Signage design
Avaava’s guidance and wayfinding method, developed over many years, takes into account people with various functional and mobility disabilities, including visually impaired and blind people. Signage design is one of the cornerstones of Avaava’s operations. We have over 15 years of experience in this field and over 50 projects.
Our special area of ​​expertise is the design and implementation of signagesystems serving visually impaired and blind people.
Signage design
Avaava’s guidance and wayfinding method, developed over many years, takes into account people with various functional and mobility disabilities, including visually impaired and blind people. Signage design is one of the cornerstones of Avaava’s operations. We have over 15 years of experience in this field and over 50 projects.
Our special area of ​​expertise is the design and implementation of signagesystems serving visually impaired and blind people.
Clear, uninterrupted and understandable signage is a significant part of the physical and communicative accessibility. With signage, built environments and virtual spaces become truly equal. A space with signs can be better understood and everyone can function smoothly in any way they want.
Kohosign® products
Kohosign® signage system includes:
- tactile area map
- word map
- guiding direction signs
- room and door signs
- elevator guides / storey guides
- symbol signboards and signs
- pictograms
- Braille signs
- sound guides
- embossed floor markings
Kohosign® signage system provides a clear, barrier-free and uninterrupted guided route for everyone moving around the building. The different sign types in the product family complement each other, making it easier to navigate the premises.
High-quality design combines functionality, quality and aesthetics. The series has been developed in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team of experts and has been tested by accessibility, architecture, healthcare and design professionals, as well as people with various mobility and functional disabilities.
Download the Kohosign® brochure in Finnish
Request a quote for our signs from myynti@avaava.fi.
Signage design
Kohosign® family includes, in addition to basic signs, tactile signs and word maps. The signage design services offered by Avaava include the design of signage logic, preparation of signage needs specifications, and design of the visual appearance of signs. If necessary, we also take care of sign production, as well as of production monitoring and installation. Signage design is always based on a unified, coherent and accessible signage system that takes into account the diversity of users, complies with the ambient architecture and environment, can be integrated into ICT systems, is easy to maintain and update, and is cost-effective.
Avaava has provided signage design and implementation services for various office buildings, commercial premises, hospitals, doctor’s offices, teaching facilities, libraries, training centres, and churches. Among the most demanding and extensive of our projects are several comprehensive signage designs for different central hospitals.
Avaava’s special area of expertise is signage design for all senses; as a model example, consider the signage system for blind customers at the Central Library Oodi, which is unparalleled even on the international level.
Sound guides
The Avaava word map is a type of sound guide, providing advance information about the site, already on your home computer. The Avaava word map is a route guide to a destination that can be read or listened to on the website, as well as a clear description of the building itself and its various facilities.
Signage references
Avaava has carried out more than 50 signage design projects, from single tactile maps to design and implementation of entire hospital campus areas.
New Kainuu Hospital
Kalasatama Health and Well-being Centre
Pori Central Hospital
Aalto University, Maarintie 8
Seinäjoki Central Hospital
Mikkeli Well-being Centre
Kallio Family Centre
Hvittorp Conference and Course Center
Onerva Centre for Learning & Consulting
Eskoo Support and competence center
Sodexo Pitäjänmäki
Metropolia Myllypuro campus
Oodi – Helsinki Central Library
Intelligent signage
In addition to the traditional fixed and static signage, various digital and dynamic signage methods have been developed in recent years. In its projects, Avaava makes sure that these two signage domains differing by implementation are combined into a single, complete signage system.
As part of the nationwide 6Aika project, Avaava has compiled the Smart City Signage Handbook, which is an overview of a comprehensive signage model in which traditional signage and digital solutions complement each other. The handbook is aimed at municipalities interested in developing signage, companies providing signage solutions, and private and public service providers. The handbook supports the municipalities in signage design and implementation.
