Originally shared by Johan SundströmThis track signage att Uppsala Central Station shows a particularly committed, almost artful disregard for all the basics of information design.
Note how perfectly identical the margins are, to not leak clues about whether the labels and arrows are horizontally or vertically grouped.
Note how the arrows both originate from the track 2 label, again conferring no cues about which arrow is the one pointing at track 2 (by process of eliminating the absurd, weighing in the fact there is a widowed track 3 label too).
Note how within each label, the track, number, and Braille notation is vertically oriented in a tidy column. Is this a clue or red herring about how the boxes bind together semantically?
Are the blind reading the dots below any better off? Nope; it's just a copy of the text. If anything, they have it worse, as they can't take in the gestalt of the iconogram. Though I suppose they just are left with a different sense of confusion, missing out on the full
holistic confusion of this art installation.
This track signage att Uppsala Central Station shows a particularly committed, almost artful disregard for all the basics of information design.
Note how perfectly identical the margins are, to not leak clues about whether the labels and arrows are horizontally or vertically grouped.
Note how the arrows both originate from the track 2 label, again conferring no cues about which arrow is the one pointing at track 2 (by process of eliminating the