Directional signs are of great help to
tourists and travelers as they prevent them from getting lost and save their
time. It also helps in preventing accidents and guides people towards the right
paths. Such signs are generally of two types, private and public owned.
Privately owned directional signs generally
specify the direction of a place or organization to help people in finding it easily
while publically owned signs are owned by public authorities to demarcate
roads, destinations or any other specific spots. A good directional symbol can
educate a new dweller of a place with its roads and can help them in reaching
their destinations faster.
Over the years, the need for good quality
signs has greatly increased to gather the attention of people as many of the
ordinarily made signs cannot manage to get the attention of commuters, helping
them in finding the right way or preventing them from danger. The need for eye-catching
directional symbols has been felt the most in Europe where there are several
accidents every year due to people overlooking those signs. Dublin, the capital
of Ireland, has come up with a solution to these problems by creating appealing
and innovative Directional signage in recent times. The variety of directional signs Dublin makes are
exported all over Ireland and Europe due to their eye-catching and
unconventional nature.
Often an amalgamation of private and public
signs can also be seen where private corporations collaborate with public
authorities to put their ads with directional signage. This is a mutually
beneficial situation where advertisers get to put their ads/ direction of their
enterprises with these signs and public authorities get more funding for their
signs, making them more prominent.
Directional
signs are an integral part of traffic signs as well
and signs like ‘U-turn’, ‘men at work’ or ‘hospital ahead’ also
fall into this category. To make these signs more appealing, they are often
illuminated, created with contrasting colors or are graphically enhanced to
catch the public eyes easily. Some are also imparted reflective prism mirrors
to reflect light or phosphorous to glow at night.
Today, one can find many varieties of
customized directional signage in Dublin
due to the huge demand for these products all over the globe. Signage makers
are aware that they need to make signs which are easily noticeable to commuters
and are to be made a little distractive, yet not so distractive as to divert
their complete attention from roads.
Hence a lot of new materials are being used
to make these displays more durable, appealing and easily understandable. Often
attaching pictures with these signs help in educating people who cannot read,
while sometimes, the text is kept minimal as people in a speeding car hardly
have the time to read long texts. There are a host of new materials being used
as well that cause less wear and tear over time and can withstand harsh
weathers as well, for it’s a stormy night or flooded roads which take the most
harsh test of these signs, where knowing the right path often becomes the only
way of surviving.