{"id":1348,"date":"2009-09-28T18:52:12","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T22:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/?p=1348"},"modified":"2018-09-22T00:12:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T04:12:02","slug":"bad-signage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/bad-signage\/","title":{"rendered":"Examples of Bad Signage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/_tonetank-for-president.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1390\" title=\"tonetank_sm\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/tonetank_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"468\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is this guy really running for president? If he is, I don&#8217;t think this ad would  help him get the votes he would need to win. Nevertheless, the design of the poster made me want to visit his web site. I think this advertisement is a clever way to get someone&#8217;s attention, but in the end of the day, I just don&#8217;t get what Tone Tank  is trying to say.<\/p>\n<p><!--more See more examples of bad signage \u00bb --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/_special_perfumes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1392\" title=\"perfume_sm\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/perfume_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"468\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This ghetto ad does not make me want to buy any perfume from this store, although it does sound like they are offering a serious bargain here. I would rather pay the extra money to smell good then to smell like garbage, which is where it looks like this ad came from.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/_useyourblank.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1394\" title=\"mta_sm\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/mta_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This ad really confused me. First, I don&#8217;t understand what the ad is trying to promote or say. Second, the typography of the word &#8216;blank&#8217; and the colors they are using just don&#8217;t work. The New York City government was trying to be creative and clever here, but I don&#8217;t think this ad will be successful in helping to support whatever cause they are trying to promote in any way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/0plow.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1397\" title=\"plow_sm\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/plow_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" \"624\" height=\"832\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I really would like to raise the plow, but where do I raise it?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/0shoot-the-freak.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1399\" title=\"freak_sm\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/freak_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" \"624\" height=\"468\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For my life&#8217;s sake, I would never sit here. These guys are asking for trouble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this guy really running for president? If he is, I don&#8217;t think this ad would help him get the votes he would need to win. Nevertheless, the design of the poster made me want to visit his web site. I think this advertisement is a clever way to get someone&#8217;s attention, but in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-visual-communication"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":59,"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2494,"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions\/2494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}