STREET (de)SIGNS..

As you wander any part of the planet you are surrounded by street signs and furniture. In a short leap of time since the first formal signs started going up in the world we now have literally thousands of varieties of sign that say essentially the same thing but in different languages, with different graphic design and in different colours.. How come?

I'm going to make an effort to start taking lots more photos of these things on my travels from now on. You could easily start a blog just about the photos you gather as you wander (in fact someone did right here) - but I'm not going to do that. If you do have an urge to upload pictures, live or travel in the US and they are of older signs you can do that here.

Instead, I travelled the world today sat behind my 21" screen armed with Google Images to bring you a quick bunch of sign images that struck me as particularly well designed.. So, here they are..

And from New York, a series of Haiku styled road signs to make people think..

Not so 'well designed' but at least it does what it says on the tin.. of paint that was used to do it?!

And this has to be included as a statement of the obvious and scare tactic..

And that's that.

Except for this. A very funny story about one of my favourite roads and an artist who did a piece of "guerilla public service" or "public service performance". 10 out of 10 to him. Los Angeles was transformed forever.