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.

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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.

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Signage design

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.

Signage design

Avaava’s own Kohosign sign 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.

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.

Download the Smart City Signage Handbook (PDF)

Avaava signs

Avaava signage system:

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

The main product of the Avaava signage range is the embossed main guide, which is industrially manufactured with the most advanced manufacturing technology. All of the information on this sign is also included as embossed images and written in Braille. The tactile area map is useful for everyone, and also for people with vision impairment, when trying to conceptualise a space and find their destination. All Avaava signs can be fitted with Braille.

Request a quote for our signs from myynti@avaava.fi.

Avaava signboards and guiding signs

The clear symbols on the Avaava direction signs and signboards help people find their way around in a building regardless of their age, size, nationality, functional or sensory impairments. Instead of flat letters, embossed letters can be used on signboards, and Braille can be used to complement the visible information. The user-tested main colours of the Avaava signs are blueberry blue, forest green and graphite grey.

Avaava sound guides

Sound guides are an excellent but rarely used type of guidance. They are particularly useful for blind people and people with impaired vision, but also make navigating easy for everyone else.

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.