Archive for the Emotionally intelligent signage Category
Published January 30th, 2012
Comedian Louis C.K. garnered a lot of press — and made a ton of money — last month when he disintermediated the major television networks and released his latest special as a $5 download on his web site. Less well known is that the funny man (if you haven’t seen this bit, you need to) [...]
Published January 6th, 2012
Alastair Dryburgh of London sends this glorious example of emotionally intelligent signage, which he spotted next to the elevators (aka, the lifts) at the Tate Modern. It makes one think. And, I’m guessing, it makes more than one head for the stairwell.
Published January 1st, 2012
John Re spotted this on a street in North Adams, Massachusetts. Seems like good advice for 2012.
Published December 20th, 2011
Those emotionally intelligent signs keep pouring in to the Pink Blog. Below are four from the last few weeks that our elves especially liked. Clare Conroy offers a nice example from a JB Hi-Fi store in Canberra, Australia, of how to use signage to empathize with guests and change the experience of being in a [...]
Published December 5th, 2011
In an apparent (if perhaps momentary) triumph of emotionally intelligent signage, New York City is trying to tap hidden reservoirs of empathy among pedestrians and drivers alike by using — get this — haiku. As NBC New York explains: “Colorful 8-inch square signs featuring safety messages in haiku are being installed at high-crash locations near [...]
Published November 7th, 2011
On Saturday night, Mrs. PinkBlog and I — along with two-thirds of our progeny — decided to go out for pizza. We chose a place about three miles from our house called Il Canale, which a friend (an Italian journalist posted in the States) had raved about. I wasn’t sure what to expect. But moments [...]
Published November 2nd, 2011
Each week PinkBlog readers send us lots of examples of emotionally intelligent signage they’ve spotted in their communities. Here are four recent submissions that caught our eye. The talented Michael Bungay Stainer sends this sign, which does a nice job of eliciting empathy in the viewer: P.K. Ware offers a stern but attention-getting way to keep [...]
Published October 5th, 2011
Here are two that came over the transom this week . . . (HT: Lots of you) (HT: Nadya Pagan, Arthur Bushkin, Jeremy Epstein)
Published September 8th, 2011
Michael Marx of Gilbert, Arizona, emailed recently to say, “There can never be enough emotionally intelligent signage.” And he included this example from the parking lot of a nearby Chili’s restaurant:
Published September 3rd, 2011
Here’s a sign I saw in SoHo during a family trip to New York last month:
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