{"id":370161,"date":"2025-12-25T23:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T23:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/370161\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T23:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T23:23:08","slug":"new-signs-look-official-but-theyre-public-art-designed-to-delight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/370161\/","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

\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

SHARE The Humor With Your Friends On Social Media\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2013 credit, Cameron Hunt\/Supplied From New Zealand comes the story of a public art project in disguise\u2014as official-looking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,42198,229,88,3103,50501,25136,1148,32432],"class_list":["post-370161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-creativity","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-humor","tag-laughs","tag-new-zealand","tag-surprise","tag-urban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}