Uniform signage can be a good thing.  Note how useful uniform signage
on roads is.  Compare navigating a town where the street signs are
located and presented uniformly, to a town where they are not.  Not all
buildings are so intuitively navigated that signage is a secondary
feature.  However, if the signage is necessary for a reasonable person
to navigate the building, the designer should be dealt with...harshly.

-jc


On Nov 25, 2003, at 5:40 AM, Gabriel Orgrease wrote:

> Met History wrote:
>
>> Why is "uniform signage" one of those things that people just accept
>> as "good"?
>
> I would refer to the essay by Walter Benjamin in which he discusses the
> perception of art as either the object in an of itself, or through the
> reading of the label on the wall. A sign on a building is not the
> building and does not bring with it all of the flavor of the building,
> but reading the sign, or knowing the name of a building I think to an
> extent gives one a feeling of knowing the building, though in reality
> only knowing a sign. In this sense in a sort of perverted conceptual
> assumption of knowledge one may prefer standardized signage as it gives
> a sense of order to the substantive lack of intimate knowledge.
>
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