Monday, March 15, 2010

WTF Week: Follow Arrow

My collection of images that seem to defy any sort of comparison to other images has been steadily growing. Sometimes this happens when a particular category of design is always good or always bad, regardless of the particular companies behind them (the designs on the sides of fuel-oil trucks always seem to be incredible, for example). Other times, I know there’s something out there and I just have to wait to find it. And wait. And wait.

Then there’s other stuff that is so bizarre, or so wrong, or so ugly that it simply needs to stand alone so you can bask in its insanity. This week is devoted to that stuff. So without further ado, WTF Week kicks off with a doozy.


I saw this wonder of redundancy on a construction barricade in the city. The best part was, this sign must have been repeated about 8 times along that barricade. Do you think they put up regular instructionless arrows first, and then discovered they had to be more specific? Or maybe this is a message from the Cult of Arrow.

5 comments:

  1. I belong to the Cult of Arrow and this is not our sign. Our signs point to the right.

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  2. I would think they point up

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  3. When we learn to levitate, they will point up. Thanks for the reminder.

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  4. Some people can't read English and need pictures to help them understand.

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  5. These is for the one-in-a-thousand Manhattan pedestrians who are indecisive on any particular day. As soon as you see it you can let your eyes unfocus again and carry on.

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