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Fake News: Miniature Signs Around the City Convey Confusing Messages

If all the official signage that can be found around an average city bores you, you might not even notice the ones that are a little bit off, warning you of dangerous pigeons and tiny sinkholes ...

Going Going Gone: 12 Closed & Abandoned Travel Agents

Online trip planning has decimated storefront travel agents and these closed & abandoned travel agencies show the loss goes beyond just tour three. The Jet Age saw an explosion of ...

Link Rot: ‘Social Decay’ Renders Tech Media Giants as Urban Abandonments

Physical businesses that fall on hard times often leave signs in the built environment, like the distinctive facades of deserted or adapted Pizza Huts, but what might social media sites look like ...

Warming Signs: Clet Abraham Rewrites Rules Of The Road

Guerrilla street artist Clet Abraham may be the Banksy of the boulevard, hacking road signs with stickers and encouraging people to question authority. Our lead image dated August 31st of 2013 ...

Vape Trails: 12 Hot Vape Shops & E-Cigarette Retailers

E-cigarette and vaping supply shops have sprouted up like mushrooms in recent years but when it comes to branding, this youthful industry is still in a fog. The electronic cigarette ...

Talking Points: 12 Odd Japanese Safety & Traffic Cones

Plastic safety cones have become so ubiquitous along Japan's roadways, unusual measures have been taken to ensure they stand out amongst the crowd. ...

Inner City Visions: 12 Eye-Opening Urban Eye Charts

Have no illusions, these awesome urban optical eye charts test not only your vision but the varied ways in which we visualize the world around us. ...

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 ...

Guerrilla Wayfinding: User-Powered Signs Aid Exploration

What are you missing out on in your own city by sticking to your established routes each day, or driving instead of walking? Sometimes it's easy to forget how close any number of interesting ...

Intelligent Interstates: 5 High-Tech ‘Smart Highway’ Systems

With prototypes set to hit the pavement in the Netherlands next year, these interactive  interventions take innovation back from a focus on the car and put it right on the road. Examples ...

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