MetaFilter posts tagged with signage

Ikea de-Futurafies

joeclark — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:26:20 -0800

Ikea de-Futurafies. You may have noticed something at once familiar and unfamiliar about the 2009 Ikea catalogue: The company switched from a custom variant of Futura to the font you stare at all day in your browser, Verdana. And type nerds are losing their shit! Verdana is now being used company-wide – even for double-page newspaper ads and illegal urban graffiti campaigns. “They want to be able to give the same visual impression both in print and the Web,” says a report.

AREA MAN TAKES lOWERCASE l PROBlEM INTO OWN HANDS

joeclark — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:28:01 -0800

AREA MAN TAKES lOWERCASE l PROBlEM INTO OWN HANDS AND INSTAllS OWN CORRECTIVE SIGNAGE

A sign of the atomic age

adamrice — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:53:02 -0800

Roto-Spheres were dramatic animated neon signs, with 16 spikes projecting from a central ball; the left and right hemispheres rotated in opposite directions, and the whole thing rotated as well. Only 234 were made, and not many are still working, but despite their rarity, they are somehow instantly recognizable as the ultimate signs of the atomic age.

The Eureka Tower Carpark

nthdegx — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:19:12 -0800

The Eureka Tower Carpark in Melbourne makes makes great use of forced perspective for its way-finding system, designed by Axel Peemoeller.

"Corel Draw, With Gradients, and Blippo Fuckin' Bold, Man!"

optovox — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:37:39 -0800

The Draplin Design Company is embarking on the World's Longest Yard Sale. Also: The Draplin Project, by Jess Gibson, and Why America Is Fucked. Alternate YouTube link.

Sign, Sign, everywhere a sign.

Mitheral — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:23:35 -0800

US Traffic & Road Sign Test. Five part, 30 questions each, multiple choice test on US road, highway and traffic signs. Results include inline scoring and explanation of each sign. The average for part 1 (the easiest) is only 82% and 15% of takers score less than 70%.

Top Tokyo tape typography

WPW — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:42:13 -0800

Signs in Shinjuku station made with coloured sticky tape.

Giant Woman Licks Man

taz — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 04:50:31 -0800

Post No Bills. At the intersection of life and advertising one may unexpectedly find art, or at least humor. Henry Ho shines a light on it. (42 pages. Or view all thumbnails together)

McWhodini's

Hands of Manos — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 06:35:37 -0800

The Floating Logos Project .'Floating Logos' is a working title for this project. The images are inspired by signs perched high atop very tall poles in order for people to view them from a very long distance. The poles are digitally removed from the image in order to give the illusion that the signs are disconnected from the ground as they ominously float above us.

FreewayBlogger

srboisvert — Mon, 24 Nov 2003 08:39:52 -0800

Freewayblogger.com When you put a sign on the freeway people will read it until someone takes it down.

onegoodmove — Wed, 09 Jan 2002 08:27:02 -0800

Be careful what font you choose. Everyone deserves a good laugh at least once a day. I'm still laughing.

nathan_teske — Sat, 04 Aug 2001 13:49:30 -0800

The construction of Memphis area Apple Store held-up by sign ordinance prohibiting the display of food products on signage. Sweet Gods of Commerce: What would Orange Julius do?! [via MacNN]

briank — Mon, 02 Apr 2001 07:53:26 -0800

Zippy's Pal Bites The Dust Anyone who reads Bill Griffith's Zippy the Pinhead comic strip will instantly recognize the Doggie Diner statue, which was toppled over by high winds on Sunday. Many SF folks love the statue as a kitsch cult icon even without the Zippy association, but I only knew of it through the strip.