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New signs up University’s welcome factor

Attention campus occupants: you are here, and now there are signs to prove it.

The installation of the new “you are here” map signs—17 in all—are the last phase in the University’s signage project.

The signs provide a bird’s-eye view of the campus and allow viewers to understand the layout of the campus in relation to their current location, says Robin Lovering, manager of project design and development in Facilities Services.

“We began installing the signs over the holiday break,” says Lovering. “Prior to the installation, the campus only had four total ‘you are here’ signs at different points on the campus perimeter.”

Each sign had to have a walking space on each side so they could be viewed by pedestrians no matter where they were on the walkways, says Lovering. The signs also had to be placed on slabs that would be large enough to support the signs but wouldn’t be a hazard to the visually impaired.

The new signs are the final step in the University’s “Way-Finding Program,” which was the result of nearly two years of signage system research and design by Sacramento State design students. The work of the students came from a request by President Alexander Gonzalez to create a more welcoming campus, one of the goals of Destination 2010.

The first phase of the project included parking lot signs and pedestrian and vehicle directional signs. The second phase of the project saw the completion of building and department identification signs. The 17 new signs are part of approximately 100 new signs throughout the campus.

Overall, Lovering says, the signage system has garnered positive responses from the University community and campus visitors. “People find the building identification signs and the directional signs especially useful.”

For more information on the campus signage project, contact Lovering at 278-6994.