets first Fox Cities wayfinding
The town of Greenville, Wisconsin, has become the first to install directional and identification signs designed by Corbin as part of a regional visitor wayfinding system for the Fox Cities area. The signs were manufactured by IntelliCAM, a Greenville-based firm, and installed in July.
Corbin worked with the Fox Cities Convention & Visitors Bureau to create the system, which divides the Fox Cities into four wayfinding districts—Appleton Area, Heart of the Valley, Lake District and Fox West—and uses a range of sign types to direct visitors to the districts and individual destinations within each. The total cost to build and install the entire system is estimated at about $750,000.
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Signs point to the future
At
the Society for Environmental Graphic Design’s annual conference
in Boston this past May, our firm answered a challenge issued
by Accent Signage of Minneapolis to design a unique wayfinding system
using Accent’s Raster
Braille. Our assignment was to develop interior signs
for a cutting-edge cancer center. The final product drew rave
reviews from conference attendees.
The system draws its inspiration from consumer electronics and medical equipment. Layers of translucent acrylic frame the information while softening the signs’ appearance, allowing them to harmonize with the environment while providing critical information.
The futuristic design is balanced by rounded corners and edges and tone-on-tone colors. The acrylic used to build the signs works well in healthcare settings since its nonporous surface resists stains and is easily sterilized. The unobtrusive design of the system and its ability to be customized to different environments allow it to be used in other high-tech settings.
LA Walks Wins SEGD Award
Corbin Design’s wayfinding program for downtown Los Angeles, developed with Hunt Design of Pasadena, won a Jury Award from the Society for Environmental Graphic Design in May. The project was overseen by Urban Place Consulting Group of Long Beach.
The $2 million program, which encourages people to park their cars and walk around a city notorious for its traffic, directs visitors to 13 districts and to more than 2,000 destinations.
The system of 1,300 signs, maps and other wayfinding elements was built and installed by Fluoresco Lighting & Signs.
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Old and New Faces
Doug Schultz, who worked with Corbin as a designer previously, has returned to the firm after a five-year sabbatical. His current clients include Scripps Health in San Diego, Penn State’s Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, and the University of Virginia Health System’s Clinical Cancer Center.
New designer Sean Tobin is a graduate of the Kendall College of Art and Design. His Corbin clients include Scripps Health and Harrisburg Area Community College in Pennsylvania.