What is the environmental in graphic design?
Concepts of Environmental Design
Environmental design is a wide field that involves various diverse borders hence it affects the understanding nature of almost all the students undertaking design as a course. Since design involves of diverse fields it is evident that it is easier for the students not to understand the concerns of environmental design. Environmental design is a professional design that involves of numerous disciplines. Some of the various disciplines that make up the environmental design encompass of the graphic design, industrial design, landscape architecture and architecture (Heller & Fernandes, 2010).
The main essence of environmental design is to improve the buildings and outlook of the infrastructure. The professional concept behind environmental design is communicating identity and brand nature of the building, Way finding, and shaping a sense of place and information design. In the current world, environmental design is essential in almost all the construction especially conducted by the architecture. The current technological changes in the world environmental design have contributed to the improvement in the architectural building techniques (Arntson, 2012).
The concept of environmental design refers to the building environmental with fashionable environment with the available graphics and not environmental engineering. In most cases, people associate environmental design with the natural environment hence getting the concept of environmental design in a wrong manner (Berger, 2009). Environmental design major consists of the unique designs introduced to build the environment with numerous buildings. The concepts of architecture, landscaping viewing and graphic design are the major fields of environmental design. Several students are introduced into architecture are currently advised into undertaking environmental design to boost their carrier.
Architectural Wayfinding
Architectural Wayfinding in environmental design refers to the way in which people organize and communicate to the environment and the space surrounding the people. In using architectural Wayfinding in environmental design, it enables the people to determine the location and position in the setting of the building. Wayfinding in architecture enables the people to identify the movement in the building especially from one distinct place to another unknown position. Before developing the location to move from one place to another, people have to plan the way of motion and the shortest way possible for the movement. This is only possible in architectural Wayfinding in the sense that people tend to find their way from one place to rooms in the building (Berger, 2009).
In environmental design, the essence of architectural Wayfinding is to inform the users of the building about the location of the various rooms. Since the current buildings have diverse rooms, which might confuse the person especially in a new location, then it is necessary to initiate the use of architectural Wayfinding. The guests in the building are capable of finding the appropriate pathway hence avoiding commotion and instances of losing track of the appropriate rooms (Arntson, 2012). Architectural Wayfinding in environmental design compasses of various elements that the architecture ought to consider before the construction of the building.
One of the vital elements of architectural Wayfinding is markers in the building. Through establishment of the appropriate markers in diverse locations in the builds enables the people to have a clear view of the movement. The people visiting the building will be capable of finding the required pathways by reading the directional information offered in the markers. The second vital element of architectural Wayfinding encompasses circulation/path, which occurs naturally after the construction of the building (Gibson, 2009). Immediately after the construction of the building, the architecture ought to identify the path/circulation through visibility. Examples of architectural Wayfinding involve edges, nodes and zones, which both assist in the highly legible urban environments to the people (Heller & Fernandes, 2010).
Industrial design
Industrial design one of the key branches of environmental design refers to the use of a combination of both applied science and art learned in higher educational institutions to improve the usability, ergonomics and functionality of a product. Most of the manufacturing organizations always have to improve the nature of the product over a period. This is for the key reason of maintaining an appropriate device, which will still boost the marketing of the product to the customers (Berger, 2009). After various years, the organization needs to improve the appearance of the commodity to make it more appealing to the customers. Industrial design is also vital in the sense that it improves the marketability of the product to the customer. Various problems of form and sale associated to the product are always improved by industrial design.
The introduction of industrial design in the industries assists the manufactures of a device to rejuvenate the perception of the customers. After surviving for various years in the marketplaces, the manufactures are supposed to boost the commodity and make it attractive to the extent to which the customers can still purchase the product. The rate of competitive products in the marketplaces also makes the aspect of industrial design usable to upgrade the nature of the product (Arntson, 2012). Industrial design is related to the environmental design since improving the outlook of the device making it more attractive implies that the surrounding of the device is also improved. An example of the industrial design in use is the upgrading of the iPod hence making it still attractive to the customers all over the world.
