Ryan McGinness, “Signs”, 2014, Fifty Vinyl on Aluminum Signs/ Dispalyed in Manhattan from July 28- August 30, 2014

Signs, a public art project by artist and designer Ryan McGinness, featured funky street signs fabricated and installed by the New York City Department of Transportation all around downtown NYC.

The project included fifty signs installed and displayed around the Manhattan area until the end of August in 2014. The signs were installed on traffic light posts and lamp posts along the route of the city’s Summer Streets program, a weekly event where about seven miles of NYC’s streets were closed off to allow people to freely and safely run, walk, bike and play.

The fifty signs were made of vinyl on aluminum and were manufactured and published by the DOT itself. The signs featured various contemporary designs in black, red, and white. The artist identified each sign as a number and he also included whimsical descriptions for each of the design on his website.