Airport Wayfinding
This book reflects on the centenary of civil aviation from the perspective of passenger information and airport identity. Airports and Airlines have to integrate new concepts and technologies to significantly reduce the industry’s carbon footprint while simultaneously ensuring traveler safety.
The Challenge
Why is the Frutiger typeface still in use at so many major airports today? How does the design of the signage system shape an airport?
Global climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic are two of the most profound challenges currently facing commercial aviation, an industry which has been defined by perpetual fast-paced transformation throughout its eventful first century.
Project Vision
This book celebrates the centenary of aviation, providing a snapshot of what has been and what is yet to come.
Especially in light of the challenges facing the transport sector due to climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic, the team’s aim has been to draw on the lessons learned over the past 100 years to clearly point in an entirely new and innovative direction.
Moniteurs/ Sophie Adamski
This book is the product of Moniteurs’ many years of intensive reflection, analysis and creative work in the wonderfully complex world of airport wayfinding.
Moniteurs/ Sophie Adamski
The authors and Moniteurs partners Heike Nehl and Sibylle Schlaich set out on a quest to decipher the unique identities in the wayfinding systems of over 100 international airports.
Moniteurs/ Sophie Adamski
Moniteurs/ Sophie Adamski
Frutiger, followed by Helvetica has become the global standard. Each airport could have selected a typeface rooted in the society and culture and reflect the individuality of the airport.
Design and Execution
As the team worked on other airports, it became clearer and clearer where the commonalities lie in the planning, where the specifics lie, and how the requirements change over the years.
The team did not want a manual on how to plan a wayfinding system, but wanted to show why and how things have developed in this profession.
Moniteurs/ Sophie Adamski
Pictograms are indispensable elements in airport wayfinding. Good pictogram design can improve the quality of the airport experience and can also convey a unique style, value or atmosphere.
Moniteurs/ Sophie Adamski
Moniteurs/ Sophie Adamski
Slideshow
Airport Wayfinding
Moniteurs/ Sophie Adamski
Moniteurs/ Sophie Adamski
The authors and Moniteurs partners Heike Nehl and Sibylle Schlaich set out on a quest to decipher the unique identities in the wayfinding systems of over 100 international airports.
Moniteurs/ Sophie Adamski
The Evolving chapter is a journey through 100 years of airport history: How do airport typologies change, and what impact do they have on passenger flows and on-site information needs?
Moniteurs/ Sophie Adamski
This book is the product of Moniteurs’ many years of intensive reflection, analysis and creative work in the wonderfully complex world of airport wayfinding.
Moniteurs/ Sophie Adamski
Architecture Metaphor – Shape: The new Terminal 3 at Harbin Taiping International Airport takes on the shape of an oversized snowflake floating just above earth.
Moniteurs/ Sophie Adamski
Pictograms are indispensable elements in airport wayfinding. Good pictogram design can improve the quality of the airport experience and can also convey a unique style, value or atmosphere.
Moniteurs/ Sophie Adamski
Frutiger, followed by Helvetica has become the global standard. Each airport could have selected a typeface rooted in the society and culture and reflect the individuality of the airport.
Moniteurs/ Sophie Adamski
The authors visited and talked to Paul Andreu in Paris, Mike Wolff and Margaret Calvert in London and Jane Davis Doggett in USA by video call.