Expo67 Wayfinding – Montréal, Québec

Date

1966

[![](http://canadiandesignresource.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/1-expo67-signage1.jpg)](http://canadiandesignresource.ca/graphics/burton-kramer-expo-67/attachment/1-expo67-signage-2/) [![](http://canadiandesignresource.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/2-expo67-signage1.jpg)](http://canadiandesignresource.ca/graphics/burton-kramer-expo-67/attachment/2-expo67-signage-2/) [![](http://canadiandesignresource.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/3-expo67-signage1.jpg)](http://canadiandesignresource.ca/graphics/burton-kramer-expo-67/attachment/3-expo67-signage-2/) [![](http://canadiandesignresource.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/4-expo67-signage1.jpg)](http://canadiandesignresource.ca/graphics/burton-kramer-expo-67/attachment/4-expo67-signage-2/) [![](http://canadiandesignresource.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/5-expo67-signage1.jpg)](http://canadiandesignresource.ca/graphics/burton-kramer-expo-67/attachment/5-expo67-signage-2/) The task of designing the complete way-finding sign­­age system for Expo67 in Montreal was entrusted by the Canadian Corporation for the 1967 World Exhibition to Paul Arthur & Associates Ltd. It was the first time that an entire graphic programme of official and commercial signage on such an immense scale – for the equivalent of a thousand-acre city – had ever been planned in advance as a modular system and integrated into a master planning concept. Pictograms of animals in black silhouette were used to identify the various areas of the two mammoth parking lots, each of which accommodated about 12,000 cars. – Burton Kramer