A mental health sign system inspired by road signage. Look For Signs reworks warning shapes, colour logic, and strict hierarchy into NOTICE / RESET / CHECK-IN prompts that help people spot anxiety, stress, overwhelm, and burnout; fast, at a glance, supported by a guidebook zine and applied mockups.
Project Overview
Look For Signs turns the visual language of everyday warning and traffic signage into emotional wayfinding for mental health. I started with an ordinary object we rarely notice: caution signs, and asked: what if we could read our internal signals as quickly and clearly as we read a road sign?
Using research from real-world wayfinding systems and safety graphics, I built a small, rule-based sign family that translates common states like anxiety, stress, overwhelm, and burnout into three repeatable sign types: NOTICE(triangles for first signals), RESET (panels for small doable actions), and CHECK-IN (circles that nudge social support). The outcome is a modular visual system plus a guidebook zine designed to sit in everyday environments and offer quick, readable prompts like street signs for your nervous system.
Design Solution
