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Test Your Awareness: Do The Test

branchdesignblog — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 04:04:09 +0000

Thanks to Spoke magazine for the heads up on this video. Great demonstration for cycle awareness

http://www.spokemagazine.com/2010/04/aware/

Design your own Radio

branchdesignblog — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:04:42 +0000

Design your own Radio of New Zealand and Weta Workshop http://www.wetanz.com/ will make it (if you win): more info over here http://www.soundslikeus.co.nz/

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RYAN LEECH – cycling inspiration

branchdesignblog — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:58:16 +0000

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New 2010 interpretation panels

branchdesignblog — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:20:58 +0000

This is our first newsletter for 2010.

We’ve got some interesting projects coming up and to kick the year off we have released three new interpretation panels called Panorama , Tui and Loci .

Panorama display

Panorama is similar to our Vista display but is a bigger display, 1200 by 600mm.

We’ve just completed a similar display on the West Coast, at Franz Josef. The only difference with this one is that it has steel legs, while the Panorama has timber legs. See here at this blog posting

The Panorama has an aluminium panel with a vinyl print and a tough coat finish on the top. We’ve found this process to be effective and sustainable in a variety of situations, both front country and back country. The Panorama comes in a kitset; the timber legs are just screwed through the aluminium framing on the back of the panel. So it’s very straightforward to put together and install into the ground. The angle is set at 45 degrees. The colours are fully customised; there are a variety of colours for the aluminium panel and for an additional cost we can paint or stain the timber legs.

The Panorama and the Vista display are ideal for situations where the display panel needs to be more inconspicuous; being low profile you can see over the top of the panel. It’s very good for viewpoint situations and in bush settings where you want to have a subject in front of the display and reference it on the panel. Here is a spec sheet for Panorama.

Tui display

We also have a range of other display panels which you can find on our website. They include the Tui and Loci displays, which are also new. The Tui display uses the same 5mm aluminium panel with the vinyl print and tough coat finish. It’s mostly used for interpretation situations. The design benefits of Tui and Loci is that the panel is slotted into the timber structure and screw through the back of the timber, so it’s a very clean design and very easy to renew the panel if it’s damaged in any way.

Loci display

One of the sides is slotted more deeply than the other so you can just unscrew it, push it sideways and then take the panel out. The Loci display can be used for interpretation but is generally used for orientation panels such as at the start of a walkway, where there might be a map and information about the location. The Tui, Loci and Panorama displays complement our existing Vista and Coastaleering displays.

We are continually working on adding news and resources to our website and recently we’ve added an interactive slide show to the home page which has some of our new and past projects. Further down the page there is the Twitter feed , which pushes up all the latest blog postings and links about wayfinding from all around the world. We try to keep up-to-date on the latest trends in interpretation and wayfinding.

The links below highlight some recent news and useful information.

Peter’s pool blog post http://post.ly/Oafk

8 Ways to Create City Utopias for Peds and Cyclists http://bit.ly/buhVeP

Our new display “Panorama” http://post.ly/NRKp

We have just installed a new slideshow showcasing our recent projects http://post.ly/N4BT

Fundraising art auction for the Haiti earthquake

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Peter’s pool

branchdesignblog — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:31:58 +0000

Photos of a recently completed interpretation project on the West Coast at Peter’s pool, Franz Josef Glacier.

Location:

Google map http://bit.ly/awCM8Z

See and download the full gallery on posterous

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Are new display “Panorama”

branchdesignblog — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:17:11 +0000

Over the last few months we have been developing a new interpretation display “Panorama”. It has a 1200 x 600 aluminium panel and timber support structure. Within the price of the display, included is one full colour digital print, vinyl on 5mm aluminium display panel for outdoor use with “Tough Coat” protection.

For more information about this display, please download our pdf brochure > http://www.branchdesign.co.nz/1358-Panorama_structure_cost_2010.pdf

Click here to download:

1358-Panorama _structure_cost_2010 (643 KB)

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Nelson and Tasman shortlisted for a place on a national cycle trail #wayfinding

branchdesignblog — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:53:36 +0000

This great new for the Nelson and Tasman region to be shortlisted for a place on a national cycle trail. Nelson looks likely to be granted $2.6 million from the Government.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/3320952/Cycleways-plan-hailed

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Cycleways plan hailed – news – nelson-mail | Stuff.co.nz.pdf (75 KB)

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What is EGD?

branchdesignblog — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:03:01 +0000

A very interesting posting by Todd Mayfield http://hubpages.com/profile/toddmayfield from http://www.mayfieldcreative.com giving a great overview of Environmental Graphic Design

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Up Close and “Environmental”.pdf (132 KB)

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We have just installed a new slideshow showcasing our recent projects

branchdesignblog — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:25:31 +0000

We have just installed a slideshow on our index page www.branchdesign.co.nz to showcase our recent projects.

Kiwi aims for Seven Summits record

branchdesignblog — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:58:10 +0000

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Kiwi aims for Seven Summits record – national | Stuff.co.nz.pdf (59 KB)

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