This project is a site-specific, environmental signage proposal that comprises many different elements, from typography to information design and from product design to public art. It’s an application where design meets content, and tries to inform, and educate the visitors about a publicly unknown site in the island of Crete in Greece. Historical, cultural and everyday life content is researched and unveiled in order to built a strong visual identity for heritage sites (in Greece). The ambition is that preserving the sense of place can stimulate a cultural rebirth.

The site itself is not accidentally chosen. It’s an pathway on Mount Ida that goes back to the early greek past, where myths and history become virtually one thing.

Different stories, myths, poems, people, artifacts and importantly scripts are linked to this environment and all of these helped to built a content-driven, rich design application. Speaking of scripts, the ancient linear scripts of Crete and the progress towards the alphabet were the concepts that influenced the core of this work which is typographic design. Discovering the relevance of type design with architecture, sculpture and even land art has been an exciting learning experience. At this stage the work is in a form of detailed proposal for an environmental installation on a site specific location but over the past 4 years many of the elements are in on-going development.

Tags: environment, identity, self initiated, signage