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You may know the landscape of Pittsburgh by its hills, rivers, roads, buildings, and trees, but the eye is strongly drawn to the text and symbols of the signs that comfort with familiarity, that irritate you with their distractions, that please you with their symmetry, or that illustrate the economic condition of a neighborhood. Signs are always trying to say something. Signs make our spaces a mongrelization of type-styles, graphics, and fashions: The futuristic becomes the modern becomes the dated becomes the retro. The passage of time provides the subtexts of rust, faded paint, and delamination. Signs are necessarily brash, democratic, and confessional. But I've said too much. Let the signs speak for themselves.
The Pittsburgh Signs Project invites photogaphers from the 14 counties of southwestern Pennsylvania to submit up to 5 images for possible inclusion in Pittsburgh Signs: 250, a full-color book showcasing images of signs, past and present. For full guidelines please email: 250signs@gmail.com, or click to download them now! Submission Deadline: April 30, 2008. This project is made possible in part by a grant from Pittsburgh 250 Community Connections.
