The guidance sign for the new corona virus vaccination site in Sumida-ku, Tokyo, designed by Associate Professor Zhang Masu of the Chiba University Design Research Institute, Specially Appointed Researcher Hisanimi, Fukaki Sueyoshi of the Graduate School of Integrated Science and Technology, and Shuhei Sonoda of the Faculty of Engineering. , Selected as one of the 100 Best Design Awards.
According to Chiba University, this guidance sign incorporates the knowledge that vaccination venues are not crowded and intimate, and the color is what stage children and elderly people are at and where to go next just by looking at the guidance sign. I am trying to make it easy to understand by looking at the numbers.
In the Good Design Award screening, it was evaluated as "quickly creating a design that reduces the physical and mental burden on not only vaccinated people but also medical staff and venue operators", and among the 1,608 Good Design Awards. We were in the top 100, which selected the best 100.
The Chiba University Design Research Institute is based in the Chiba University Sumida Satellite Campus, which was established in Sumida Ward in 2021, and created a guidance sign as a joint project with Sumida Ward.
Associate Professor Zhang and four others visited the Sumida Ward Office to talk with Mayor Toru Yamamoto, reporting that he was selected as one of the 4 Best Design Awards.In this, Mayor Yamamoto said, "I am grateful for responding to the ward's request to make the inoculation process easier to understand," while Mr. Sonoda said, "This is the first time that the production has spread to the world at once. I had a valuable experience. "
