{"id":471668,"date":"2025-12-25T23:48:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T23:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/471668\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T23:48:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T23:48:45","slug":"new-signs-look-official-but-theyre-public-art-designed-to-delight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/471668\/","title":{"rendered":"New Signs Look Official But They\u2019re Public Art Designed to Delight"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\u2013 credit, Cameron Hunt\/Supplied<\/p>\n

From New Zealand comes the story of a public art project in disguise\u2014as official-looking signs with bizarre declarations.<\/p>\n

One warns that an abandoned building is \u201cslightly haunted,\u201d while another one cheekily announces a walking speed limit of 2.83 kmh. Another simply reads \u201cDon\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite borrowing the font and color palate of official Christchurch signage, the 6 installations are meant to \u201cplay with the way we take authority and signage so seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those were the words of the Cameron Hunt, who designed and mounted the signs as part of the Little Street art festival early this month.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea was to make signs that look official, but with completely absurd messages, therefore creating moments of confusion, followed by little bursts of joy,\u201d Hunt told the Guardian.<\/p>\n

Kiri Jarden, the city council\u2019s principal adviser for community arts, agreed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe totally support artists using humor to gently interrupt and engage passersby.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nThe Guardian hunted down<\/a> some online engagement, as in this era of digital media the signs quickly made their way onto social media. One, a self-described \u201cfast walker\u201d on Reddit, asked a community group if the signs were \u201cfor real?\u201d<\/p>\n

Another thought it some of the best \u201cGuerilla art\u201d he\u2019d ever seen.<\/p>\n

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