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We are very happy to report that we have never had to make a sign for a missing pet (or, goodness forbid, human), but if we did we doubt we would be able to be as funny as the concerned owners behind Neatorama’s 8 Not Sad Missing Dog Signs. Even faced with the very real [...]

Today, apparently, is Panic Day, which has us seriously preoccupied about everything. Something is going to go wrong. We are not yet sure what, but we can definitely sense it. Something bad is coming and all we can seem to do is freak out in anticipation. That’s it: we’re hitting the panic button. But wait, [...]

As we increasingly become estranged from the realities of nature and the quickly disappearing fauna in the places where we live, it’s no wonder that our encounters with animals (at zoos) are very awkward and uncertain meetings that need to be helped along with very explicit rules and clear signs. Sometimes, though, the over-signing of [...]

We’re all for clever and subversive street art, especially when it’s done to surfaces that more or less deserve it, as is the case with many of those so-called vandals whose work is featured in Manofest’s listicle of The 25 Funniest Moments in Vandalism History. We especially like the playful revenge a graffiti artist took [...]

Our first attempt at juvenile vandalism involved the complete removal of all the STOP signs at a suburban intersection. This prank did not end well for anyone, except maybe the local traffic cop, who suddenly had something to do with her afternoon. At any rate, thereafter we resolved to only deface and amend street signage [...]

As kids, we attended church very regularly for three years because it was mandatory at our school. Worse still, the church was in the school, so it wasn’t like a field trip or anything, and there also wasn’t a funny sign with nutty messages to lure in unsuspecting saps. Speaking of which, Manofest’s listicle of [...]

We’ve long contemplated defacing street signs, but aside from the problem that we’re total wusses about this sort of thing, we keep living on blocks that already have funny names and wouldn’t really gain anything from being defaced. We used to live on Somass, which we suppose could use and E in there, but it [...]

More than any other person in the world, Helvetica Man–a fixture of signs and signals all across the globe–gets himself into all kinds of mad-cap adventures and strange, often dangerous situations. Surely you’ve seen him going through emergency exits, queuing behind red lines and crossing streets, but odds are you’ve never seen all of Fubiz’s [...]

A very interesting article in yesterday’s New York Times explains that our brains are often at their most active, creative and effective when trying to process bad instructions, misinformation, or trying to find patterns when no signs are present. The accompanying image (pictured) shows a blank road sign on a desert road, which got us [...]

Whenever we go to a protest we plan on bringing a sign then chicken out at the last minute. You know, they’re awkward and heavy, and sometimes the people behind you get mad because you’re blocking the view. Plus, if it’s a really big and smart protest you have to worry about how your sign [...]