#all the signage was clear and concise and in multiple languages

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it’s like they designed JFK airport’s international arrivals hall to make me ask myself, Why did I come back

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Creating Inclusive Event Spaces: Ensuring Accessible Event Venues for All

Planning a social event, whether it's a wedding celebration or a corporate gathering, involves many details. From selecting the perfect décor to choosing the right menu, every aspect contributes to the overall experience. However, one crucial factor often overlooked is the accessibility of the event venue.

Ensuring that venues are accessible to all individuals, regardless of their abilities, is not just a matter of inclusivity but also a legal and ethical responsibility.

Muhurta Lawns spread across seven acres of land is a perfect, lavish destination for your any event to celebrate. Weddings, corporate events, social gatherings all are organized here smoothly.

When organizing an event, be it a wedding lawn extravaganza or a corporate conference, it's essential to prioritize accessibility from the outset. This means selecting venues that can accommodate individuals with diverse needs.

Event Venue Selection: Choosing the right event venue is the cornerstone of inclusive event planning. Look for venues that offer wheelchair accessibility, ramps, elevators, and accessible parking spaces. Additionally, consider the layout of the venue to ensure that there are no obstacles hindering mobility.

Wedding Lawns: For couples planning their special day, wedding lawns provide a picturesque backdrop for exchanging vows. However, it's vital to ensure that these outdoor spaces are accessible to all guests. Look for lawn venues that offer level pathways, wheelchair-friendly seating areas, and accessible restroom facilities. This ensures that everyone can fully participate in the joyous occasion without facing any barriers.

Corporate Event Venues: Corporate events play a significant role in fostering professional connections and driving business growth. When selecting corporate event venues, prioritize accessibility to ensure that all attendees, including those with disabilities, can fully engage in the proceedings. Choose venues that offer accessible meeting rooms, audiovisual equipment, and designated parking spaces for individuals with disabilities.

Inclusive Amenities: In addition to physical accessibility, consider other amenities that can enhance the inclusivity of the event venue. This includes accessible restrooms equipped with grab bars and spacious stalls, as well as signage and materials presented in multiple formats, such as braille or large print, to accommodate individuals with visual impairments.

Staff Training: Ensuring that venue staff are trained to assist individuals with disabilities is crucial for creating a welcoming and inclusive environment. Provide training on disability awareness, etiquette, and communication techniques to empower staff to effectively assist all guests. Encourage staff to proactively offer assistance and be attentive to the needs of individuals with disabilities throughout the event.

Community Engagement: Engage with the local disability community to gather feedback and insights on the accessibility of venues. By consulting with individuals with disabilities, event planners can gain valuable perspectives on potential barriers and identify areas for improvement. This collaborative approach fosters inclusivity and ensures that event venues meet the needs of all members of the community.

Creating Inclusive Experiences: Tips for Event Planners As event planners, it's our responsibility to create inclusive experiences that cater to the diverse needs of attendees. Here are some tips for ensuring accessibility in event planning:

1. Venue Selection: Choose venues that prioritize accessibility features such as wheelchair ramps, elevators, and accessible restroom facilities.

2. Communication: Provide clear and concise information about accessibility features at the venue, including directions for parking and entrance points.

3. Accommodations: Be proactive in accommodating special requests from attendees, whether it's providing sign language interpreters or offering seating arrangements for individuals with mobility challenges.

4. Flexibility: Remain flexible and responsive to the needs of attendees throughout the event. Be prepared to make adjustments on the fly to ensure everyone feels comfortable and included.

In conclusion, creating inclusive event spaces is essential for ensuring that all individuals can fully participate in and enjoy social gatherings, whether it's a wedding celebration or a corporate event. By prioritizing accessibility in venue selection, amenities, staff training, community engagement, and continuous improvement efforts, event planners can create welcoming environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. Let's strive to make every event venue a place where everyone feels welcome and valued.

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Have you ever entered a building and felt lost, unsure of which direction to go or who to contact for assistance? It's a common experience in larger structures like train stations, hospitals, shopping malls, convention centres, and other complex environments that can leave you feeling baffled and forgetful of why you even entered in the first place. That's where AGX can make a difference with their custom wayfinding signages. We at AGX specialize in designing wayfinding signages that seamlessly blend in with the environment they're placed in, creating a user-friendly experience for your visitors. With our expertise in creating visually appealing and functional signages, we help individuals easily navigate through complex spaces and find their destinations with confidence. In the retail sector, effective wayfinding signages are particularly important. Shopping malls and retail stores can be overwhelming with multiple floors, sections, and stores. We understand the unique challenges of the retail environment and design custom signages that not only complement the aesthetic of the space but also provide clear and concise directions to help visitors find their desired stores or facilities effortlessly. AGX's wayfinding signages are designed with careful consideration of factors such as visibility, consistency, clear information, accessibility, and user feedback, addressing the common problems associated with wayfinding. Our signages are strategically placed to provide optimal visibility and are designed with easy-to-read fonts, high contrast, and universal symbols for clear comprehension. We ensure consistency in design elements, symbols, and terminology to eliminate confusion and provide a seamless experience. Accessibility features such as braille, tactile elements, and language translations are incorporated to ensure inclusivity for all users, including those with disabilities or limited language proficiency. As a leading expert in signage design, AGX has extensive industry knowledge in creating effective wayfinding solutions. Discover how AGX is at the forefront of innovative and user-friendly signage solutions that can transform the way people navigate through built environments. In our latest blog post, we share valuable insights on how technology, aesthetics, accessibility, user feedback, and branding are shaping the future of wayfinding signages. According to the experts at AGX, here are the top 5 latest trends in wayfinding signage design. Don't miss out on this informative blog post! Read more: https://lnkd.in/d2v4_gzw

