Showing posts with label signs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label signs. Show all posts

29.8.17

"Welcome" in Nine Languages


Photo by Cathal Mac an Bheatha on Unsplash
Inspired by the welcome sign in the Museum of Modern Art's lobby, it behooves me to share the text of "Welcome" in nine languages.

Who doesn't like "Welcome" signs in multiple languages? I noticed the entrance sign to MoMA's film lobby - It read welcome in several languages and cheery invitation as well: "this way to art." I'm thinking of copying it and posting a similar sign on my classroom door.

So here is the text from the MoMA sign with translations (in machine-friendly rendering):


Willkommen - German


ようこそ - Japanese


Bienvenue - French


Benvenuto - Italian


And in English - Welcome, this way to art 


欢迎 - Chinese (Simplified), Shanghainese


Spanish - Bienvenido


Cantonese - 歡迎


Bem-vindo - Portuguese


환영합니다 - Korean

30.1.13

Found Objects: Jean-Paul Sartre Found On Construction Signage

In this post, I look at a sign that is supposed to be one thing, but looked at through the lens of existentialism means something else entirely.

This sign is on a fence meant to direct visitors to the 9/11 Memorial in Lower Manhattan away from construction on the new transportation hub for the PATH train at the World Trade Center Site.

16.2.10

Signposts: Mardi Gras Irony

A sign at the entrance to the French Quarter in New Orleans tells people do not walk around with glass bottles (but you can put your drink in a plastic cup).
I found it ironic that this municipal sign is attached to a pole on the entrance to Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Louisiana.