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A Legacy Film: Jane Davis Doggett: Graphic Artist WAYFINDER IN THE JET AGE A Personal Portrait of an American Original in a 30-minute documentary Legacy Films Link to fi lm: https://vimeopro.com/jeffjonesfi lms/pwp/video/215478391 About the Film: Jane Davis Doggett: Graphic Artist WAYFINDER IN THE JET AGE It is not likely that you would enter an airport today and not fi nd Jane Davis Doggett’s graphic design concepts of wayfi nding. The use of a common alphabet for signage, continuous title bands, overhead spanning directionals, three-dimensional sign canopies, and codifi cation of separate terminals or zones by letter—A, B, C—, color and symbol are hallmarks of her innovations. As fate would have it, when she graduated from Yale in 1956, the “piston” turned into a “jet” which opened up the way for new, bold design concepts for the jetports. It also opened up for Jane Doggett a pioneer role in a new fi eld that was emerging in the 1950’s: environmental graphics design. With new airports as her laboratory for experimenting in design theory, her wayfi nding system evolved, which proved to be not only effective in airports but also in mass transit facilities, universities, hospitals, sports arenas, museums and other cultural facilities, wherever the persuasive movement of the mass public was vital. Witty and wise, she shares her remarkable career and amazing life in the 30-minute documentary Jane Davis Doggett: Graphic Artist, WAYFINDER IN THE JET AGE. While a graduate student at Yale Art & Architecture, she was awed by the size and scope of the new environments as envisioned in architectural theory and instruction under the helm of Louis Kahn.
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