Reader Ethan Benatan writes:“I don’t travel through Midway [Airport] often, but late one night my flight landed at Gate A4B and all the flight attendants let loose huge sighs of despair. Even the ramp crew joked about it. Here’s why.The walkway from A4B into the terminal is not only long, it feels like a surreal […]
Alan Webber is one of the keenest business minds I’ve ever encountered. When I was writing for Fast Company, he was my editor — and made me look better than I really was. Over the last decade-plus, he’s remained a good friend. I’m lucky.And now so are you.Because Alan has compiled a huge portion of
At my son’s swim practice today, I snapped a photo of this sign — and immediately sent it to one my favorite sites: The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks.
Seems to be emotionally intelligent signage week here at the Pink Blog. Reader Julio Appling writes: I was in an immense Bangkok, Thailand shopping mall looking for a toilet, but was concerned that the language barrier might be a hindrance. As it turns out, this sign let me know exactly where I should be headed.
Just in from the Wall Street Journal . . . Microsoft, Verizon in Talks to Launch iPhone RivalBy AMOL SHARMA and NICK WINGFIELDMicrosoft Corp. is in discussions with Verizon Wireless to launch a touch-screen multimedia cellphone on the carrier’s network early next year, in a bid to compete with Apple Inc.’s iPhone, people familiar with
In Needham, Massachusetts, town manager Kate Fitzpatrick has been making a bold and creative push to use emotionally intelligent signage to get drivers to slow down. Now Fox News in Boston has picked up the story and done a terrific 90-second video report on Fitzpatrick’s efforts (including a plug for AWNM!)Alas, Fox has prevented people from embedding the video. So if you
Forty-five minutes west of Pink, Inc, world headquarters — in the once bucolic, now (sorta) booming land of Loudon County — the Virginia Department of Transportation is rolling out a cool experiment.Instead of painting perfectly straight white lines down the center of some roads, VDOT is using zig-zag lines. Huh? The crooked lines look a
Some of you know I’m writing a book on human motivation. Before I tell you what it’s about, which I’ll do soon enough, let me tell you what it’s not about — via this poster from the brilliant and hilarious people at Despair, Inc.
Brie Weiler Reynolds sends this emotionally intelligent and attention-getting sign from a park in New Zealand.
