Wayfinding and signage

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Signage & wayfinding helps visitors understand the physical environment and experience it appropriately. Curious about the possibilities of wayfinding?

Wayfinding and signage

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Wayfinding solutions are indispensable in large offices, wayfinding for government institutions, shops, healthcare institutions, and public venues. Whether it concerns signage for offices where visitors, employees, and suppliers need to find their way quickly, or complex indoor hospital wayfinding or shopping center? The right mix of design, material, and placement determines whether people reach their destination effortlessly. SIZO designs and creates customized signage and wayfinding solutions, from simple route signs to complete signing plans for office buildings and business parks.

What exactly is wayfinding?

Wayfinding is an umbrella term for the technique and discipline of enabling people to find their way in a location unfamiliar to them, and creating landmarks to facilitate orientation.

A good indoor or outdoor wayfinding Wayfinding is for every organization of importance. It is pleasant and efficient if visitors, employees, or suppliers can find their way quickly and easily and arrive at the right place without delay with the help of signposts. It therefore also removes stress, research shows research by Arthur & Passini.
Indoor wayfinding, especially in offices, is often underestimated. Employees become accustomed to the layout, but visitors and new colleagues get stuck at points that are obvious to insiders.

Signage can be found in almost every building and on almost every property. It can be as simple as the entrance sign at the front door or the letter "P" in the parking lot. SIZO's project managers will visit your site or property and can work with designers to come up with a plan for wayfinding on small to medium-sized projects. Wayfinding and thus signage is always customized. For SIZO, nothing is impossible.

Complex wayfinding projects

For really large complex wayfinding projects such as airports, stations, healthcare facilities or shopping centers, it is always advisable to have a professional wayfinding agency develop a complete plan. SIZO can then take care of the implementation and realization of the wayfinding signs and think along with you about material selection and design of the wayfinding.

We are happy to connect you with professional wayfinding parties. Please feel free to contact with us.

Wayfinding solutions for offices and commercial buildings

Signage for offices requires a different approach than public wayfinding. In an office environment, usage often changes: meeting rooms get new names, departments move, and visitors need to be able to orient themselves quickly and independently. Our wayfinding solutions for offices therefore combine three elements:

  • Large signature for permanent landmarks such as entrances, stairwells, elevators, and common areas.
  • Flexible signage For spaces where displays change frequently, such as magnetic nameplates, interchangeable panels, or digital screens.
  • Branding elements in which the wayfinding simultaneously reinforces your brand identity in the reception, lobby, and hallways.


Whether it's a head office with 500 employees, a business center, or a law firm focused on image. We tailor the signage to the target audience, the building, and the intended feeling for the visitor.

With lettering, you can indicate a location, route, hazards or other messages on almost any surface. From the floor, a wall, stairs to windows and actually much more.

As with the information kiosks, you can convey your message in a variety of ways. From indicating the parking sector to the route to entrance B.

If you also want to sell alternating images and information then a dynamic LED screen is a good solution. Our partner; L2L Ledscreens is happy to help you with this.

For signage in offices, we combine room numbers, floor designations, nameplates for meeting rooms, and general routing. Request a free consultation from our project managers.

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The possibilities of wayfinding

The possibilities of signage are vast. SIZO processes almost all types of materials and can print on anything flat or on a roll. For example, we make signage from di-bond, PVC, wood and metal, but we can also create combinations of 3D milled letters on an LED light box or simple but effective signage arrows made of foil on a window panel.

The designers in our studio are happy to work signage ideas into a manufacturable product or develop a completely unique style for your location. Our sister company L2L Ledscreens specializes in digital signage and can get visitors pointed in the right direction with its impressive LED screens. Probably the most flexible form of wayfinding. SIZO has its own assembly crew so that professional installation and eventual maintenance of the wayfinding are always guaranteed.

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What else does wayfinding do?

Wayfinding contributes to a positive visitor experience

In addition to a rational function, the method of wayfinding can contribute significantly to the appearance of a building. The visitor experience at your location starts with finding your building, possibly the parking lot and then the right location within the building. If this all goes smoothly and visitors can easily find their way around then this contributes positively to their experience.
We like to think along with you, or your architect. To arrive at the right solution and/or choice of materials for signage & wayfinding.

Wayfinding as brand promotion and purposeful decoration

Signage can also be part of your branding or brand identity. Consider, for example, the letter "M" that you see on enormously tall pylons along the highway. Whether or not you go down the road to visit the well-known fast food chain, the name does come back into view and it is clear where they are located.

Signage as an experience component

A clever and exuberantly designed signage can liven up a space. Gloomy spaces like parking garages or storage sheds can be given a modern look with large signage that combines function and decoration.

Indoor wayfinding: routing within your building

Indoor wayfinding is all signage that takes place from the moment a visitor enters your building until they reach their destination. Good indoor wayfinding takes into account:

  • Decision pointsAt every point where corridors diverge, elevators or stairs begin, or where a visitor must make a choice, there should be clear signage.
  • HierarchyNot every sign needs to be equally prominent. The entrance to the central desk deserves more visibility than the direction to the copier.
  • Consistency in styleThe same typography, color, and icons throughout the building ensure recognition and calmness.
  • AccessibilitySufficient contrast, readable size, and where necessary, braille or pictograms for non-native speakers.

 

SIZO designs indoor wayfinding for a variety of environments: offices, retail, hotels, healthcare facilities, and educational institutions. We collaborate with your architect or interior designer, or provide a complete proposal including floor plans and placement plans.

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Outdoor and indoor as well as instore

Wayfinding is often thought of as finding businesses or specific locations within businesses. However, wayfinding also plays a very important role within a retail location. A supermarket where you can easily find your groceries gives a nicer visitor experience than the one where you have to constantly search and spend twice as much time to find the right items.
Signage in your Retail location can also direct visitors to those products you would like to highlight. Or perhaps you want to guide customers through your store via a certain routing. Good wayfinding combined with smart POS (point of sale) displays can greatly increase sales.

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