The signs are all there
while back and wasting film was no longer an object I have been taking
pictures of signs and notices, all sorts of signs and notices,
forbidding, excrutiatingly meaningless, you name it if I had the camera
with me I took it and if I didn't I made a mental note to return at a
later date.
Too many signs mean the messages they try to convey is often lost.
There are even town planners, road designers and safety experts out
there who think it can be safer to do away with road signs altogether.
Hans Monderman is one of them and you can read more about his
experiment here and here.
Too many don'ts make even the most compliant want to do free their
inner rebel (you don't believe me try the "don't thing of a blue
elephant experiment", it's as it says on the tin, you tell somebody to
think about various things like a white cat, a pink cow, a yellow
monkey and then you tell them "don't think of a blue elephant" and the
first picture which will crop up in their heads is a blue elephant).
Bad wording is simply confusing - my current favourite (which
unfortunately I could not take a picture of because of current rules
about taking pictures in swimming pools) can be found at Falmouth
swimming pool and states that unaccompanied children will not be
admited unless accompanied by an adult - make your minds up people, is
the child unaccompanied or not?
Forbid something and all you have not forbiden is defacto authorised,
leading to an increasing list. Too precise an interdiction and you will
need to expand it at a later date, leading to a bigger sign a bit like
this one. The stencil says it all.
1.4.05 20:01
|
(1.4.05 20:57) ok, fun is vorbotten , for forgotten, |
|
(1.4.05 21:25) completely |
