Posted here are the three signs redesigned for my LIS class The Usable Library, and then posted on my blog. Using the specs outlined in The Nondesigner's Design Book, by Robin Williams, I re-envisioned three signs I had made during my directed field work at the Rome Center Library. The signs I originally made were for utilitarian purpose: Showing library users where the Folio Books were, explaining how library users could use the Library of Congress system to browse by subject for book, and a sign welcoming users to the Rome Center Library. The first time I made them, sitting in that library in Rome, I had a very hard time. Due to a lack of importance being placed on the project and other deadlines pressing in, I squelched my creative instincts, mistook safe monotony for professionalism, and created some very dull signs of poor design. The old signs now live only only Google Docs. Click here for the old signs: Folio, Browsing, Welcome. Fortunately, just a few months later, the Usable Library class and Robin Williams rescued me from the delusion of necessity for monotony. I found out I could use my artistic design skills for good, not evil- that in the design world, professional is not boring, it's artistic, usable and fun. Oh happy day! I dropped the signs into Publisher, kept the new design principles in mind, and got imaginative. Here are the new and improved versions: New Rome Center Library Welcome Sign
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