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Skate or Buy: Skateboard Shop Rolls Out Clever Skateable Sidewalk Signs

Most urban designs are at best useful for skaters as an afterthought, or more typically: specifically created to foil skaters, but not this set of signs. The Drive Skate Shop in Vancouver ...

Optical Illusion Crosswalk Aims to Slow Down Speedy Iceland Drivers

If you were zooming down a familiar street and suddenly saw a bunch of concrete steps floating in the street in front of you, would you hit the brakes? The strange sight would likely be enough to ...

Light Capsules: Projections Bring Building-Side ‘Ghost Signs’ Back to Life

Exposed to the elements, hand-painted signs on building exteriors chip, crack and fade over time, but one artist is shining a spotlight on these historic illustrations, restoring them through ...

Heathen’s Gate: Ingenious Overlay Reveals History of Ancient Roman Ruin

A pane of glass overlaid with a simple line drawing brings crumbling ruins to life at one of Austria's most famous historical sites, reanimating the partial building near the Open Air Museum ...

Artistically Enabled: 18 Weird & Creative Handicapped Parking Signs

Blue & white Handicapped Parking signs and stencils are one of urban life's most familiar icons... and then there are those that have been creatively hacked. There's a fine line ...

Out Of Limits: 15 Retro-Futuristic Soviet Town Welcome Signs

In Soviet Russia, town welcome you... with retro-futuristic city limits signs that promised more than the blustery, blustering Cold War-era USSR could deliver. The welcome is, er, radiant ...

Butcher Chopped: 15 Bloody Unusual Meat Markets

Traditional independent meat markets are dying off faster than the products they serve, though these 15 unusual butcher shops somehow managed to make the cut. ...

Liquid Stop Sign: Emergency Laser Projection on Sheet of Water

Serving as a bright and bold last-chance warning for vehicles about to enter tunnels, this wall of water painted turns into a kind of hovering hologram designed to STOP impending drivers from ...

Lights Out: Hong Kong Bans Iconic Neon Signs from City Streets

In an effort criticized by local businesses as well as global visitors, Hong Kong has deemed neon signage illegal and is ramping up its systematic removal of these historic place-making ...

Social Signage: Digital Street Sign Gives Dynamic Directions

The shape is a familiar classic - a central post pointing toward different destinations, sometimes near and other times a world away. This evolved version, however, replaces static locations and ...

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