7 posts tagged “sign”
You might have to view this even larger to read it properly. It was photographed by author Cory Doctorow in a market in China.
Supposedly it is a guide to employees. There are probably a few emporia in New York that could use a similar sign..........
It is bad that I say almost all the forbidden phrases daily at my job, right?
Who can tell us what Forbidden 8-10 say, please?
Supposedly it is a guide to employees. There are probably a few emporia in New York that could use a similar sign..........
It is bad that I say almost all the forbidden phrases daily at my job, right?
Who can tell us what Forbidden 8-10 say, please?
There's a flickr pool called Stick Figures in Peril. It pays tribute to those hapless round headed people who remind us that the floor is slippery when wet and not to rock the vending machine.
It's about time stick figures got recognized for all the work they do.
While delightful, not every picture is suitable for children or the weak-minded.
It's about time stick figures got recognized for all the work they do.
While delightful, not every picture is suitable for children or the weak-minded.
Here we have a most excellent sign. For the notsoquick, some punctuation:
The Mac Store
OR
WTF! Mac Store!
It is unknown whether this was intentional or just a function of how neon signs are created.
In technical, yet still interesting, terms this is called a 90-degree rotational ambigram. Ambigrams are really cool (in unrelated news, they featured heavily in the book Angels & Demons). Basically, it's a word or phrase, that can be manipulated to create another word or phrase (or sometimes the same one again). Common manipulations include rotation, reflection, tiling/tesselating, or foreground/background. Often the typography is thoroughly mangled, but they are neat regardless.
I wonder if ambigrams exist using nonroman character sets. It would be awfully difficult for Chinese or Japanese, but pretty easy with Korean and perhaps Russian (I'm not too familiar with Cyrillic). Now you'll probably spend the rest of the evening trying to ambigram your name. Don't bother lying about it.
The Mac Store
OR
WTF! Mac Store!
It is unknown whether this was intentional or just a function of how neon signs are created.
In technical, yet still interesting, terms this is called a 90-degree rotational ambigram. Ambigrams are really cool (in unrelated news, they featured heavily in the book Angels & Demons). Basically, it's a word or phrase, that can be manipulated to create another word or phrase (or sometimes the same one again). Common manipulations include rotation, reflection, tiling/tesselating, or foreground/background. Often the typography is thoroughly mangled, but they are neat regardless.
I wonder if ambigrams exist using nonroman character sets. It would be awfully difficult for Chinese or Japanese, but pretty easy with Korean and perhaps Russian (I'm not too familiar with Cyrillic). Now you'll probably spend the rest of the evening trying to ambigram your name. Don't bother lying about it.
Signs of Life is a website dedicated to documenting the strange signs found around the world. Some are contradictory like this one, others are just ridiculous (a french one shows a dead child), others are just in strange places.
You can submit your own photo and caption.
You can submit your own photo and caption.
This is a real sign at a real train station in a real town in Wales. What I like best is the phonetic pronunciation. When a word reaches 58 letters, there's no amount of help in English or any language that's going to help you there. The English translation is: St. Mary's Church of the White Hazel Near to the Whirlpool of Llantisilig of the Red Cave.
I though Hoyt-Schermerhorn Station on the A line in Brooklyn was a mouthful. (Pronounced by locals as Hoit Skirmehaun)
I though Hoyt-Schermerhorn Station on the A line in Brooklyn was a mouthful. (Pronounced by locals as Hoit Skirmehaun)
The sign on the left is from China. Apparently most Chinese people, including police, don't really know what it's supposed to mean.
Don't blow up your car?
The best guess is that carrying flammable materials is forbidden, but I prefer the alternative examples (in the comments) such as peacocks are forbidden, or no Carmen Miranda tributes.
However, it seems that very similar signs can be found in Europe, such as this French sign, that says Forbidden. Apparently the French are none the wiser as to what is not allowed.
Do you have any ridiculous or inexplicable traffic signs near you?
Don't blow up your car?
The best guess is that carrying flammable materials is forbidden, but I prefer the alternative examples (in the comments) such as peacocks are forbidden, or no Carmen Miranda tributes.
However, it seems that very similar signs can be found in Europe, such as this French sign, that says Forbidden. Apparently the French are none the wiser as to what is not allowed.
Do you have any ridiculous or inexplicable traffic signs near you?
This is a nice town in Austria called Fucking (pronounces foo king).
A nice touch is the picture of the children beneath. The sign says Please - not so fast!
A nice touch is the picture of the children beneath. The sign says Please - not so fast!
