Lance is the principal of Lance Wyman Ltd., the New York environmental graphic design office established in 1979. He is a specialist in branding/wayfinding systems for public environments and is credited with helping to define the field of environmental graphics.His graphic system for the Mexico’68 Olympic games is cited as “...one of the most successful in the evolution of visual identification.* ” His early landmarks also include branding/wayfinding systems for the Mexico City Metro, the Washington Mall, the National Zoo, and the Minnesota Zoo which was selected by Time magazine as one of the ten best designs of 1981.

Other successful public graphic systems include the maps for the Washington, D.C. Metro, and branding/wayfinding signage for pedestrian skywalks in the cities of Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He has recently completed branding/wayfinding signage systems for the Cities of Detroit, Hoboken and Albuquerque, the Amtrak High Speed Rail facility at Pennsylvania Station, New York, and the LG Arts Center in Seoul, South Korea. Current work includes the wayfinding systems for the St. George Station, Long Island Ferry Terminal and the City of Santa Fe.

Lance has received awards from the American Institute of Graphic Arts, Society for Environmental Graphic Design, Art Directors Club of New York, and the Milan Triennial.
His work has been published in the New York Times, and magazines including Life, Time, The Architectural Forum, Progressive Architecture, Graphis, Communication Art, Print, ID, Design, Wallpaper, Eye and Creative Review.

His work has been exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art and the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York, the Center of Industrial Design at the Louvre in Paris, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and the Poster Museum of Warsaw. He is a Fellow of the Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD), and was founding President of the SEGD Education Foundation. He co-conducted the first "Interdisciplinary Environmental Design Seminar" at the University of Cincinnati in 1990 and is teaching at Parsons School of Design in New York since 1973. Mr. Wyman was born in Newark, NJ and graduated from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y. with a degree in Industrial Design. He received the 1968 Pratt Institute Alumni Contemporary Achievement Medal.

Presentation:
Wayfinding - helping a city become user friendly

Workshop:
Wayfinding - helping a city become user friendly