NID may use aluminium for signage design for metro rail project

National Institute of Design (NID), a design school in Ahmedabad, has secured Metro rail’s project for the design of signages on the entire stretch of the railway line. The project also includes stations which will connect Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar. The signages are expected to be made of aluminium extrusion.

NID director Pradyumna Vyas said, “It is a very proud moment for us to work for betterment of the city by contributing our designs to projects like metro rail, airport beautification etc.”

The signage design project is being led by professor Tridha Gajjar. “We have been given a deadline of six months in which we have to give them designs of six prototypes for stations and roads. We have started work and are studying the metro route,” Gajjar said.

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“NID should take some cue from Delhi metro rail which has used tough material for signages ensuring they are vandalism and defilement-proof. The signages are made of aluminium extrusion with vinyl,” an expert said.

The total length of the Ahmedabad Metro Rail Project Phase-I is about 39.259 km.