Relationship, Scale and Design Considerations
This interpretive sign design illustrates the pre-colonial and industrial history of the dam and a remarkable return of salmon to the Coquitlam River. Red is used as photo caption background colour, is an appropriate highlight colour selected from the photo of the spawning salmon and stands out in contrast on series bullets against the cool gray-blue background. The diagram on the right depicts a series of events described in the red bulleted text call-outs. The perspective view of the diagram offers a distant past and near present highlight, with transparent blue arrows indicating the past departure and present return of salmon. Continue reading “Colony Farm Interpretive Sign”