| Doug Lansky might be one of the world’s most respected travel writers, but he is better known as the orchestrator of The Signspotting Project, a longstanding mission to collect images of the world’s funniest road signs. This passionate quest for examples of unintentional roadside humour has been the subject of a nationally syndicated column in the US and three Lonely Planet books, the most recent of which has just been released in the UK. Now, Lansky’s project has evolved into a form of art – though he is reluctant to call it that – with The Signspotting Project exhibition taking place in Edinburgh’s Princes Mall throughout August.
On its first UK outing in Edinburgh, the exhibition will be split into two, displaying some signs indoors at Princes Mall and others on the roof. With around 40,000 images in his bank, Lansky says that whittling down his catalogue to the 100 featured in the show was tough. ‘I started out with the ones I had in the first two books,’ he says. ‘There were a couple of hundred in each. Plus, there’s only so many that work well without their backdrop. Basically, the ones I chose were personal favourites that worked well universally. I tried to opt for those that had the least text and were more visual.’ All the above commentary is replicated from The Edinburgh Festival Guide website....... |
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