The Research On Form Design Of Wayfinding System For Xi'an Metro Line 2

For a long time ,people usually perceive guiding signs as board with words, and they habitually call it "direction board" or "signboard". However, these names only expressed the existing form of the guiding sign. Guiding signs are in fact concerned with more than an indicator board. It should include something which originally existed in local environment and indicate unique locality and information. Guiding signs not only exist alone, but also exist as one of the component of the surrounding environment. Therefore, in many occasions, the theme and structure of the guiding signs have great influences on its peripheral environment. The design of the cities' guiding sign is one of the important types of identification in urban environment, because it is not only an effective communicative media conveying the traffic information to tourists, but also represent the spirit of the city and become a part of the city's culture.This paper aims to report a real project of guiding signs system of No. 2 metro line. Since the current situation of the design of the domestic metro guiding signs system-lay often stress on traditional standardization and fictionalization, the current paper tries to propose a core proposition that the shape of the product endowed with the regional characteristics will fulfill and enrich design value, which will then meet the aesthetic need of people. Proceeding from semiotics in the aspect of designing and the law as well as methods of product semantics, the paper suggests the design of metro guiding signs system in Xi'an, and arrive at the conclusion that the product design of guiding signs system is a united whole of external functional form and internal spirit, which reflects the symbolic semantic transmission. Therefore, the emphasis on the symbolic semantic transmission of the product injects new vitality in the design of metro guiding signs system, which not only recurs the design philosophy of "people oriented", follows the designing trend for future development, but also promotes the harmony, interactivity, continuity and development in product and people as well as emotion and culture.