Archive for category: Signage

Carlå    (2008.02.24)

Nobody writes carburettor here; it is as incorrect as tyre and kerb.

Carburations, however, is pan-anglophone.

Lovin’ it. (Not)    (2008.02.01)

I’ll be the judge of that    (2007.12.06)

Information architecture    (2007.11.16)

Four phases of the side destination sign on an Orion VII.

The bus tells you where it’s going only a quarter of the time. The front sign breaks the same information into three phases, telling you where the bus is going only a third of the time (updated example below).

I’ve seen this before (with signs alternating destination with I’M A NEW BUS or, inexplicably, THE FUTURE IS HERE), but the cost in information content is too high. Tell me where the bus is going, please. (Did you know there is actual research on how to use these “variable-message” signs properly?)

What exactly is a “SEN/STU,” and isn’t there a ¢ symbol?

A gap E    (2007.06.27)

A curious way to lay vinyl across a board.

Don’t you just want to pop it like bubble wrap?

Marquee    (2007.05.11)

Located on one of Toronto’s quantum-state strips – between the two Gerrards and Coxwell.

The faux-neon is a nice touch, as is the ancient Letraset typeface, Quicksilver. The whole motif must have gone over well when the leather queens held their formal there.

Ring Audio    (2007.04.07)

At various locations in the east end, and somehow still in business.

I guess guys are willing to cross the river to buy the last vinyl turntables still in manufacture.

Fruits de    (2007.04.05)