Kelly mentioned the new
book out from the folks at Lonely
Planet called Signspotting. The book is a small format coffee-table style book (it’s about as big as
a mass-market paperback) that is filled with absurd, funny, and at times gut busting photos of signs from around the
world. While the concept and some of the photos will be familiar to those who frequent Doug Lansky’s Signspotting Web site, it is still kind of cool to
have them all bundles up nicely into a keen little book.
I was hanging out yesterday watching TV and flipping
through the book, and I must have really annoyed my wife because I kept giggling out loud to myself every time I came
across a photo of a sign like the one that serves as a road crossing warning and reads: Dead Slow Children. Or
the advertisement from Thailand that reads “Super Perfct Type Writing Institute”. Anyone who has
spent time on the road in a foreign country has seen signs like this, and they never fail to amuse. This is a neat
little book. Could make a fine Christmas gift, too.