This is our first newsletter for 2010.
We've got some interesting projects coming up and to kick the year off we have released three new interpretation panels called
Panorama ,
Tui and
Loci .
Panorama is similar to our
Vista display but is a bigger display, 1200 by 600mm.
We've just completed a similar display on the West Coast, at Franz Josef. The only difference with this one is that it has steel legs, while the Panorama has timber legs. See here at this
blog posting The
Panorama has an aluminium panel with a vinyl print and a tough coat finish on the top. We've found this process to be effective and sustainable in a variety of situations, both front country and back country. The Panorama comes in a kitset; the timber legs are just screwed through the aluminium framing on the back of the panel. So it's very straightforward to put together and install into the ground. The angle is set at 45 degrees. The colours are fully customised; there are a variety of colours for the aluminium panel and for an additional cost we can paint or stain the timber legs.
The
Panorama and the
Vista display are ideal for situations where the display panel needs to be more inconspicuous; being low profile you can see over the top of the panel. It's very good for viewpoint situations and in bush settings where you want to have a subject in front of the display and reference it on the panel. Here is a spec sheet for
Panorama.
We also have a range of other display panels which you can find on our
website. They include the
Tui and
Loci displays, which are also new. The Tui display uses the same 5mm aluminium panel with the vinyl print and tough coat finish. It's mostly used for interpretation situations. The
design
benefits of Tui and Loci is that the panel is slotted into the timber structure and screw through the back of the timber, so it's a very clean design and very easy to renew the panel if it's damaged in any way.
Loci display
One of the sides is slotted more deeply than the other so you can just unscrew it, push it sideways and then take the panel out. The Loci display can be used for interpretation but is generally used for orientation panels such as at the start of a walkway, where there might be a map and information about the location. The Tui, Loci and Panorama displays complement our existing Vista and Coastaleering displays.
We are continually working on adding news and
resources to our website and recently we've added an interactive slide show to the
home page which has some of our new and past projects. Further down the page there is the
Twitter feed , which pushes up all the
latest blog postings and links about wayfinding from all around the world. We try to keep up-to-date on the
latest
trends in interpretation and wayfinding.
The links below highlight some recent news and useful information.
Peter's pool blog post
http://post.ly/Oafk 8 Ways to Create City Utopias for Peds and Cyclists
http://bit.ly/buhVeP Our new display "Panorama"
http://post.ly/NRKp We have just installed a new slideshow showcasing our recent projects
http://post.ly/N4BT 
