urbanscale + signage   7

Spacing Toronto: Clear subway signage
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..."
toronto  transit  signage  informationdesign  municipalgovernment  from delicious
august 2010 by Urbanscale
Luxofor design concept
Very clean, very nice, still short of the mark.
design  signage  sidewalking  streetfurniture 
june 2010 by Urbanscale
The Fallout Shelter sign: An indelible Cold War symbol
Exemplary material history. Well, material-semiotic, I guess.
signage  informationdesign  culture  history  1950s  1960s 
may 2010 by Urbanscale
Londonist: Have You Seen These Chalk Symbols On The Streets Of London?
Via Alex, latterday hobo signs spring up in London. Well, not "spring up" - it's a much less organic process. But still.
london  urbanism  code  signage  design 
april 2010 by Urbanscale
Solar Roadways
Road surfacing with built-in photovoltaics and signage. Huh.
infrastructure  energy  signage  traffic  urbancomputing 
march 2010 by Urbanscale
[TIMES OF THE SIGNS]
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...
signage  screens  urbanism  design  cities  facade  japan 
august 2008 by Urbanscale

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