Dongdaemun Design Plaza
The Dongdaemun Design Plaza is a major cultural centre in Seoul’s downtown fashion district. As part of the Dongdaemun Design Plaza & Park, it is one of the city’s most important developments in recent history. The Plaza was built over ... Read more »
The Met
Applied worked with The Met to improve wayfinding across three sites, in order to transform visitor experience. The Met is one of the world’s largest major cultural destinations, with over six million people visiting the 2,000,000 square feet of gallery ... Read more »
Leer Madrid
Applied began work in October 2017 on Leer Madrid (Legible Madrid), a pedestrian wayfinding master plan for the city. Applied has teamed with local partners Paisaje Transversal (urban strategy), Avanti Avanti Design (accessibility specialists), Urban Networks and Paralelo 39 (urban ... Read more »
Department of Business, Innovation and Skills
Applied was commissioned by the Better Ways of Working team at the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) to devise a wayfinding strategy for its head office located at 1 Victoria Street, London. Read more »
University of British Columbia
Applied North America has completed a new major wayfinding project at the Vancouver campus of University of British Columbia. The project comes as part of a massive $46m realm programme at this tier one university. Read more »
UK Border Agency
Faced with sustained media criticism of immigration controls, the UK government set out to increase awareness and visibility of the border entry process, with uniformed immigration officers and improved information at the ports of entry. Read more »
HMC
In 2011 Applied were asked to audit the wayfinding and signage at Doha’s Hamad Medical Centre, a Qatari Hospital network made up of multiple buildings in numerous sites across the city. Patients were frequently turning up at the wrong hospital, ... Read more »
Bluewater
Opened in 1999, and hailed as Europe’s most innovative and largest retail and leisure destination, Bluewater has been credited with changing the face of retailing in the UK. The Bluewater concept has been copied by major shopping centres built since, ... Read more »
Westfield Stratford
Applied developed a wayfinding system for the external retail areas of Westfield Stratford City. The external areas were the most underused part of the centre because shoppers had not strongly connected the internal and external offer. Further there was a ... Read more »
Sharp
Applied were initially appointed to produce a comprehensive wayfinding strategy for Sharp’s £16.5million development in East Manchester, a 200,000 sq ft complex offering extensive digital facilities to professionals and start-ups in the field. We were subsequently commissioned to design the ... Read more »