Today is the day that design­work­plan has come back with new and fresh post­ings again! For the last cou­ple of months the post­ings were not fre­quently at design­work­plan and all of my small bits and inspi­ra­tional pieces moved to my Twit­ter feed, please fol­low me on your daily doses of design tweets.

The over­all design of design­work­plan has changed a bit and the header is set to the new con­tem­po­rary type­face Axel by Erik Spiek­er­mann. Over the next few weeks the theme will develop more and new func­tion­al­i­ties will be added. Please let me know your find­ings and or sug­ges­tions on the recent design devel­op­ment here on design­work­plan, thank you for your huge support!

design­work­plan flickr photostream

Over the last cou­ple of years I have col­lected many pho­tos of design, type, sig­nage and wayfind­ing objects, now I have decided to share my pho­to­stream with the read­ers of design­work­plan as a ref­er­ence guide to the work that we do. The photo col­lec­tions will show you design from every­day life in the fol­low­ing topics:

• Envi­ron­men­tal graphic design
• Road signs across Europe
• City wayfind­ing in Europe
• Air­port signage
• City build­ing type
• Tube wayfind­ing
• Infor­ma­tion graphics
• Tex­tures
• and much more

Below you will find some exam­ples of the design­work­plan pho­to­stream, I’ve put up col­lec­tions to find the images of your inter­est but when search­ing via sets you will have a com­plete overview of the pho­tos uploaded so far.

• Please visit the design­work­plan pho­to­stream on flickr.

If you are inter­ested please add me as a con­tact to your flickr stream to enjoy the lat­est updates.

Air­port sig­nage: Shiphol

Air­port sig­nage from Schiphol and Gatwick are online, both with many pho­tos from dif­fer­ent signs and loca­tions. More air­ports from around the world will fol­low soon.

Lon­don Rail­way signs

Var­i­ous pho­tos of the rail­way sign sys­tem in Lon­don is online aswell at the signs and dia­grams of the Lon­don Tube is to be found at the design­work­plan photostream.

City type

As type is every­where, espe­cially in Ams­ter­dam where there is much type on build­ings, bridges and in the land­scape to be found. As I travel more inspi­ra­tional pho­tos will be added.

Tex­tures

I love play­ing with my cam­era and add cre­ate tex­tures that can be used in design.

Toi­let signs

Toi­lets signs are every­where and used in many dif­fer­ent ways with many dif­fer­ent icons. This pho­to­stream will host the toi­let signs that I have encountered.

Road signs in Europe

A col­lec­tion of pho­tos of road signs from The Nether­lands, Bel­gium, Ger­many and France.

Type is everywhere!

Ofcourse the pop­u­lar arti­cles here at design­work­plan filled with pho­tos from type is every­where can be found at the flickr stream, adding more as we go along.

design­work­plan flickr photostream

Please feel free to take a look at the pho­tos and use them as a ref­er­ence or inspi­ra­tional resource but remem­ber that all pho­tos are All Rights Reserved mean­ing that you have to link back to designworkplan.com or to the flickr page when using the pho­tos in your pre­sen­ta­tions. If you are unsure how to deal or if you have any ques­tions please con­tact me.

Future plans at designworkplan

As the new design indi­cated, design­work­plan is head­ing into an resource arti­cle web­site for design related top­ics, thank you very much for the huge sup­port and the many requests for using the con­tent of my arti­cles in col­lege, pre­sen­ta­tions and quo­ta­tions, I appre­ci­ate your feedback!

Inspi­ra­tion

Last year was a hard year for me but I’m back bring­ing you inspi­ra­tional design arti­cles, I’ve got sev­eral post­ings wait­ing to get into the blog-o-sphere. If you want to get updated with the lat­est arti­cles, please sub­scribe to the free full RSS feed.

Next up:

• After the huge suc­cess of the free sym­bol signs col­lec­tion, I’ve cre­ated a post how to use this col­lec­tion in your designs, com­pleted with a free hotel sig­nage template.
• The font-series “Type is every­where” will fol­low up with: Gill Sans is every­where, Arial in St. Tropez, Frutiger is every­where and more.
• I’ve just fin­ished read­ing the great book from Sig­naletik “Ori­en­ta­tion & Iden­tity” which will be reviewed in the next upcom­ing posts.
• A review of the Lon­don Museum of Trans­port that I’ve recently visited.
• The monthly design indus­try news col­lec­tion “Sign-Sphere” will return with the hottest and fresh inspi­ra­tional resources to be found on the internet.
• Also expect more arti­cles on pho­tog­ra­phy as I’m enjoy­ing this more and more.

Finally you:

Look­ing for­ward dis­cussing with you! Please let me know your thoughts.