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O! say can you synonym

One of the things I do regularly on this blog is share my rewrites of museum labels. This rewrite was sparked by …

An Unconventional Image

Another rewrite of a label from Flickr. The original version of this label takes a long time to get around to explaining …

Rectangular brown sign with the words "please don't move the rocks they are placed to make trout happy"

Don’t Move!

Please don’t move? Why not? Are the rocks going to… Oh! Don’t move the rocks! So many signage style guides seem to insist …

Why didn’t they see the sign?

The Simplification Centre is a not-for-profit that works with organizations who need to communicate complex information. They often turn their attention to …

David and Goliath

My editing brain never turns off, so one of the things I plan to do frequently on this blog is share my …

Read!

I love these posters because they bring home with just three words each—just three syllables, even—that words have not only denotations but …