Interpretation
Interpretation in environmental design refers to the manner in which the design of construction of a certain building and the surrounding environment communicates to the viewer. The design used in the construction of the building communities to the people various diverse messages. This is especially in regards to the environment surrounding of the balding, which gives a unique overview of the building diverse from the other adjacent buildings (Gibson, 2009). Almost all the constructed buildings in the current world have a unique shape, design and surrounding. The three aspects, shape, surrounding environment and design communicates to the people a diverse message, which makes the building unique and different from the other existing buildings (Berger, 2009). The aspect of environmental design in the current construction of buildings also offers a different theme to each of the building.
The theme of the buildings is normally established by the edges, zones and nodes varieties used in the construction. Each of the people hence offering a difference perception of the building to the people always interprets the themes of the builds in a diverse manner. The unique themes in the architecture used in the construction of the building gives the entire environmental design a diverse picture of the buildings in the entire world. For instance, the unique theme displayed in the construction of the building gives an exceptionally different meaning of the building (Arntson, 2012). The theme of the white house gives the construction a diverse interpretation from that of the castle and theme used in the construction of the common homestead designs. The environmental design surrounding the white house gives a diverse interpretation from that of the normal buildings.
Placemaking
Placemaking in environmental design refers to the conceptual approach in that it encompasses of the art of designing an idiosyncratic image to represent a certain site. In the place making of a certain construction, there is usually minimal attention on the communication of the building. However, the main essence of placemaking in environmental design is for the chief purpose of branding the certain construction (Heller & Fernandes, 2010). The aim of branding the construction is to ensure that the building is well recognized in the marketplaces. The main essence of branding the building is to encourage other members of the society especially the investors into purchasing the building. Placemaking of the architectural building always occurs with the aid of other professional such as marketers and businessperson (Gibson, 2009).
Immediately after the construction of the building, the environmental design in this case which is placemaking takes place. In most of the urban centers, almost all the buildings constructed have unique and attractive designs. This means that without appropriate branding of the building, the people around might not be in a position to identify the building. Although the building might be unique and have diverse future from the rest of the buildings, lack of branding might not assist in the revealing of the building to the interested investors. The main importance of placemaking, which is under environmental, designs it to advertise the building to the willing and able investors into purchasing the building. An illustration of placemaking refers to the Mc Donald, which changed the appearance of the store to increase the sales (Arntson, 2012).
Landscape architecture
Landscape architecture refers to the improvement of the design associated with the outlook environments, outdoor areas hence making the areas appealing to the people. The essence of landscape architecture is to achieve a unique outcome to the environment, aesthetic outcome and social-behavioral outcomes of the diverse places all over the world. In performing aspects concerning landscape architecture, the first aspect is investigating the environment to ensure that the geological and economical condition of the landscape is obtained (Arntson, 2012). After which the next procedure is to design an intervention that will give an appropriate outcome of the landscape desired to be obtained by the owner of the land.
The importance of landscape architecture is to ensure that the desired landscape is obtained through the transformation of the existing land. Architecture in conjunction with the other engineers, take time to design a landscape that is appealing and more beneficial than the current ragged landscape. The use of landscape architecture is to obtain a unique landscape that is capable of changing the earth’s surface into a better habitant for human survival. An example of use of landscape architecture encompass of urban design of central park situated in the New York City (Berger, 2009).
Reference
Heller, S., & Fernandes, T. (2010). Becoming a graphic designer: A guide to careers in design. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons.
Berger, C. (2009). Wayfinding: Designing and implementing graphic navigational systems. Mies: RotoVision.
Arntson, A. E. (2012). Graphic desi6n [sic] basics. Boston, MA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.
Gibson, D. (2009). The wayfinding handbook: Information design for public places. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.
