Metamark vinyl with specialised adhesive was used in a signage project for the Sheffield City Hall. Despite the damage inflicted in the Second World War, some of which still scars the building’s exterior, the hall still stands and today it is managed by Sheffield City Trust.
All concert venues, like Sheffield City Hall, have a challenge in common: moving large volumes of people around and ensuring they finish up in the right place as efficiently as possible. That’s a job that falls to wayfinding signage.
Dyson Signs’ capabilities were needed to install an ambient signage and wayfinding scheme in the Sheffield City Hall in accordance with a prescribed design and deployment plan. The signs would comprise totems or monolithic fabrications, wall-mounted directories and panels among other things. As with most wayfinding schemes, success looked like getting a lot of information communicated efficiently and legibly while maintaining the closely managed aesthetic.
Printed Metamark MD5-A was used by Dyson Signs’ production team extensively across the signing programme. Printed in the colours needed and with detail imposed, it was used to wrap a whole range of fabricated signing structure and information bearing panels that would help the venue keep its visitors moving in the right direction. Sheffield City Hall’s wayfinding directs, informs and it contributes its own aesthetic while counterpointing surrounding architecture.
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