Redesign and Improvement of the System of Signaling and Visual Communication for the Rectory of the Federal Institute of Maranhão that Meets the Needs of Visually Impaired People

Abstract

The composition of the atmosphere is able to facilitate or impede the movement of any person. The signaling is a resource whose main purpose is to guide you’re an individual in relation to the geographical area in which it is, but not always these spaces meet the conditions of accessibility and inclusion. For people with visual impairments, circular in malls, shops, toilets, cinemas, theaters, supermarkets, which are private environments, however free access, and especially the public spaces, is still a major challenge. Understanding accessibility-related obstacles facing people with visual impairment, it is considered the need to provide resources, i.e. make spaces so that it becomes possible to provide quality of life and autonomy of way that everyone is indeed included. It is known that Visual communication facing signalization, fulfills the role of direct and inform the user in a specific location, but to work it inclusive manner, it is necessary to remedy the shortcomings present in space from the perspective of Graphic Design, i.e. develop appropriate methods of accessibility and inclusion considering the use of tools such as the creation, the psychology of colors, the typographic organization and other Visual elements often exploited by the designer. Under the optics of graphic design, this project aims to adapt and apply an effective signaling in a public environment of education, the building of the deanery of the Instituto Federal do Maranhão, in order to be able to offer best conditions access to your users, working the inclusion and accessibility as the credits that you can provide an environment not meeting the needs of people who don’t have some kind of disability, but your audience as a whole, without exceptions.