Study Of The Design Of Wayfinding Signs Within The Museum Environment

The design of wayfinding signs is a practical course which stipulates the rules and provides convence for readers. Nowadays it isapplied all over the world, it aims at affording facilities for combining pictogram and wayfinding information together , and communicating diretly with readers as an intermedium of spreading information , thus realizing the function of wayfinding.As the cultural communicating carrier, meseum has the feature of openness and shoulders the essential task of serving the public and society.In China ,with the free charge,the museum administors face many new research subjects, such as how to distribute readers so as to avoid congestion, how to meet the need of reader′s aesthetic demands. In order to increase the influence of the museum on the social culture and cope with the development of the age, the construction of the meusem needs to introduce modern design principles. The efficient wayfinding system, reasonable visiting route and the most human nature design service are proposed on the desk.Therefore, the study of the design of wayfinding signs with the museum envirnment is significant both in practice and reality.This thesis takes the practical and aesthetic function of wayfinding signs within the museum environment as its topic .It its research field, through the analysis on the meaning of general signs, the visual guiding function of the formal elements and the aesthetic psychology about the wayfinding signs, this thesis aims to perfect the understanding of the design of wayfinding signs within the museum environment, explore the practical and aesthetical design principle of the wayfinding signs under the museum environment and display the potential aesthetical ideas. Therefore, This study devolops the space on the play of the wayfinding sign and provides beneficial complement to the functions of the visual guiding pictogram,shapes and colors.By using museum investigation and concrete analysis, combining the successful examples of the wayfinding signs within the museum environment, collecting plenty of picture data, this thesis focus on its topic,emphasizes on its point and tries to apply the design principles, its creative ideas and its relevant conclusion of this research into the design of wayfinding signs within the museum environment.