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DIYDPW (#1)

Posted December 7, 2011 by shaun in DIYDPW

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Pittsburgh, PA, USA

This is the first installment of what I hope will be a regular, weekly blog post highlighting global examples of Do It Yourself Department of Public Works (DIYDPW) projects (I wish I had come up with that acronym, but I owe the idea idea to a friend)....

Basically, I would define these as any examples of municipal signage or infrastructure, generated by citizens outside of state-sanctioned means, that fulfill a perceived need in the situation within which they are installed. I'd like to focus specifically on street signage and way-finding graphics, and I'd like to take contributions from our readers! Got a photo of a great handmade or otherwise DIY sign that fixes a problem the local municipality had otherwise overlooked? Send it my way. Email (include a web-ready image and location found) to DIYDPW at gmail dot com

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Hope that you'll put these up as a Flickr set as well.

Posted by: Ryan Shepard at December 7, 2011 10:33 AM

Probably will do that once I get enough of them compiled.

Posted by: shaun at December 7, 2011 5:43 PM

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