Kuja

FUD

A full wayfinding system for the Faculty of Art and Design at UJEP in Ústí nad Labem, a building with dozens of studios, workshops and departments spread across several floors, all needing to read as one system.

The core of it is deliberately austere: one grid, one typeface, numbers and arrows doing the work. Floor directories, door plates and room signage designed to stay out of the way of the art hanging next to them.

A ceiling-hung floor directory sign reading '0', with arrows pointing to Natural Materials, Ceramic Design and Glass departments
A white door plate reading 'Kabinet / Office' with staff names and room number 519 A white door plate reading 'Design keramiky / Ceramic Design' with staff names and room number 135b
A floor directory page for the Department of History and Theory of Arts listing staff names, numbered 131 A floor directory page reading 'PC učebna / Computer Room', numbered 133 A floor directory page for floor 4 listing Fine Art/Photography, Digital Media and Interactive Media studios with room numbers
A wide wayfinding banner numbered 4, with arrows pointing to Digitální média/Interaktivní média and Fine Art – Photography
A floor directory page numbered 1, listing Studios (Interior Design, Fashion and Textile Design, Product Design) and Offices with room numbers and arrows A floor directory page numbered 4, listing Studios, Classrooms and Workshops with room numbers and arrows

The one place it loosens up is the pictograms. Instead of the usual generic set, standard icons are swapped for ones with a bit more personality, small, playful nods to the kind of creativity the building actually houses.

A black door sign reading 'Kámen' illustrated with a smiling stippled rock, mounted beside a door A grid of eighteen custom pictograms with playful smiling faces for WC, Shower, Cleaning, Reception, Erasmus, Computer Room, FUD Club, Auditorium, IT, No Smoking, Workshops, Screen Printing, Kámen, Digital Print, Darkroom and No Weapons