Comments on: Public Service Graffiti http://sstrudeau.com/2005/08/26/public-service-graffiti/ Scott Trudeau's web log Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:51:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Edward Vielmetti http://sstrudeau.com/2005/08/26/public-service-graffiti/#comment-104 Thu, 01 Sep 2005 05:05:42 +0000 http://sstrudeau.com/2005/08/26/public-service-graffiti/#comment-104 You really don't even have to be that elaborate - just drop bus schedules onto the ground at bus stops from time to time, whether there's a post to paste them onto or not. My neighborhood has at least one soggy schedule that sits by the stop so that people can look up when the next bus arrives. Wheat paste howto here: http://www.citynoise.org/article/1177. For bus routes you really only need a very very bare bones bit of information, not more than a couple lines of text tops per route. You need a daytime schedule (something like 08 23 38 53) and a night time schedule (something like 31). That indicates minutes past the hour when the bus is supposed to show up. A 1" sticker would do the trick. You really don’t even have to be that elaborate - just drop bus schedules onto the ground at bus stops from time to time, whether there’s a post to paste them onto or not. My neighborhood has at least one soggy schedule that sits by the stop so that people can look up when the next bus arrives.

Wheat paste howto here: http://www.citynoise.org/article/1177.

For bus routes you really only need a very very bare bones bit of information, not more than a couple lines of text tops per route. You need a daytime schedule (something like 08 23 38 53) and a night time schedule (something like 31). That indicates minutes past the hour when the bus is supposed to show up. A 1″ sticker would do the trick.

]]> by: Scott http://sstrudeau.com/2005/08/26/public-service-graffiti/#comment-99 Fri, 26 Aug 2005 16:57:28 +0000 http://sstrudeau.com/2005/08/26/public-service-graffiti/#comment-99 Matt, I wouldn't bother with laminated maps. I'd just use paper maps and wheat paste. Wheat paste is cheap & easy to make in quantity, environmentally friendly, and if you put a layer of paster over the top of a poster stuck up with paste, it can lost for months in the elements. One 11" x 17" poster I put over a year ago in only a semi-protected part of town is still mostly in tact. Wheat paste works best on flat surfaces, similar to those of the electrical/service boxes, newspaper boxes, post office boxes, walls ... My tack would be to make separate stickers of arrows and stick them on the maps as you paste them up. As far as map sources, I think the DDA gives downtown maps away for free at parking structures and other areas, so maybe those would work? Or you could find another photo-copy-able map and do it that way? Matt,

I wouldn’t bother with laminated maps. I’d just use paper maps and wheat paste. Wheat paste is cheap & easy to make in quantity, environmentally friendly, and if you put a layer of paster over the top of a poster stuck up with paste, it can lost for months in the elements. One 11″ x 17″ poster I put over a year ago in only a semi-protected part of town is still mostly in tact. Wheat paste works best on flat surfaces, similar to those of the electrical/service boxes, newspaper boxes, post office boxes, walls … My tack would be to make separate stickers of arrows and stick them on the maps as you paste them up. As far as map sources, I think the DDA gives downtown maps away for free at parking structures and other areas, so maybe those would work? Or you could find another photo-copy-able map and do it that way?

]]> by: Matt Hampel http://sstrudeau.com/2005/08/26/public-service-graffiti/#comment-98 Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:40:38 +0000 http://sstrudeau.com/2005/08/26/public-service-graffiti/#comment-98 We're always looking for interesting things like that @ Community. Any suggestions as to a source for laminated maps? We’re always looking for interesting things like that @ Community. Any suggestions as to a source for laminated maps?

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