When navigating public space during Covid-19, abiding by social distancing standards and other safety guidelines can get confusing. The public messaging around safe behavior can change depending on one’s location—it seems every individual business and entity has tried to develop their own system to communicate these standards. The lack of consistency in messaging and overwhelming amounts of information can make it difficult for people to digest and follow, reducing its impact.

That’s why Applied, a team of international wayfinding experts, has published the Covid-19 Design Toolkit, a comprehensive set of guidelines, icons, and templates for how to design systems in high-traffic places to encourage safer public behavior in response to the pandemic. After spending the past four months advising clients on how to introduce social distancing guidance into complex environments like transit stations and university campuses, Applied developed the Covid-19 Design Toolkit with a wide variety of industries in mind. It’s aimed at creating a universal design language that can be tailored to different locations, from entire cities to individual retail stores and offices.

“Through our work in dealing with the Covid-19 crisis, we’ve spotted a great degree of public confusion with knowing what to do when walking around a city or into a store, where to queue at or at what point to wear a face mask,” says Applied founder and creative director Tim Fendley. “This guide lets organizations collaborate and ultimately make environments safer and easier to use without the confusion.” The toolkit, which sets out a clear roadmap for implementation, is available royalty-free to any public or private landowner, place manager, or policy leader, and is free for anyone to download.

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With a defining spirit of playfulness and discovery, Danny Giannella, Jeffrey Renz, and Tammer Hijazi, the trio behind Bower Studios, aim to inject interiors with unexpected perspectives and a dose of serenity. They accomplish this by focusing on mirrors—objects intimately close to the human consciousness—rendered in satisfyingly simple shapes and materials.

When: Until Aug. 29

Where: David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles

What: From the late 1950s to the 1970s, Doyle Lane created a series of small-scale ceramic vessels from his studio in El Sereno, Los Angeles. Named “weed pots” because they were designed to hold individual sprigs and dried flowers, the vessels became some of the late ceramicist’s most celebrated works. As the curator Ricky Swallow describes, the pots are “jewels of California modernism [that] are most credibly understood and appreciated when viewed in groupings, which is how Doyle conceived and marketed them.” More than five dozen of these weed pots—some plump and spherical, others UFO-like—make appearances here, creating a playful rhythm and offering a rare glimpse of Lane’s long-unsung talents.

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Surface Says: Few brands pull off adventurous statement pieces like Ligne Roset. It’s one of Europe’s most respected furniture companies for good reason.

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