– So I’ve found this really funky font for ‘Festival’. It’s called Handel Gothic, which sounds really trad, but it’s really super cool. And I’ve got this awesome Illustrator…

A POSTER IN THE WINDOW of an estate agent. There’s nothing wrong with repurposing a design from one medium to another, but perhaps before printing this A4 sheet they could have…

A BEAUTIFUL NOTICEBOARD in Wahaca Mexican restaurant. It’s full of great detail – note the target in Don’t Shoot, the cancel sign in Lemon, the drips in 100%, the bottle in Tequila – yet…

I SPOTTED THIS SIGN in a car park in Great Yarmouth. Well, yes, it certainly comprehensively covers the range of available payment options. But I can’t help thinking this information could…

WHEN IS INFORMATION too much information? When the viewer is so overwhelmed by input that it’s impossible to take anything in. There may well be some vital message on this…

IT TOOK ME A WHILE TO FIGURE OUT why the designer of this sign in a Shrewsbury hotel chose to set the A in ‘caution’ in upper case, at a larger…

IF YOU’RE DESIGNING A QUICK SIGN, then it makes sense to grab an arrow off the internet rather than going through the laborious process of selecting the Arrow tool in Word….

THESE TWO NOTICES appear on adjacent walls in University College Hospital. Both say the same thing. Note how the amateur version goes to great lengths to try to make the text…

CAN A LAVATORY FLUSH ever be beautiful? Yes, when it’s as elegantly understated as this one. No words are needed: the large and small buttons express their purpose without text, and…

MAYBE IT WAS THE SIGN WRITER’s day off, and his work experience assistant did the job. Or maybe he’d had a heavy lunch and was suffering from indigestion. But can there…