amaz­ing! and very sad at the same time!

Some­one could easily make a whole book on the sub­ject of Brussels’s embar­rass­ing sig­nage. Hel­vetica was also used for the metro, bus & tramway sig­nage, set in CAPS, and mixed with Arial in some stations… A com­plete redesign of the sig­nage system has been planned since, but its appli­ca­tion is a long and painful process.

Thank you very much Yves for men­tion­ing my resource, appre­ci­ated!

The drop­ping of the coun­ters with such a metal cut-​out con­struc­tion was to be over­seen, with the con­stant warm light­ing behind the (small) metal counter will make the adhe­sive (prob­a­bly 3M468) warm and it grav­ity will do the job of falling coun­ters. Pre­vi­ous signs from Abn-​Amro Bank in the Nether­lands where expe­ri­enc­ing sim­i­lar prob­lems a couple of years ago, now the have changed the con­struc­tion.

In the book from Andreas Uebele “Sig­nage Sys­tems and Infor­ma­tion Graph­ics” are some details about air­port sig­nage con­struc­tions how to do it prop­erly (and proper type­face use).

this really drives me crazy. How sad the ‘organ­i­sa­tions’ don’t want to pay for a real work and just stick to the cheap ones, here we go with the result.
More­over, the brus­sels air­port, my air­port, the one i use the most, is the only one where i get lost, because of bad sig­nage.

I’m just back from San Fran­cisco, and actu­ally it’s far worse than I thought. When leav­ing the air­port I exam­ined the dif­fer­ent instances of the Hel­vetica sig­nage, and where the coun­ters didn’t start slid­ing you can plainly see that they were applied by eye. This means that in about 4 out of 5 char­ac­ters the coun­ters are incor­rectly posi­tioned; almost all the low­er­case “a”s for exam­ple are wrong. Urgh…

Too funny! :D
And I don’t think I’ve seen a grunge font with this design idea. Yet ;)
Missing/removed coun­ters, yes, but not with “fallen coun­ters”…

I like what hap­pens to the “e” - it kinda resem­bles the new nor­we­gian “Posten” logo…