The World Showcase pavilions surround a lagoon. This concept helps distinguish individual attractions, yet keeps each one connected to the rest. When guests use the wayfinding system to arrive at certain rides, shows or exhibits, they encounter marquees, which help add excitement, color and authenticity to each attraction. To achieve an environment where so many signs cohere, Epcot relies on four primary departments. Show designers hold both aesthetic and executive responsibilities for the look and feel of the attractions.
Architects plan pavilions and structures.
Graphic designers work to provide images and visual texture for everything from wayfinding signs to billboards to the marquee entrances of the attractions themselves. There is also a department that encompasses both show and theme lighting. To execute the idea of a seamless environment, signs are constantly added, subtracted, changed and calibrated. Epcot relies on Walt Disney World Central Shops. This on-location, unionized shop partners with the Disney parks on maintenance, including fabrication and installation of graphics such as showcards, backdrops and goldleaf designs.