Signage Workshop

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I don't see a forum specifically related to education and workshops, so I hope this one is associated with that.

If this has not been addressed, I would like to propose a workshop -- ideally preceding a march/demonstration -- to put together effective signage.

The main issue I've seen: Legibility. It is simply not possible for human eyes to read many of the signs from a distance, and especially from a moving car. The type is too fine or too small, and there are too many words to read in the span of a few seconds.

Another issue: Message. I understand the decentralized anti-ideological model, and respect people's preference to make their signage however they like, so my suggestions would be voluntary. But I think it'd help dispel notions that this is a movement without a cause if a larger number of our signs were directed toward specific and consistent ends.

This ideal could be met by:

  1. providing optional prefab signage.
  2. brainstorming slogans and letting people write their own interpretations of them into their signs.
  3. offering a topic, letting people riff off of that during or after the brief signage workshop.