Via the Spacing folks, a comprehensive guide to one transit system's misadventures with signage, both conventional and digital. I'd rather focus on best practices than worst, but this was telling: "Despite spending $400,000 on the prototype project, the TTC decided against put up the $8 million required to retrofit the entire system. Sixteen years later, the prototype signage has yet to be removed from St. George station..."

Very clean, very nice, still short of the mark.

Exemplary material history. Well, material-semiotic, I guess.

Via Alex, latterday hobo signs spring up in London. Well, not "spring up" - it's a much less organic process. But still.

Glad we got ours when we did. : . )

Road surfacing with built-in photovoltaics and signage. Huh.

A largely visual, coffee-table book on the hypermediated urban visual environment, understandably if unfortunately Nippocentric. The texts were too poorly designed to read comfortably, at least standing in Kiasma's gift shop...