What's up with that sign on Turk & Larkin

Annise Gross gets the lowdown on this historic Tenderloin Landmark. Read the her piece on
Bold Italic

flip it smack it rub it down

via: CourtStar
related post: sign spinner olympics

H & M steals sign design

Clothing retailer H&M is selling stuff with an image that was stolen from Torey LaConsay

corporations are not people.

from the artists website:

H&M UK have purloined another artist's work. MINE! On the left, you'll see a sign I painted as a love letter to my neighbors in the East Atlanta Village. On the right, you will see a floormat and pillowcase featuring a design with an uncanny resemblance. In H&M's response, they claim that they can assure us that "this particular design has not been influenced by your friends work and that no copyright has been infringed." I beg to differ, H&M.

Sign Hacked by Slayer

On my morning commute today I saw this at 14th & Church

previous road sign hack:
zombie warning sign

San Francisco Bank of America ATMs converted into truth machines

Rainforest Action Network activists took to the streets of San Francisco and turned every single one of Bank of America's Automated Teller Machines in the city into Automated Truth Machines. Using special non-adhesive stickers that were designed to look exactly like BoA's ATM interface, the activists gave the bank's customers a menu of what their money is being used for, including investment in coal-fired power plants, foreclosure on America's homes, bankrolling climate change, and paying out fat executive bonuses.

see complete flickr set
here

Seattle Burger King Billboard Gets Diabetes Graffiti

Someone has graffitied this Burger King billboard in downtown Seattle to transform it into criticism about how sugary fast food contributes to diabetes and the obesity crisis.

The original billboard does that classic advertising trick of getting away with making a joke while still promoting an idea that's not so great for you, which is to eat more deserts at Burger King.

The billboard shows an ice cream cone, a parfait, a milkshake and then a Burger King logo. Underneath the items in progression it says "side," "entree," and "drink." To modify it into a commentary, on the logo, the vandalizer drink a bloated person with a frowny face and x-ed out eyes. Below it they scrawled, "diabetes."

the consumerist

via: COPCWA

The 40 Best Protest Signs Of 2011 via Buzzfeed

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-40-best-protest-signs-of-2011

Steve Powers fka ESPO on sign painting

via:
DJ Junkdrawer

see also:
ESPO Rain Coats

unintentionally sexual church signs

BART Police Warning stickers

I'm glad BART has decided to warn it's users of the inherent risks they take every time they ride the public rails system with these new stickers. BART police are there for our protection, because our taxes pay their salaries, so if they didn't actually kill people who could possibly be criminals, wouldn't they be wasting our hard earned money?




via:
Cafe Intifada

1920 Time Capsule

1920 Time Capsule, originally uploaded by David Gallagher.

Ghost sign for Boss of the Road work clothes exposed on 3rd Street in San Francisco's Bayview District during demolition for an expanded neighborhood library

The sign dates from before 1921, based on San Francisco Assessor's records for the demolished building

here's a 1928 shot of the street from the Jesse Brown Cook Collection at UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library
www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf8z09p4xr/?brand=oac4

Passive Agressive street signs

nice sign find from @ekai



previous posts involving Eddie:

Sign Montage from the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear

laser etched macbookpro

Steve Lambert's new project

Does capitalism work for you?





past evilsigntist posts involving:
steve lambert

Dallas Clayton - Tribute to Shel Silverstein

I saw this “Sidewalk Ends” sign the other day and it occurred to me that as a children’s book author/part time vandal I was obligated to add a sign of my own. R.I.P.

via:
laughing squid

condoms to go

this is my friend Ted







check out his cool video

buy his CD

More Is Always on the Way

I had the pleasure of seeing Bryon Boyce's "More is Always Better" last night at Southern Exposure Art Gallery. It is part of a large group show entitled and themed around the word "Boom!" I was amazed by the double entendres he was able to create by being at the right place at the right time, with the right specific perspective to shoot these amazing signage portraits. I recognized a few of the shots, as signs I had also seen around San Francisco, but the way the Boyce presents them in context with other signs, create a social commentary that I would have never imagined.


Boom! at SOEX until December 18th

Sign Montage from the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear

some cool footage from the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear.
shot and edited by my good friend Eddie.

Sign Montage from the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear from ekai on Vimeo.

lipstick enigma

This computer-driven sentence-generator, using rules and lexicon written by the artist, invents and writes a new line of text, and displays it on the sign when triggered by a motion detector. The sentences mix the language of engineering with the language of beauty advertising.

Lipstick Enigma from Janet Zweig on Vimeo.

via:
laughingsquid

fuck this guy

BLF Fortune

BLF Fortune, originally uploaded by Laughing Squid.