Archive for category: Signs

Erecting a façade    (2007.03.24)

How to waste $60,000 “beautifying” subway entrances

What happens when you expose the TTC’s flaws    (2007.03.20)

They ignore you and try to push through a proposal to make the situation worse

More Museum mayhem    (2007.03.13)

Let’s Scotch-tape a sign on top of another sign, then beat that new sign to shit

It took less than a day    (2007.02.26)

…for the TTC to make its signage during the subway diversion even worse

Bay Lower    (2007.02.25)

THRILL-CAM ride through a disused subway station

Open question for Logo Cities    (2007.02.23)

They aren’t planning on doing something so rash as to charge speakers to attend, are they?

Nerves of steel    (2007.02.12)

Here I am at the Broadway stop of Vancouver’s SkyTrain, photographing an aberrant sign that uses Meta instead of the unaccountable and perplexing Plantin (also seen at Heathrow Airport, the obvious inspiration).

Just as I lifted my camera, four cops walked by, one of whom stared right at me, as seen here. I took my shot and, with nerves of steel, double-checked it on the LCD. I pocketed my camera and waited for the train.

Try this in Toronto and you get to endure a talking-to by Grandpa Moscoe.

Rejected proposal to ‘Eye’ concerning TTC design    (2006.11.16)

A proposal (rejected, of course) for Eye on the typography of the Toronto subway