Emotionally intelligent signage

4 diverse emotionally intelligent signs

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 […]

Can signs help service workers coax a larger tip?

If you’re one of those people who tosses your extra coins into the tip jar after you’ve purchased an overpriced cup of coffee, how do you make that decision? Two photos that arrived here at Pink, Inc., world headquarters this week suggest that counter workers are deploying a variety of sign-based strategies to wangle your

Emotionally intelligent signage comes to Broadway (and other avenues)

The Big Apple is hauling out the Big Skeleton. The NY Times City Room blog reported last week that Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Transportation Department seems to be taking a page from the emotionally intelligent signage playbook in an effort to reduce speeding. As the official city press release explains, “This month, a new series of

Can signs turn (road) rage into rapture?

Dirk Van Staeyen of Belgium sends these examples of emotionally intelligent signage along with a brief explanation: “I drove home from holiday today and came across these signs (in the Netherlands) on a stretch of highway where roadworks were in progress. These smiley signs are placed 1 kilometer apart from each other, each time showing

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