Sign­Sphere is a monthly roundup of inter­est­ing arti­cles and resources I’ve came across, in this series you will find links to inspi­ra­tional projects, brand aware­ness, tech­ni­cal improve­ments, design resources and more. Use the con­tact form to send in your lat­est work or news source to get listed in the SignSphere.

The world is noisy enough

Lis­ten.. What do You Hear? If the answer is “noth­ing much”, con­sider your­self lucky. Envi­ron­men­tal noise causes hear­ing loss, dif­fi­culty con­cen­trat­ing and prob­lems sleep­ing. Var­i­ous bill­boards have been placed in Lon­don, Berlin, Brus­sels, Milano and Madrid to mea­sure the deci­bel level. Become aware of the envi­ron­men­tal noise around you.

• Visit the web­site Noise Aware­ness for more information

Light-emitting wall­pa­per

With Jonas Samson’s high-tech light-emitting wall­pa­per it’s pos­si­ble to use a two-dimentional flat sur­face as light source instead of a 3D object. As long as the wall­pa­per is turned ‘off’, it is indis­tin­guish­able as a source of light. Instead, it is just what it appears to be: wall­pa­per.

• Visit the web­site for more infor­ma­tion about the Light Emit­ting Wallpaper

Iconic Logo Designers

David Airey launched a new web­site to doc­u­ment infor­ma­tion on the world’s most ironic iconic logo design­ers. The site fea­tures inspi­ra­tional cre­atives such as Herb Lubalin, Steff Geiss­buh­ler and Alan Fletcher. A great web­site resource for logo design­ers.

• Visit the web­site Iconic Logo Design­ers for more information.

Case study from The New York Times: What’s your Sign?

A com­pre­hen­sive slide show about type and road sig­nage in the United States, using the type ClearView. Var­i­ous exam­ples of road signs and type implementations.

• Visit the road sign slide-show for more information.

Font Con­fer­ence: Comic Sans Saves the World!

A Font Con­fer­ence where peo­ple are fonts, Arial Nar­row, Times New Roman. Wingdings is annoy­ing and talks in gib­ber­ish, Arial Nar­row is a racist, and Futura is a sexy lady from the future. Found via Typophile, orig­i­nal from CollegeHumor.

• Watch this great font con­fer­ence movie and have a laugh.

End­point — brand imple­men­ta­tion & management

Recently a reader send me note from the con­tact form, the port­fo­lio from End­point is worth tak­ing a look. With a team of engi­neers, design­ers and project man­agers they have a inter­na­tional expe­ri­ence in typog­ra­phy, fur­ni­ture, inte­ri­ors, archi­tec­ture, sig­nage, con­struc­tion, acces­si­bil­ity and health & safety standards.

End­point takes visual iden­tity from 2D designs and trans­form them into phys­i­cal, real life brands.

• Visit the web­site End­point for detailed information.

GE Lumi­na­tion — Solid State Lighting-Signage

Sav­ing energy and costs with Tetra® LED Light­ing Sys­tems from GE Lumi­na­tion. Cre­ated for sig­nage appli­ca­tions — indoors or out. Judged against the per­for­mance of stan­dard neon or flu­o­res­cent lamps, GE Lumi­na­tion Tetra LED solu­tions pro­vide sig­nif­i­cant energy cost reduc­tions, eas­ier job­site instal­la­tion, less fre­quent main­te­nance and more con­sis­tent brightness.

• Visit GE Lumi­na­tion for detailed infor­ma­tion about Tetra LED Light­ing Systems.

Inter­na­tional Design Excel­lence Award 2008

A jury of 20 design experts from around the globe gave 205 awards to the most inno­v­a­tive designs; with more inter­na­tional win­ners than ever before and two Best in Show awards, the results of the 2008 com­pe­ti­tion show breadth and depth of design excellence.

• Visit the IDEA web­site for all the inspi­ra­tion designs for 2008

Vital Signs, inno­va­tion signage

Vital Signs is an inter­ac­tive instal­la­tion designed to dis­sem­i­nate break­ing news about sci­ence to vis­i­tors in the museum. A con­tin­u­ous and per­me­able moe­bius strip of LEDs inter­spersed with pro­jec­tions would allow vis­i­tors to view stream­ing infor­ma­tion from all sides of the atrium.

• See the web­site Nar­chi­tects for more infor­ma­tion and exam­ples about this product

GrafiSign Beurs Dutch

Print & Sign, de vak­beurs voor visuele com­mu­ni­catie, zeef­druk en dig­i­taal printen die zich tot voorheen enkel tot de sign­branche richtte, ver­ruimt het aan­bod en zal vanaf dit jaar de volledige grafis­che sec­tor bereiken. Te jaar­beurs in Utrecht op 10, 11 en 12 sep­tem­ber 2008.

• Bezoek de web­site voor meer infor­matie over deze print & sign beurs.

Designm.ag

A brand new web­site man­aged by Van­de­lay named designm.ag (the .ag domain) clever cho­sen. A web­site ded­i­cated to bring you the lat­est infor­ma­tion about design, com­mu­nity news, gal­leries and more. A inter­est­ing post about type and head­lines shows 50 dif­fer­ent exam­ples for cre­at­ing attrac­tive head­lines, you can read the post here.

DesignM.ag is a new site that is aimed at pro­vid­ing a wide vari­ety of resources for web design­ers and devel­op­ers. The pur­pose of the site is to keep many use­ful ele­ments, such as a blog, com­mu­nity news, design gallery, and job board all at one place.

• Visit Designm.ag for your design inspiration

Send in your material

To get fea­tured in Sign­Sphere just send me a note with your lat­est work or the project you want to show. With the con­tact form you are able to con­tact me. Thank you and happy reading.