Blog Archives - The Interpretive Design Company

NAI International Conference – Brazil 2019

The NAI Conference in Brazil welcomed interpreters from around the world. Sharing stories, ideas we were inspired by global trends.

Virtual Tours

Virtual tours offer live transformative experiences including, Virtual Field Trips, talks from Guest Speakers, other classroom connections, & live projects.

GALLERY – Interpretive Signage – small projects

Gallery of interpretive signage for small projects

Uncle Trevor at the opening of Gumgali Track

Dee Rogers Artwork

Dee Rogers Artwork - figure paintings, portraits, copies and collage. A favourite past-time but never enough time! A collection from over the years.

NAI 2014 National Conference in Denver

Map requirements

A list of map requirements to create beautiful maps generated from ArcMap and Google Earth exports. Mud Maps, Satellite Photography Maps & Stylised maps.

Simpson

What is a style guide and what is a visual language?

A style guide is a set of standards for the writing and design of documents providing uniformity across multiple documents - print, web & visual language.

Interpretation Australia Conference Melbourne Zoo 2014

Developing interpretive plans

Developing interpretive plans starts with a concise mission statement, identifies the audience, uses a thematic approach and assesses visitor experience.

Signage Viewing Sequence

Interpretive signage viewing sequence: headings, images, illustrative materials inc maps and legends, captions, sub-heading, labels & finally body text

Semi-Permanent Design Conference

This design conference is one of our favourites, providing a new head-space & inspiration for designing non-personal interpretive media.

Interpretation conference in Sth Korea

This year the NAI returned to South Korea for its annual international interpretation conference and we were hosted by the people of Suncheon

Universal Interpretive Themes

Universal interpretive themes apply to anyone, anywhere, at anytime. A universal theme is one that is timeless, and that all people can relate to.

Signage Content Tips & Information

Signage content tips with examples showing word count, display size, image density, white space and more. The basics of what to aim for in your projects.