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Bachelor theses of Sarah Treier & Alexander Gensheimer – Oriēns - a configurable signet system – a orientation system that is easy to configure and produce. This makes it affordable and offers charities and NPO's the opportunity to ensure orientation and security in their buildings.
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orientation – a well conceived signetsystem makes wayfinding more easy – during emergency situations it can even be life saving.
target group – to find the area that needs orientation the most, the analyses of the non-profit-sector was quite important.
analyses – a great part of the projekt was the analyses of visual rules that can be used as universal guidelines for a signetsystem.
design – after elaborating the circumstances of the charitable institutions, the rules that were found were laid down on the final design of the signets.
pictograms – to allow the signet-system to be irrespective of high license fees, own pictograms have been developed.
holdings – to make the system easy to assemble special holdings were designed. In addition, they give the system a visual unit
website – to make a modular system possible, it is configurable on a website.
user manual – for the non-profit organizations, a user manual was compiled. It includes the most important informations about the readability of signet systems and explanations of how and were to put on the signets.