Signs of the times

Author
mediachef
Post
11.3.2009
 
Anthony Discenza, Street Signs Project. via Open Space

Anthony Discenza, Street Signs Project. via Open Space

I love signs. My growing personal collection is here. There is a real joy in finding a sign like the tagged “Respect Signs and Signals” (Boston),  but many artists have mastered such interventions as a kind of physical meme. So I particularly enjoyed Joseph del Pesco’s interview on the excellent SFMOMA Open Space blog with Anthony Discenza about his Street Signs Project, “Coming Up: Greater Horrors.

Other favorites include, of course, the amazing Rigo 23

Rigo 23, Innercity Home, San Francisco

Rigo 23, Innercity Home, San Francisco

Germaine Koh’s Journal on mobile signs.

Germaine Koh, Journal

Germaine Koh, Journal

Steve Lambert’s equally funny mobile arrow sign.

Steve Lambert

Steve Lambert

Finally, straight from the horse’s mouth

Robert Fleege, What makes outdoor so powerful

Robert Fleege, What makes outdoor so powerful

Which is proved by the ban on public billboards in Sao Paulo.

Sao Paulo, no billboards

Sao Paulo, no billboards

btw, Discenza is selling limited edition prints of his signs for a new project. Help support his habit.