[5D] Environmental Design

[5D-03] Design proposals of sign for international sports event

For 19th FINA World Championships FUKUOKA 2022-1

*Chisato Kaneko¹, Junpei Hoshino¹, Mao Kudo², Shoji Sunaga², Yoshito Ogata², Hisayasu Ihara² (1. KYUSHU UNIVERSITY - Graduate School of Design, 2. KYUSHU UNIVERSITY - Faculty of Design)

Keywords:Sign, Universal design, Inclusion

A Sign has an important role to guide ones to their destination. We proposed three types of signs for International Sports Competitions. First one was a simple direction arrow which had a longer shaft than the JIS arrow. Second one was an inverted U-shaped arrow which means ones should turn back. The head position of that was lower than the tail position. Last one was a pictogram indicating how long it takes for their destination. These signs were obtained better evaluations than the conventional signs by experiments.