INTERPRETIVE SIGNAGE DESIGN

LVB provides visual storytelling design services for natural heritage and cultural heritage interpretive projects to help you create meaningful connections to your resource.

INTERPRETIVE NICHE

LVB specializes in interpretive displays about environmental topics such as conservation storytelling, ecosystem restoration, and the natural and cultural heritage of a site. Projects have included wayside and scenic overlook panels, trailhead kiosks, and signage for interpretive trails and boardwalks.

CLIENTS

LVB provides visual storytelling and interpretive design services for land trusts, nature preserves, conservation organizations, watershed groups and friends groups, local, state, and federal government agencies, environmental service firms, private landowners, and academic institutions.

INTERPRETIVE SERVICES

Interpretive planning, thematic development, storyboarding, interpretive writing, site consultation, research, art direction, image curation, photo manipulation, graphic design, custom illustration, illustrated maps, copy-editing and proofing, fabrication consultation and vendor coordination.

Trailhead and Welcome Kiosk Signage

Create beautiful and informative displays to welcome and orient visitors to your preserve, park, or trailhead. Highlight your site’s wildlife, recreational opportunities, points of interest or programs. Share tips and guidance for how to safely and respectfully enjoy the resource. Provide an enticing glimpse of what visitors may explore and discover within.

Trailhead map and signage for the Limestone Link Natural Area in San Marcos, Texas.

Natural Heritage Interpretive Signage

Create meaningful and relatable connection points using the principles of interpretation. Provide a window into the hidden web of ecology, instill a sense of wonder, and inspire curiosity. Invite the visitor to take a closer look or consider a different perspective. Describe your organization’s mission to protect, conserve, or restore land, waters, or wildlife. Foster and encourage future environmental stewards.

Snapshot of Interpretive Trail Signage Design with Savanna ecological theme

Cultural Heritage Interpretive Signage

Celebrate or honor the past and provide a peek back in time. Describe history through tangible text and graphics, and universal themes. LVB works with local historians and archival material to help research your project. We develop themes and curate a visual narrative to create a sense of connection between your site’s history and your present guests.

Interpretive Planning

Every successful interpretive project begins with a solid plan. LVB provides interpretive planning for nature trails and visitor centers, including thematic development and signage display concepts. LVB helps clients develop strong themes and learning objectives for each exhibit. We use this document as a touchstone throughout the design process to guide the development of the visual story.

Wayside and Overlook Signage

Use viewsheds and points of interest along your road, river, or recreational corridor to provide moments to pause, reflect, and learn about a place or resource. Pedestal and rail-mounted signage serve as your silent spokesperson and tour guide. Craft a memorable and enjoyable interpretive experience worth stopping for.

Watershed Education Interpretive Signage

Foster public watershed understanding and appreciation. Connect the dots between downstream issues and upstream practices. Delineate the boundaries of your watershed and highlight its defining features. Invite your audience to learn more about your programs and projects, and what they can do to get involved or stay informed.

Celebration and Dedication Signage

Celebrate the project champions and conservation heroes behind open lands preservation, parkland creation, habitat restoration, and river corridor revitalization. Share an inspiring story of a vision turned reality. Highlight major milestones, partnerships, and individuals instrumental to the project’s success. Inspire a new generation of leaders.

Graphic design of a commemorative kiosk signage design to celebrate 50 years of service by a Dane County Park champion.

Inspire, delight, and inform your visitors through compelling visual storytelling.

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TESTIMONIALS

Barb McKittrick, Environmental Education Manager

Forest Preserve District of Kane County, Geneva, IL

After a long search for a design agency that could combine in-depth knowledge of ecologic principles with expertise in interpretive sign development, our forest preserve district was so lucky to find LVBrown Studio for our signage project. Lauren is a rare mix of natural resource manager, landscape architect and creative designer – perfect for creating compelling, educational, and beautiful trail signage! She also developed a visually stunning, spatially accurate welcome sign/trail map for the 450-acre preserve that, for the first time in the site’s history, tied together all of its natural and cultural features.

Peter Foy, President

Friends of Lake Kegonsa Society

Lake Kegonsa’s health is directly related to the water quality of its tributaries, including Door Creek. FOLKS work closely with Dane County Land and Water Resources Department to help residents understand and appreciate the value the natural resources in their watershed. The Door Creek Watershed kiosk signage that Lauren designed for Dane County’s Fish Camp County Park helps us achieve those goals. It’s a beautiful and informative kiosk!

Bill Lunney, Former Board Chair

Dane County Parks Commission, Madison, WI

Lauren, you have done a spectacular design for the kiosk. You really helped us sift through all the accomplishments and arranged them to tell a story, highlighting the important things, and giving them themes. You are an artist in how you can envision a work like this. You did wonderful research, took excellent photos, and the result is magnificent. We really love the way it has turned out.

Brittany Kovach, Communications & Marketing Coordinator

Forest Preserve District of Kane County, Geneva, IL

Lauren demonstrated an unparalleled attention to detail in the creation of 13 interpretive signs and one large welcome sign for our popular forest preserve. Her creative insights added a unique dimension to the project, and her map illustrations and design skills proved to be top-notch. She had excellent communication throughout the process and helped organize and streamline the project. The end result speaks for itself – a collection of stunning signs that captivate the public’s attention.

Scott Stokes, Co-Founder and President

Wolf Run Association, Mazomanie, WI

Lauren is an extremely creative, talented, and knowledgeable watershed design planner that was instrumental in the success of our recent Wolf Run Trail project. Her conceptual plans, informational signage work, team building, and design presentation skills were outstanding and gave our project a very professional touch. She delivered the work on time and stayed within her cost estimates. Plus, she’s an absolute joy to work with.