Toronto-based environmental graphic design (EGD) firm Entro recently developed a wayfinding system for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s renovated plaza in New York, N.Y., integrating signs into the newly landscaped public space.
Occupying a four-block area, equivalent to three football fields, the plaza has been redeveloped at a cost of $65 million, sponsored by philanthropist David H. Koch. It features two computer-controlled fountains, a seating area with parasols, light-emitting diode (LED) illumination, granite paving and more than 100 trees.
Entro designed signs with simple forms and colours, using materials deemed visually compatible with the surrounding architecture. Indeed, the company’s work has been praised for blending into the space as though it had always been associated with the original museum building.
