Signs of the times

I have become quietly obsessed with park signage and historical markers. Already I’ve posted a couple of times on particular examples in Paris and Philadelphia, and now people are starting to feed my addiction by sending me images of other interesting specimens. It’s perhaps a bit of a specialist topic for the general visitor to [...]

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More tell-tale signs

A recent post looked at the vagaries of park signage in Paris. Since then, I have been keeping an eye out for good examples. And last week, on a trip to the US, I found some. The City of Philadelphia has, in my opinion, got it right. So, what makes these signs work? It is [...]

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Tell-tale signs?

Signage. It sounds the most boring of topics. But in public parks and gardens, signs can make such a difference. Good ones make us feel welcome, confident, wanted. Bad ones leave us confused and irritated, sensing that our presence is merely tolerated. I’ve been noticing some examples in Parisian landscapes. First, some new signs in the [...]

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