{"id":979,"date":"2008-10-16T14:08:45","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T19:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=979"},"modified":"2018-11-10T02:30:45","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T21:30:45","slug":"designer-signs-of-the-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/designer-signs-of-the-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer signs of the times…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Toronto, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n

The signs sprang up suddenly under the cover of night. Official-looking and made of hard plastic and aluminum, they were bolted to posts at major intersections along Lake Shore Blvd. Others turned up at busy downtown hubs. \u201cQuiet,\u201d read one, in front of a downtown hospital. \u201cHomeless people sleeping.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another advised, \u201cHomeless warming grate. Please keep clear.\u201d For Mark Daye, who created the series of seven signs, it seemed a master stroke of subversion. How do you draw attention to an age-old urban issue, especially when passersby have long been conditioned to ignore the usual signage\u2014those tattered posters glued to poles and construction sites? \u201cI started thinking about the way sign systems work,\u201d says the 30-year-old Toronto student. \u201cThere\u2019s official signage. There\u2019s advertising. So I thought, what would happen if I used official-looking signage, but I put an unofficial message in it?\u201d<\/p>\n

Read the full article in the <\/span><\/em>Toronto Star<\/span> here<\/a>. View more images on Mark Daye\u2019s flickr\u2122 photostream here<\/a>. (Thanks to Aiden Enns of <\/span><\/em>Geez<\/a><\/span> magazine for the heads-up\u2026 I\u2019m not sure quite what to think of this either\u2014will it reinforce stereotypes to people with no homes, or could it actually inspire compassion, raise public consciousness, and increase support for social safety-nets?)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto, Canada The signs sprang up suddenly under the cover of night. Official-looking and made of hard plastic and aluminum, they were bolted to posts at major intersections along Lake Shore Blvd. Others turned up at busy downtown hubs. \u201cQuiet,\u201d read one, in front of a downtown hospital. \u201cHomeless people sleeping.\u201d Another advised, \u201cHomeless warming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6,8,11,13,14,15,16,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16733,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions\/16733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}