Huie Design

The Atlanta 100 shares our good news: Avalon recently received the highest honor for New Developments at the ICSC International Council of Shopping Centers’ U.S. Design and Development Awards: http://theatlanta100.com//13/avalon-takes-home-the-g/13152

Pantone’s Color of the Year reflects humans’ innate craving to immerse themselves in the physical beauty and inherent unity of the natural world: https://www.pantone.com/color-of-the-year-2017

Last week, Avalon took home the highest honor for New Developments at the ICSC International Council of Shopping Centers U.S. Design & Development Awards. Congratulations to all those who worked on the project and to the Huie Design team for providing the graphic design work and signage: http://www.icsc.org/uploads/awards/USDD-2016-Winners.pdf

Shopping or dining at Avalon today? To extend the award-winning compelling presence of Avalon to the second phase, we are continuing to seamlessly integrate #signage and #wayfinding systems that embody Avalon’s timeless art of living well philosophy.

After getting terribly lost in New York City’s Penn Station, designer John Schettino decided to create improved Amtrak transit maps to better help users visualize the space. His goal is to develop an interactive app that would include dynamic path plotting, 3D modeling and live data integration. In the meantime, he hopes that his static maps and diagrams will continue to bring #wayfinding clarity to confused and frustrated travelers: http://eyeondesign.aiga.org/how-getting-hopelessly-lost-in/

Why are diverse teams smarter? According to Harvard Business Review, non homogeneous teams make fewer errors, make the best decisions and they’re more innovative: https://hbr.org/2016/11/why-diverse-teams-are-smarter

Great #signage and environmental graphics don’t have to be restricted to multi-million dollar developments. Doodles Breakfast & Lunch in #Lexington, Kentucky, seen on a recent team trip, proves outdoor graphics are feasible and beneficial even for small businesses!

The BUCHSTABENMUSEUM is an A-Z of urban history, a database of #typographic trends that have defined and refined the face of Berlin http://eyeondesign.aiga.org/berlins-buchstabenmuseum-is-th/ #designmatters

Say goodbye to a boring lobby and doorman. Two buildings in San Francisco have turned their skyscraper lobbies into art galleries with massive video wall constructions: http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/STMG/sott_201610/#/72

Atlanta-based Gozio Inc. is developing a #wayfinding app to help hospital visitors arrive to their appointments on time and unstressed: http://www.bizjournals.com//health-system-turns-to-tech-to

Due to the rise of digital #signage, some city planners are predicting the demise of street signs:

Smart pedestrian lighting design is lighting the way to fewer pedestrian deaths in #Australia:

Nature, robots and design come together at London’s V&A Museum of Childhood. Utilizing a robotic production process, a team of architects and engineers have designed a structure that mimics lightweight construction principles found in nature most notably, the filament structures of the forewing shells of flying beetles: