Emotionally intelligent signage on Fox News
In Needham, Massachusetts, town manager Kate Fitzpatrick has been making a bold and creative push to use emotionally intelligent signage to get drivers to slow down. Now Fox News in Boston has picked up the story and done a terrific 90-second video report on Fitzpatrick’s efforts (including a plug for AWNM!)
Alas, Fox has prevented people from embedding the video. So if you want to see it, go to the site, scroll down, and click the fourth video on the left (the one called “Needham Traffic Signs”).
A sign with flames and words on it.
Emotional signage from hell? Where’s the fire? Zigzag white lines painted on a road of the conceptual age. Slow down! Not quite what I was planning. A search for genuine motivation and A Whole New Mind?
When the images and the words from a consecutive string of postings are viewed simultaneously from the big picture direction it all looks like a right brain metaphor that “visually” describes how a mute right brain feels about living within the hectic zigzag rush of an L-directed, L-dominated world. But a right-brainer can perceive patterns even within a set of unrelated random events.
Of course, a left-brainer can often be so focused on zigzagging from one thing to the next in some perceived linear fashion that a communication from the right brain that comes in the form of a big picture pattern could be missed.
And all of that raises the possibility of different versions of the six-word “verbal” autobiography.
A “sign” version would be something like a picture collection of at most six pieces of signage that somehow emotionally describe all or a part of a person’s life.