"This volume showcases 111 current examples of signage design from across the world, indoors and outdoors. Thse cover a wide range of typologies, from individual buildings like museums, schools and airports to larger contexts such as traffic navigation systems."--Jacket.

When all of the signs except Caution, from School Crossing to Ranger Station to a stoplight, decide to take a vacation, they learn how important their jobs really are. Includes sign glossary.

Introduces signs and symbols frequently seen along the highway.

When Yoko gets lost in the airport, she uses her sign-reading skills to find her way back to her mama.

As the great city of New York moves, changes, and evolves every day, the few remnants of its past go unnoticed. New York City's "ghost signs"--advertisements painted across the facades of buildings that date back to the 19th century--are often invisible to the busy New Yorker, but defiantly conspicuous if only we turn our eyes and look upwards. These faded representations of the city's rich economic and social history are slowly disappearing before...