Ah ha!

What do you call a sign that is more than a sign? What if a sign has motion? What about a sign you can interact with? Two words: enhanced signage. Yes, I've come up with a way to describe my thesis. My updated proposal deals with enhanced signage. I'm interested in how signs can provide more information and/or provide the information in a more engaging way. At this point I've looked at regular signage systems and motion designs. I've even found a few interactive systems that are similar to what I've described while not exactly there. These are a little more on the commercial side of things and I think I'd like to explore more of information side of things, like airport or subway schedules or routes.

Links:

A Case for Interactive Digital Signage - few reasons for why to move to interactive signage

Adidas interactive digital signage from YDreams - video showing a large interactive piece done for Adidas

MegaPhone - A large scale, very interactive game

A few things I've found helpful

I've found a few places that are nice little web gems that may come in handy for some of you guys, on thesis work or just in general.

COLOURlovers.com - This is a pretty neat site that is all about color palettes and color combinations. Users can submit and rate different palettes, and download and import them into various programs that we all use - Illustrator, ect. 

ilovetypography.com - This site is just a blog detailing a lot of cutting edge typography uses in today's design. They showcase a lot of great work, and talk about anything new in the world of typography and type design. There are a lot of great articles here regarding typography for those who's thesis work is centered around type.

typographica.com - Many of you may already know about this website, but nevertheless this is a great website showcasing the new fonts and full type families that get published by the type foundries around the world. They do a lot of interviews with great typographers, type designers, and designers as well as showcasing some design work. 

Also, Rob told me about a great typography book that may be helpful for you guys who are doing typographic oriented thesis projects. The book is called Designing Type, by Karen Cheng. She does an excellent job of creating a book that centers around the issues that involve designing modern typefaces and letterforms. 

For those of you presenting this Friday, best of luck!

-cf