Long Lake Provincial Park is located within the Halifax Municipal Region. It's a popular spot for hiking, jogging, swimming, and kayaking. Most of them have no idea that the park was essential to building Halifax with its granite, lumber, and drinking water.
As an exercise, we had the opportunity to develop a system of interpretive signage to tell the story of Halifax's many parks. My system design revolves around the theme of "reliance". Not only had Halifax relied upon this land to grow the city we know today, but the land now relies on us to keep it clean and healthy. "Reliance" helped influence every design decision, from the construction of the signage to the type of content displayed upon it. The full system includes three styles on interpretive signage, parking lot entry signs, and themed lamp posts for the parking lot and main pathways.
Parti Pris: the core of this class revolved around the idea of developing an encompassing theme to anchor the design choices of the project.
Visual Guidelines Part 1: demonstrates the colour palette, type style, and photo treatment to be applied to the signage.
Visual Guidelines Part 2: demonstrates the material guidelines for the construction of the signage.
Signage Concept 1: Can display up to four stories, with one side representing the history of the park and the other representing current stewardship efforts.
Sign Concept 2: Can display two stories, one on either side of the post, with related themes.
Signage Concept 3: Can display up to two stories, designed to be placed along the edge of the trail and provide a viewport to a relevant landmark or sight.
Lamp post design to tie into the visual identity, can replace the ones located in the parking lots as well as be installed along the main paths.
PArking Lot entry sign, to designate the space as one of three unnamed parking lots in the park.
