ABOUT

In December 2009, Royal Caribbean International (RCI) launched Oasis of the Seas on her maiden voyage. She is the world's largest cruise ship, in conjunction with her sister ship Allure of the Seas released in 2010. She is unique not only in her size, but her function. It was the end of a two year-journey for me of design exploration, trouble shooting, coordination, world travel, conference calls, thousands of emails, executive presentations, tight deadlines and last minute design changes. The final outcome was well worth the trip.

My role was as supporting manager, where I worked on all areas of the project, during all phases and communicated daily with client representatives. I was also a member of the design team that developed and executed wayfinding and venue sign systems and graphics. I manage the assembly of the sign package and production of the working drawings.

Our teams' scope was to collaborate with project architects and executive management to design signage and graphics ship wide that included all wayfinding signs, public spaces, restaurants, entertainment venues and lounges. We also prepared production manuals and schedules for all these areas that included the crew area and ADA signs.

Due to size of the ship, and entirely new system of wayfinding had to be developed that RCI hadn't used before that included touch screen navigation and the use of a color quadrant system that makes use of signage and art.

The entire program totaled over 40,000 individual signs and was a design coordination with 10 different international architectural firms.