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…