Design
Los Angeles Just Solved the Street Parking Sign
Least. Confusing. Parking sign. Ever.
For a city so reliant on cars, Los Angeles sure hasn't had much success with street parking signs. Its infamous "totem" sign poles—parking regulation stacked atop parking regulation—have been known to climb as high as 15 feet. Grab your stilts and take a gander at this recent beauty from Culver City (via Curbed LA):
No more. On Friday, the city unveiled new "easy-to-read" parking signs that are actually easy to read. The "grid-style" signs rely on color coding and graphic representations rather than words—a perfect fit for the age of emoticons. So long as drivers know the time and the day of the week, and that green is good and red is bad, it's hard to see them getting confused by these design gems: