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Parting of the ways

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Graphics designers do not agree with architects when it comes to signing. Architecs demand that signs be small so as not to detract attention away from the architectural design. Graphic designers claim that signs communicate and supplement the environment. Brian Avery of Avery Associates was commissioned to design signs for the South Bank's Museum of the Moving Image. The building was made of five storeys, so Avery chose to provide a colour coded directory board in the entrance which was backed up with signs elsewhere in the building at eye level. This was selected in preference to a rival graphics designer, which submitted a plan for signs suspended from the ceiling.

Evaluation, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Signage, Designers, Avery, Bryan

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A business park for the world

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The pavilions of the 112 countries that will be represented at Expo '92, just outside Seville, Spain, had to be designed without any knowledge of the architecture of neighbouring buildings. Not only does the 215 hectare Expo '92 site suffer from a lack of overall harmony in its buildings, but higher than expected demand for space means that the architecture of certain pavilions will lose some of its impact. The planning of the Expo '92 site and the design of some of the pavilions is discussed.

Buildings and facilities, Expo '92

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