Comparison between the usual American city parking signs and the redesigned sign in the LADOT Parking Sign Pilot Program (photo by Michael Dorausch, via Flickr; illustration courtesy lamayor.org) Last ...

Your car gets towed, and who do you blame? Yourself? God no, you blame that impossibly confusing parking sign. It’s a fair accusation, really. Of all the questionable communication tools our cities ...

Like many design projects, this one starts with the simple question "how can we fix this?" Parking regulations in big cities are complex and confusing, and public parking signage can take so long to ...

Squinting out a car window to decipher a stack of pole-bound parking signs is one of L.A.’s more annoying experiences. That could change starting this weekend, with the launch of a new sign aimed at ...

American drivers are frequently baffled by complicated parking signage. Now a campaign by a frustrated guerrilla designer could help make the system less absurd, says Jon Kelly. For a nation so ...

WASHINGTON — Parking signs in D.C. can be very confusing. Some joke that you need a Ph.D. to decipher them. But what happens when the signs are flat- out wrong? A ...