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Design Category
Information design, 2001
Design firm
Poulin + Morris (New York, New York)
Collection
(2002) AIGA 365: 23
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Yale University is undergoing an ambitious campus and building renovation program that seeks to improve individual physical facilities, create a stronger connection throughout the institution’s various schools, departments and programs, and improve the University’s physical and aesthetic relationship to the City of New Haven.
We were asked to establish a set of design guidelines that would respect the character and history of existing individual structures and still create this new cohesiveness.
The resulting 3-volume casebook set is comprised of a 244-page, full-color, bound volume containing design guidelines, implementation guidelines and in-depth analysis of the entire planning process.
“Someone’s taken the trouble to put a large amount of data into an attractive format.”
“I’ve been in planning situations where I’ve wished I had a document like this.”