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‘The Frozen Palace’ Evaluation

For this project I was commissioned to create a brand identity for The Frozen palace, a small family run business focused on serving the handcrafted gelato flavours that they have been working on for the past two decades. In addition to this, they wanted to have a logo and overall representation that was inviting and welcoming to customers. My immediate ideas were to focus primarily on the palace aspect of the name and then add the frozen aspect of the name through texture. After having a vague idea and starting point I created a mood board and this was to understand the atmosphere I wanted to create. For this exercise, I collected architectural images such as the Sagrada Familia and the Milan Cathedral and I picked these two structures because they had interesting shape language that I immediately thought it would be interesting as the palace imagery in the logo. I then started thinking about colour and how in the brief it stated that the client wanted minimal colours so I opted for a more monochromatic colour palette. This was because it allowed me to add more variety of colour through tone and it not be as imposing as if I used multiple different colours. Additionally, I looked at the texture of ice and its reflective qualities gathering images of both murky ice that could’ve given my logo a more playful atmosphere and reflective ice that could’ve given it a cleaner more sleeker look. And finally, I Looked at potential packaging for the product and I was interested in the giant ice cream tubs to make of card and how they could give off a more environmentally friendly vibe for the company. Finally, the last of my initial research was in reference to the Aaker model and understanding how different brands present themselves creating a personality that they can use to attract a specific target audience. After my initial analysis of the brief, I decided early on that I wanted to go for a more sincere personality as the brand is family runny locally sourced giving off a more down to earthen, honest personality, but as they want to open up in an area like Soho where there is a younger target audience I also chose excitement as a personality trait opting for a cleaner and more modern approach to my logo as well.

To create a starting point for my logo design I did a twenty-second sketch workshop where I created small thumbnail sketches back to back and this helped me have a variety of starting point and allowed me to understand what would work simplified and what wouldn’t. For in a lot of my sketches I used a very sharp shape language for the roofs of my design and this ended up giving it a negative, menacing and almost evil lair atmosphere, which was the complete opposite of what I wanted to this workshop helped me soften some of my shape language up so that it alines more with the brief being more inviting and welcoming. Another workshop I did was the custom type workshop and the main objective of this workshop was to get me to understand how type can be used to create feeling making it just as important as the visual mark of the logo. Using brush and ink focusing on keeping a consistent line making sure to keep the brushwork fluid so that I get an even application achieving the cleanest result possible. During this workshop, I primarily focused on emulating sans serif fonts so that when it came time to transition to digital I could separate the letters. After the transition to digital, I played around with scale and size but it didn’t fit the aesthetic of my initial designs because the type was too choppy and rough.

Collecting research for this project was an integral part of my understanding f the largest audience and who I’m appealing to when I’m creating this logo. To collect primary research I took a trip to Soho Landon and was focusing in on how businesses present themselves and what type of target audience they’re trying to appeal to. Looking at the competitors of the frozen palace was so important for this project because it allowed me to understand what target audience is present in the area already that I could tap into my logo design. For example Snowflake, they opted for a more minimal approach to their logo design focusing on the sans serif font with wide kerning and thin line weight gave the design a cleaner look and this was reflected in every aspect of their brand identity, on napkins, cups, leaflets and signage. In contrast to Snowflake, there was also Ben and Jerry’s a way more playful brand that was present in the Soho area using a serif font that had a thicker line weight, but staying away from the more formal aspects of a serif font they used a rectangular shape language for the feet of the font and this helped give the logo a more playful and western atmosphere making me believe that they were targeting a younger or potentially family target audience. The two brands I looked at for secondary research were The North Face because it was a really good example of a real-life structure like the Yosemite mountain being translated into a simple tow dimensional, easy to read logo. Finally, I looked Disney’s logo because I wanted to emulate the way it creates space in its logo for example how the type is layered over the mark pushing it back into the distance. I also like how the highest tower of the logo os reaching pst the arch that represents the shooting star making it seems as if the castle is so big that it's reaching into the sky giving the audience a sense of scale and the simple small rotated triangles and flags above each tower helps to give information to the viewer showing how small the flags are in relation to the tower.

After my first presentation was told to pick a font that was better suited to my final logo design and experiment with different colourways to see if this would have an effect on how people viewed the logo. I went for Avenir font because its a sans serif font removing all irrelevant marks from the type making it easier to read even for a younger target audience and making the logo look overall cleaner appealing to the young adult target audience.

Other-worldly/abstract approach in regards to the architecture because I didn’t want it to just be a simple translation of a real-life structure and I linked this into the brief by saying that I wanted to visually represent their handcrafter gelato flavours that have been developed for the past two decades and are supposed to take you out of this world.

Get better at presenting my ideas and clear and concise way, making sure to make talk about the simple links of my work to the client so that they understand how I arrived at my final idea. Get better at exploring more initial options so I don’t limit myself in terms of options altering on and gather a wide range of both primary and secondary research so that I have more information to draw from and analyse. Additionally, if I had managed my time better I could've produced some mock-ups and refined my colorways thinking more about what unique flavors The Frozen Palace would present. Lastly, try to experiment more in the initial stages of the project so that I have a wider range of starting points and deliver a more relevant design to the brief.