2012-05-01
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Architectural Signing and Graphics by John Follis and Dave Hammer, as posted by Joe Kral to Flickr.
2012-03-26
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Margaret Calvert’s classic UK “children crossing” roadsign, from the Guardian’s gallery for the new exhibition, Celebrating in style: British Design at the V&A, London.
2012-03-01
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Reconstruction of square US standard road sign lettering (1927) by Eric Fischer on Flickr:
Overlaying the 1952 Standard Alphabets for Highway Signs with as many characters from the earlier square-letter standard as I could find in sample signs from pre-1942 editions of the MUTCD, mostly from the 1927 Rural Sign Manual. The real standards for these characters, never published in book form, probably still exist in a dusty file cabinet in some public works department office.
I was not able to find any square letters from Series A, only a few digits. The 1935 MUTCD specifies “Soft Shoulders” to be in Series A, but the image of the sign appears to be in Series B. I didn’t find Q or 9 in any series.
In general the metrics of the square characters closely match those of their rounded successors, much as Clearview has tried to do. The exception is W, which was approximately a series narrower in the square letters.
The Series B period (from 7 A.M.) seems to be round and the Series C period (from St. Louis) square, for no obvious reason.
2011-06-23
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Well, that’s a surprise. A photo of mine from Flickr has over 400 notes.
Of course, it’s only driven a dozen or so visitors back to the photo’s page (which actually contains a somewhat useful description), and it’s uncredited, but ho hum.
(Source: nineblindmice, via n9neblindmice)
2011-05-04
No Entry
There’s a man in London removing the No Entry signs. Or at least, he’s trying to.
He’s put there by Clet Abraham, and he’s all over the place.
Previously: Love Trees.
Photos by SophieMayPhotography, sarflondondunc, Iain McLauchlan, and JOHN19701970.
2011-03-21
Love Trees
In the last few weeks, I’ve noticed more and more of these cropping up in my contact’s Flickr photos:
They’re a modification of London’s standard signs, used to warn double decker drivers that they may want to avoid high branches. (I’ve been on plenty of buses that have run into them, making a disturbing but - usually not actually damaging - impact.)
They first started showing up (with a slightly different sticker design) in March 2010:
It seems they’re produced by an organisation called Climate Rush, and one of the nice things about them is that they’re subtle, and don’t actually stop the signs from performing their usual job. More like this.
Photos by Alistair Tse, Islington Now, Patrick Wilken, Alice, Quasor, Andrea Vail, and Eric Hands.
2010-12-17
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WATCH IT WITH YOUR LIFE (by Anna Pickard)
It is a silly sign. I’m glad someone else has a nice photo of it.
