Signs in the wake of Katrina

Not suprisingly, when you google for images of Katrina, you still get several pages of porn starlettes, micro dogs and Katrina and the Waves. The people using Flickr are on it though, in fact they're in it. Below are several links to flicker images of Hurricane Katrina's relationship to signage.

Please help out if you can by making a donation to the Red Cross.
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McDonalds
Taco Casa
Water Street
Walking on Water
Hurricane Bay Car Wash
Go Away
Sign Prank
How Do You Want Your Burger
Burger King
Broward
Less Stress

Variations of the Letter M

Metro Bits is quite possibly the most complete resource I've seen for learning about subway sytems around the world. In addition to the spectacular logo gallery, there are some amazing pictures of outstanding architecture, and views from trains.


via:
Unscathed Corpse

Disney Signage

Douglas Bowman takes great pictures and designs great websites. It's no wonder that even his vacation snapshots have such amazing composition.

Free Flying Speghetti Monster Stickers!

Thanks to boingboing, I've been following the Flying Speghetti Monster cult of pastafarianism. It's a new parody religion designed to make people question the Kansas State Board of Education's decision to include "intelligent design" in its science classes.

If you can prove that Jesus is not the son of the
Flying Spaghetti Monster you could win $1000000!




If all of this wasn't cool enough already, I've discovered another sign blogger!
Signs Never Sleep is offering a free Flying Spaghetti Monster car decal to the first 100 boingboing readers that request it. Signs Never Sleep is the weblog for the
Lincoln Sign Company out of New Hampshire. please be sure to click through their amazing galleries of fine craftsmanship.

Behind the Typeface: Cooper Black

• Simple • Friendly • Bold •



Cheshire Dave and crew tell the story of Copper Black through this beautifully edited mocumentary in the style of
VH1's behind the music.

hosted by:
Veer

Stop stealing our "Fucking" signs

The mayor of an Austrian town called "Fucking" has appealed to British tourists to stop stealing the road signs.

via:
ananova.com

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more fun with bad words

DELETE

De-Letering the Public Space.

Delete! was a project that took place this summer in Vienna, from the minds of Christoph Steinbrener and Rainer Dempf. They completely obstructed the view of all signage with bright yelow fields in an entire shopping district for two weeks.
Although the signs are back to normal now, if you go to the Delete! website, you get a little bit of a sense of what it's like to navigate without the written word.








via:
typographica

Florida Man Cited for Sign Code Violation

From:
boingboing

Florida man painted profanity on house, busted
Derick Cooper, 43, of Hudson, Florida, was busted for painting a message on the side of his house allegedly directed to his 73-year-old terminally ill neighbor, Carol Hastrich. The sign read: "Die you miserable bitch." The irony is that he was not cited for the content of the message. From the St. Petersburg Times:

Deputies told Hastrich's family the message did not violate any laws, her daughter Dea Albertson said Wednesday.

Instead, Cooper was cited for an illegal sign because the wording exceeded the permitted size for a sign in a residential area, Pasco Code Enforcement Officer Patrick Phillips said.

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Florida signage

Escape from New York

I had a blast in New york! The band was well received, we played with a bunch of really cool bands, and met some new friends. I love NY!

check out Violet Blue's pictures:
at the Knitting Factory
Galapagos and Misc.

Hungry March Band
Slavic Soul Party


New York signage:
the bridge and Tunnel club
Peter Aaron
satan's laundromat 1
satan's laundromat 2
satan's laundromat 3