Several beautiful pieces of artwork were provided to create this graphic panel to be used at the entrance to Gumma Indigenous Protected Area near Macksville NSW. The artworks are by local aboriginal Gumbaynggirr artists and were a great source of inspiration for the design of the panel.
And until I get down there and take a photo here’s a mockup of what it will look like on the sign.
Final signage for Golden Hole
- Clybucca Historic Site
- 950mm wide x 450mm high
- 306 words including heading
- 2038 characters including spaces
- The line drawing artwork was provided by Sharon Smith and rendered for the signage
- Developed in conjunction with NPWS and the Office of Environment and Heritage
Draft versions
The original drafts had the content as a continuous story. For ease of reading and to provide visual anchor points headings were added in to provide a quick overview of… Continue reading
Tips & information on how much content to use
This information can be applied to signage, interpretive display panels and posters. For the purpose of this blog I’ll refer to them as signs.
I’ve broken the types of signs into 3 areas and have provided examples of most … a picture paints a thousand words – so the examples should tell you what to aim for in your projects:
- Informative – high content
- Interpretive – medium content
- impact – (you… Continue reading
Specifications for high content signage
- Size: 1500mm x 1000mm = 1.5m2
- Word Count – 1900. Character Count – 12000
- Client: Kempsey Council
- Text content covers roughly 1/3 of the panel but it is at a very small point size. Main body text is 24 points, with a large proportion including captions in 18 point.
- Images cover almost the other 2/3 of the panel with very little white space …(lets’ say 5/9 with 1/9 of the panel white space).
- The extra… Continue reading
Glenn Innes Land Council Signage
Design Brief – To create a series of interpretive signs for the Glenn Innes Aboriginal Land Council. The Willows has been with the Glen Innes Land Council since the early 1980s. The property name comes from the large amounts of willows that used to grow along the banks of the Severn River. The adjoining Aboriginal-owned property is called Boorabee.
In 2010 they were declared an Indigenous Protected Area.
Birds - Interpretive Sign for Willow Boorabee
Production tips and information
I will be adding images and more information as it comes to light.
Dimensions
- Specify your dimensions – width x height
- Good proportions for a small freestanding sign are 600 x 300 mm
- Good proportions for a large freestanding sign are 1200 x 1000 mm
Posts
- If the width is greater than 600 mm it will need two posts
- Is the sign to be angled at 45 degrees so that people can look down and read… Continue reading
