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Faking It In France

Planning a trip to France this summer? Watch out for Four Tail Monkey crossings, The Misproportioned Fish points of interest, and make sure your canary isn't carrying ballons. PANOS is a signage exposition on the streets of Lyon, produced by Unchi and supported by a crew of international artists.

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Cool idea. I think the ones that actually riff on the instructional and iconic nature of road signs are the most interesting and successful. The ones with graffiti-ish images look nice, but they don't mean anything.

And then I said …
Jon Parker
  • Wednesday July 14, 2004 3:12 PM
  • Jon Parker
  • Veer Community Team

Of course, if you're looking for pubic signage-based perfomance art that actually means something, you can't do much better than Richard Ankrom's I5 Project.

And then I said …
Grant Hutchinson

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