Making road signs! *EDIT* in OD

Well, kinda.

In Middlesbrough, there are these signs telling you where things are. Problem is, they’re kinda unnoticable, so much so that I only realised today that I walk past one every day (I may post a pic of one of them), and horribly out of date.

So, the council have decided to get new ones. Inbetween, Writers Block North East hyave been given permission to turn them into works of art.

This, to me, sounded interesting, so I went to the workshop yesterday. Which was fun. We went to have a look at one of the signs and then did some writing exercises to get us warmed up. Then we got to designing. We’re not allowed to use swearwords, or anything that resembles actual road signs (though we are, as I discovered when I put forward my sci-fi places idea, allowed to direct people to fictional places) but, apart from that, anything goes.

This was the fun bit. Creating these things that might actually (depending on the council agreeing to them) be appearing all over town.

Everyone was shown everyone else’s and then we left. I have been told that I can email them stuff (so I’m going to go through my ODathon stuff from last year) and when they are printed and ready to go, we’ll be going around town putting them up. I will be takihng pictures of the ones based on my stuff.

I think it’s cool. Shame they can’t be permanent, but still a fun way to make use of something and hopefully remind people that the signs are there before they become proper signs again.

I’ve actually been quite busy this week. I had my writing class on Monday, the Tory Boy film on Tuesday, this thing last night, tonight nothing, Boro Tweet Up tomorrow night and on Saturday I’m going to a shop, wonderfully named Who-Ray, for their first birthday Doctor Who celebration with Graeme Harper and some Daleks (amongst others). There’s something wrong, I’m never usually this sociable.

Incidentally, Who-Ray, for some strange reason, sells insence cones. So I’ll pick some of them up, alongalong with a pack of the chocolate scented sticks they have.

I’ll stop boring you now.

Will

*EDIT*

Here’s one of the signs in question (actually, the one I pass every day). The new ones are going to be red, but inbetween, we’re going to have a little fun…

Will