This issue of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Signage and Wayfinding begins the second half of our first decade of publication as the only academic journal dedicated exclusively to signage and wayfinding research. Since Volume 1, Number 1 of IJSW was posted in December 2016 much has happened in the world, with significant advances in signage and wayfinding digital technology, and signage research methodologies, specifically (e.g. wearable eye-tracking hardware). And of course, the unforeseen and devastating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have led to multiple low- and high-tech innovations in visual communications that have raised numerous and interesting research questions. This issue of IJSW celebrates our sixth year by “Looking Back, Looking Forward and Recognizing the Importance of Signage Research".