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- Guidance and public information systems : diagnosis and harmonization of tourist signagePublication . Neves, João Vasco; Silva, Fernando Moreira da; Raposo, Daniel; Silva, José Gago da; Ribeiro, Rogério Paulo dos Santos; Correia, Ricardo Andrade LopesThe greater influx of tourists to certain territories raised the need to inform, guide and communicate basic messages, with a universal language, expressed through various analog and digital supports. This proliferation of means has led to a profusion of guidance and public information systems, some of which are regulated (such as the traffic signs system, signaling of routes and paths or the signaling of protected areas) and other unregulated systems (such as the signaling of religious, equestrian, municipal, historical, heritage and cultural routes, etc.). This article is the result of an ongoing research project, which aims to systematize tourist signage in Portugal, in order to satisfy and induce the potential or real demand for guidance, direction and information of tourists, in a clear and precise way, in addition to transmitting a unique and homogeneous image of the tourist product. Its scope will provide a clear reference framework, which facilitates the implementation of a normalized system by the organizations responsible for the standardization and implementation of tourist signage in Portugal.
- Perceptive and ergonomics concerns in corporate visual identityPublication . Silva, Fernando Moreira da; Raposo, DanielThis article is an explanation based on the bibliography of the specialties of communication design, Corporate Visual Identity, ergonomics and visual perception of graphic signs, with the intention of increasing communicational efficiency in designers' work. Based on the assumptions of perceptual efficiency, ergonomics and symbolic, graphic brands are contextualized as strategic elements of Corporate Visual Identity. The globalized knowledge society for the information that surrounds the Internet on a global scale, the cultural changes and technological developments appear to facilitate that the design of symbols creates problems in a semantic, perceptual and ergonomic dimension. In particular, new digital media seem to foster graphic solutions with a strong mesmerizing power, but moving at a pace that the evolution