FOR RELEASE: Aug.
30, 2012
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Kristen
Keene, 615-898-5376
MTSU’s James E. Walker Library with bright new directional
signs adorning the building this fall semester.
With color-coded arrows resembling the signpost from TV’s
“M*A*S*H” located in the elevator key areas, students now will have an easier
task finding the section of the library they need.
“I patterned them after those old highway direction signs
like the ones that said ‘Nashville, 50 miles to the right,” said John
Edmondson, the senior graphic-design major who created the signage.
Edmondson, a Brentwood, Tenn., native by way of Clarksville, has progressed from a middle-school doodler who made stickers for his classmates to an aspiring motion graphics artist. He says he wants to design television ads and intros for commercial TV programs when he graduates in summer 2013.
Edmondson said he was looking for a summer job when he
applied at the library. As it turned out, the dean, Bonnie Allen, interviewed
him because “everyone else was sick that day.”
The signs were processed on PVC sheets, which are stronger
than plastic, yet inexpensive. They were installed on Aug. 24.
A key to the color-coding is located in the first-floor
atrium. Library officials say they hope the signs will enable students,
especially freshmen and transfer students, to use their studying and
researching time more efficiently and lessen unnecessary trips to the
information desk.
For more information, contact Kristen Keene at 615-898-5376
or Kristen.keene@mtsu.edu.
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