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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ken Husting was circling downtown Los Angeles one day in 2013 trying to find parking when, all of a sudden---Hallelujah!--- he found a spot. Then he looked up to see six signs attached to pole telling ...