HARTS PROJECT

For this project, we were to develop instructional signage for HARTS (Harrisonburg and Rockingham Thermal Shelter) locations to inform, explain, guide, teach, and generate awareness among patrons, volunteers, and/or donors. The location my group was assigned was the Faith Community. We were given basic instruction, a list of visuals, any related files and the opportunity to communicate with our partnering team in the Instructional Design course. The purpose of this assignment was for us to design visuals for a real-world client, in consultation with instructional designers. We were given seven types of signs to make, which are shown below. 

Faith Community Emergency Exit Only
4 signs that say emergency exit only

Faith Community Check-In Sign
Pick up linen and toiletries here

Faith Community Breaker Box Location
Breaker box located in nursery in case of power outage

Faith Community Restricted Area

 2 signs showing that say an area is restricted

Faith Community Smoking Area

Sign indicating that smoking area is outside

Faith Community Trash Collection
Sign indicating that trash collection is outside

Faith Community Check-In Sign
No weapons, alcohol, drugs

Answer to Kraus Questions

Clarity: Each sign above are clearly and efficiently presented. The emergency exit sign not only has the the word in white with a red background indicating attention, but an image of a man running out of the door that shows alertness. The linens sign includes an image of linens and toiletries, which helps indicate what the person should be looking for. The breaker box sign has a power outage symbol, which represents a hazard. We also put an image of a man opening the breaker box. The restricted area sign has a man that is crossed off to portray no one being allowed in that area. The smoking sign has cigarettes being crossed off to portray no smoking is allowed. The trash sign has a trash bin on the curb to indicate that trash goes outside. The no weapons, alcohol, or drugs sign also has those items crossed off to show that they are not allowed. Each sign has images and words to help people understand a guideline. Each sign also has the Faith Community Church symbol as well as the HARTS symbol on the bottom of each sign to help bring all the signs together. They are also in the same font to help portray a community. We did the best we could with all the signs and I think they came out very well to help get the message of the signs off to the people looking at them. 

Audience: Since the signs have been made to be put in the Faith Community Church, the people that attend this church is my target audience. The signs are very understandable and we use the appropriate lingo and images to help our message come across. We used the color red to show alertness to what was not allowed in the building and we put a black background on the break box sign to help portray that a power outage could occur. None of our signs talk down to our audience, they are just informative signs to get things across to the people at the church. 

Purpose: These signs are made to share information about what is appropriate in the church. There are some signs that are sharing the rules and  others that include where to pick something up such as the linens and toiletries sign. Since the purpose of the signs were given to use before we made the design, we did discuss everything. None of the signs have too many images so that the sign in unreadable. Everything is simple and to the point, yet is creative to be pleasing to the eye.