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• Home Garrett Reil MA MISTD FRSA is a communications designer with 20 years experience of creating successful design solutions. His recent research has focused on Ireland's road sign design, dual language signage issues, issues with ageing, and creating improvements in the function of signs for all road users

• About the research project Background on the research project into Ireland's dual-language signs
• Summary findings A summary of the design research findings

• Sign design research journal A blog-style journal with information on the research and findings of the examination of the design of Irish road signs
• Road users find new design clearer than old
• Research findings - with Irish language speakers
• Creating and testing design variants
• National Identity
• Signs are getting bigger
• What's wrong with this sign?
• Differentiation of languages in sign design
• Developments in directional road sign design
• The use of English on Ireland's signs
• Irish as a 'foreign' language
• Old Irish meets modern European
• Some background on the evolution of the UK's signs
• The reduced status of Irish – made visible
• The origins of our road sign design
• Legal context of Ireland's road signs

• About Garrett Reil Garrett Reil MA MISTD FRSA is a communications designer with experience and a passion for information design and branding, here is a brief biog...

• News News updates and progress reports on the road sign design research project
• Clare Champion Article
• Live95 News – Irelands Road signs
• Presentation to the Oireachtas Joint Committee
• IDI Exhibition – Kilkenny
• Exhibition at NCAD
• Reporting for Conradh na Gaeilge
• Archive: Jan 2009

• Contact me Garrett Reil is a communications designer - get in touch about the research project

• Visual blog A tumblog of visual inspriation and general interest

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