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Every place has something to say. ⁠ Introducing TYPEONE Magazine issue #11: the wayfinding issue 🔥⬆️⁠ ⁠ As Patrick Eley, Creative Director of DNCO and Guest Editor for 11, says. Some signs whisper. Some shout. Some welcome us in. Others tell us where to go, what to do, and what not to touch. ⁠ At the heart of it, through vernacular signage, pictograms, airport systems, urban navigation, sonic cues and digital maps, Eley and the DNCO wayfinding team explore the many ways we find our way through the world, and how the signs that guide us can shape how a place feels, reads and becomes familiar.⁠ ⁠ Across each section, contributors explore wayfinding as more than a practical problem. From Pooja Saxena’s documentation of India’s disappearing handcrafted signage and Rosie Flanagan’s exploration of Ireland’s vernacular shopfronts, to Nippon Design Centre’s pictograms for Japan and Minoru Mukaiya’s iconic train departure jingles, the issue looks at the local accents, cultural nuances and hidd...

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