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The Design Companion

The Design Companion

The Design Companion is an essential primer to those involved the planning and process of delivering better places. The Primer is overseen by Urban Design London and written by several experts including Bally Meeda, Director of Urban Graphics. Bally Meeda wrote the section on Understanding Plans and Drawings.

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Luton Mapping

Luton Investment Framework Map

The Luton Investment Framework out a compelling and credible twenty-year plan for major transformation to take place in Luton in order to achieve strong and sustainable growth in the town. The printed and interactive map and map tells the story of the town will be transformed by the planned projects, initiatives and schemes.

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Herts mapping

Herts LEP Mapping

The Herts LEP mapping is an illustration of the forthcoming development sites within the LEP’s enterprise zones. An exemplary demonstration of public and private sector investment for economic growth and prosperity.

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K+20 Area Action Plan

K+20 Area Action Plan

This Area Action Plan for Kingston town centre is part of the Council’s Local Development Framework for the borough. It sets out planning policy for Kingston town and it will form part of the statutory development plan for the borough. This report is streamlined in its length and more visually engaging in its graphical communication.

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Mega Transport Projects

This Executive Summary presents a selection of key findings from a five-year research study of decision-making in the planning, appraisal and delivery of Mega Transport Projects. The graphic design, mapping and infographics transformed this research project into a high-quality communication tool that is now being used all over the world.

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Shillington Design & Access Statement

The Design and Access Statement for Shillington is a comprehensive assessment of the site context in order to evaluate the options, opportunities and constraints for development. The report and supporting illustrations clearly explain the rationale and suitability for the development.

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Lambeth Local Plan

The Lambeth Local Plan sets out planning policies for Lambeth to guide growth in housing and jobs, infrastructure delivery, place-shaping and the quality of the built environment over the next 15 years.

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Urban Design London Graphics Workshop

Graphics workshops specifically designed for practitioners within the built environment. The focus is on planning, producing and understanding graphical outputs to facilitate the development process and minimising misunderstandings. Hands-on intuitive workshops to quickly simulate real life office environments of producing and managing graphic outputs.

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Graphic Communication in SDPs

As part of a wider planning modernisation agenda, Scottish Government guidance conveyed an expectation for slim-line plans, focussed on place-making and with an emphasis on their graphic content. A guidance document highlighting the tools and techniques available for producing slim-line graphic focussed Plans was produced to facilitate the plan-making process within the Scottish context.

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Oxford Brookes University Graphics Workshops

Graphics workshops specifically designed for students on planning, architecture and urban design courses. The focus is on planning and producing graphical outputs to add clarity to the overall course communication. Developing ideas and concepts through hand drawn illustration right the way through to the presentation to final designs though the use of computer software programmes.

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Graphics for Urban Design

Director of Urban Graphics Bally Meeda has written this definitive guide for graphics production in urban planning to facilitate clear understanding between all involved throughout the development process. A step-by-step good practice guide on the graphical tools, production and management techniques.

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Woods Hardwick Rebrand

This multi-disciplinary consultancy across architecture, engineering, planning and surveying refreshed their brand and visual identity after thirty years of a very successful outward facing image. The design principles and ethos fundamentally remained the same and the visual identity was refreshed for the new era of online, interactive and social media marketing.

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New Lubbesthorpe

New Lubbesthorpe is a pioneering community – a place to live, to work, to go to school, to play and to enjoy – with vibrant urban amenities in a rich rural setting. At the masterplanning stage a brand and visual identity was developed to bring together the many facets of this exciting new community.

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Konza Technology City

The first step of this ambition 2,000 hectare development project was to develop a memorable brand and visual identity to this colossal project. The brand ethos and visual identity was created to have longevity and to provide continuity to all the business partners involved. The brand and visual identity for this project was and still is an iconic centrepiece for Kenya’s 2030 development vision.

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Kingsland Wharves

Located within the Kingsland and Regents Canal Conservation Areas, the scheme is a housing-led regeneration project which required a brand and visual identity to enable the sales and marketing of this prestigious scheme.

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