A Bad Sign 1
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I found this sign quite comical in the back halls of the University I am at. At somepoint, somebody put some serious money into signage, as every bulletin board, closet, nook, and cranny has one of these vinyl cut signs. They were all probably part of the original construction in 1972. Obviously somewhere along the line, someone discovered that the delivery people and the designer of the sign had two different vocabularies. The beauty is they chose to retain the beautiful original sign and just add a very polite additional clarification…great work guys!
Comments (5)
40mph_dan said:
This signage circa 1972? Seems far too early of a guess for vinyl-cut. Looks like computer typeset, that begins in the 80’s. Pics look like recent computer designed signs.
Posted on October 6, 2005
clinton carlson said:
40 mph, I believe you’re right. It looks like vinyl lettering didn’t get its start until the early 1980’s. Regardless, at some point there was a large signage campaign, that produced hundreds of these signs, including the beautifully rediculous signage above.
Posted on October 6, 2005
Jonathan Hughes said:
I’m wondering if it’s not from even later than the early 80s. Would a vinyl sign cutter back then have Bank Gothic?
It looks like the second sign was done with a little more care than the first. Bank Gothic (at least the instance I have from Bitstream) has really wide and uneven kerning. It looks like whoever did the second sign did a lot of manual kerning to tightn things up evenly.
Posted on October 6, 2005
jyoseph said:
Very clever!
Posted on October 6, 2005
clinton carlson said:
Jyoseph, I hope you mean “clever” in a sarchastic, “what were they thinking” sort of way.
Posted on October 6, 2005