Interpretive signage for fire landscape garden
This client spotlight is on Quail Botanical Gardens, who opened their Landscape for Fire Safety Garden on Thursday, September 3 with the support of the Encinitas Fire Department. We got to see an amazing demonstration of a fire water drop by fire-fighting helicopter (video below).
I've been involved with Quail since Experienceology began in 2004, doing a series of interpretive garden signs with my talented colleague, Tanya Bredehoft of Artefact Design. For this garden she created a little logo and unique color palette, and a series of illustrations depicting fire-wise gardening.
For this phase of the project, the Garden was putting in a scale model of a home and landscaping around it. So we took a photo of the home (from the same perspective as the sign would be viewed) and she created an illustration from the photo. This allowed me to greatly reduce the text (two pages originally!) into one clean graphic that gave the key points of landscape design, while referring people to the fire department's new website for a deeper level of information.
We were pleased to be part of such an important project, which we hope will impact the local community in a positive way the next time we have a wildfire here.
I've been involved with Quail since Experienceology began in 2004, doing a series of interpretive garden signs with my talented colleague, Tanya Bredehoft of Artefact Design. For this garden she created a little logo and unique color palette, and a series of illustrations depicting fire-wise gardening.
For this phase of the project, the Garden was putting in a scale model of a home and landscaping around it. So we took a photo of the home (from the same perspective as the sign would be viewed) and she created an illustration from the photo. This allowed me to greatly reduce the text (two pages originally!) into one clean graphic that gave the key points of landscape design, while referring people to the fire department's new website for a deeper level of information.
We were pleased to be part of such an important project, which we hope will impact the local community in a positive way the next time we have a wildfire here.
posted by Stephanie Weaver at 1:45 PM
2 Comments:
Hi Stephanie-
Who actually fabricated the signs & how much did they cost (roughly)? THanks!
Hi Sitta,
Thanks for your question. There were 9 signs in total, ranging in size from 12" X 16" to 18" X 24". The fabrication cost was $2520, which included the steel powder-coated posts. These signs are fiberglass embedded (including a UV protectant) and last about 5 years under our conditions (hot sun and salt air).
The interpretive piece (design and writing) was $3000 for this project, which did not include the original design and logo, as this was a second phase.
You'll find the fabricator Pannier Graphics and the designer Artefact Design listed in my vendors' resources list on my website: http://www.experienceology.com/resourcelinks3.htm
The cost was approximately $600 per sign all in. Hope this helps!
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