Forever Homeless: 7 Closed & Abandoned Pet Shops
These closed and abandoned pet shops eerily echo with the long lost sights, sounds and smells (oh, those smells!) of what were effectively urban retail zoos. Why Not Both? It's a pet shop, ...
Tag: signage
Fully Cocked: 10 British ‘Cock’ Pubs & Taverns
Call it a Cock & Bull story but a disproportionate number of British pubs, bars and taverns have 'cock' in their name. What's up with that? Ye Olde Cock While we're on the topic, why ...
Good Lock: 15 Kool Key Cutting Shops & Signs
Key cutting shops may be circling the retail store drain but their doom isn't quite locked in, as these 15 classic key cutting shops and signs illustrate. Key cutters occupy a cluttered ...
Trumped Up: Stores & Businesses Trading On The Trump Name
An orange by any other name doesn't taste the same, as the owners of these Trump-named but otherwise unaffiliated stores and business can truly attest. Take Trump Tobacco, a Huntington ...
Creative Crosswalks: Artist Adds Color to Brighten Crossings for Students
Part art project and part urban safety experiment, this series of Funnycross installations in Madrid have been positioned outside a cross section of city schools. Designed by Bulgarian ...
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 ...
Guerrilla Signage: Designer Fixes Street Parking Sign Stacks
Anyone who has parked in a major metropolitan area has seen something like this: a vertical array of signs that provide a confusing (sometimes even self-contradictory) instructions about when you ...
Almost There: Signs from the Near Future May Blow Your Mind
A few are far-fetched, but most of these notices are shocking in part because they are nearly believable - some may be an accepted reality within the next few years (click to ...
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 ...
