Six years ago I asked my daughter, Maggie Appleton, to help me create some Dewey Decimal System signs for the libraries on our new school campus, the permanent home of United World College of SE Asia (UWCSEA) - East campus, in Tampines, Singapore. At the time she was an IB Art student at the original UWCSEA campus -- now known as UWCSEA Dover.
She didn't come up with them completely on her own. I'd been searching the web for different Dewey designs and had found this retro design one I liked on Flickr by Susanna Ryan.
But it was fairly monochrome and I envisaged associating different colors with different sections, much like the famous colored layout of rooms at Powells Books in Portland, Oregon (see colored section sign to the right).
So Maggie got permission from Susanna to modify her icons and to change the colors.
Over the years people have asked Maggie for permission to use her designs -- and, so finally, in a creative commons way (in line with how Susanna allowed to build upon her original design) -- click here to access a DROPBOX folder of all her files.
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My good friend and colleague Barb Philip Reid also has a talented graphic designer (step) daughter -- Natasha Potzsch. And she asked her for a similar favor (to be a signage servant!). Natasha's Dewey designs are also freely available to all teacher-librarians -- click here to access a GOOGLE folder of her files.
We've both been meaning to share these more widely. So now -- go have fun. Our daughters are pleased to have librarians use them! (And obviously let us know if any links don't work....)