This page last updated April 29, 2008
"Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sign." *
This page last updated April 29, 2008 |
Highway route markers have
gotten boring over time. In the early years, there were many varied
shapes and colors. Many governments opted for
the MUTCD default
(circles) or plain blank squares. The justification for
those sparse designs is that they provide for increased
number visibility and easy recognition. True enough, but
nothing says you can't design a useful sign that's
graphically attractive. Linked below are many examples of
potential re-designs. Inspiration for sign makeovers can
be found in Alabama which uses a modified state outline
on their official highway sign; Colorado, which uses the
state flag in color and Pennsylvania which uses a state
symbol. So far, since this website was first established,
Oklahoma and South Carolina have both adapted new,
enhanced, route markers. Submissions are still being
added to this collection. If you have a sign you wish to
contribute, please read the
guidelines at the bottom
of this page. If you want to see the
existing markers, check out James Lin's
Highway Route Markers website. "Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sign." * |
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| Recent additions / changes: South Carolina, Ontario, Louisiana, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, United States, Rhode Island |
Highway
Makeover is organized as follows, by alphabetical order:
Whatever you do, for the sake
of your own sanity, don't check out the Comrade Yamamoto
Experience - Creamy highway slathered on thick between slices of
burnt toast from the Top Ho & Spiffin' ® - Fully Shick -
High Power WIDE - Enjoy Grand Touring - Building Strong Karma 12
Ways ® - Crapola ® pushin - Schnäuzer chasing orginatin pappy
of this heah website " Çöm®@de ¥ämamøto " I'd
buy that for a dollar.
U.S. Highways: From
US 1 to (US 830)
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additions, corrections, suggestions, submissions and
comments for and about this web site
 "Haven't we
been here before?" - Styx - Kilroy
was hereWebsite History -This website based on an original concept by one of the original roadgeeks on the web - C.C. Slater : "Mr Yamamoto's State Highway Sign Makeover", as part of the website he founded in 1996: "The Virtual Interstate". C.C. left the internet for personal reasons in 1998. As he was not expecting to return, his permission to continue this campaign against monotony was granted at that time. This site was too important to let fade into the Wayback Machine... it has helped nurture interest and imagination in the infrastructure fan community. The site grew like a mold on week old dirty dishes. When C.C. returned to the net in 2001, resumption of control of this site was offered to him. He decided to leave this mutant beast here, and has even contributed more new signs. The original CCS site was all on two pages, and one of those was for bigger images. Someone tried put this website back on a single page and hotlinked all the images back to MY account. I had the website shut down for plagarism. Mr Slater's words are quoted to him herein as CCS. The host's words are marked RVD. Maine sign background photo courtesy my friend Jonathan E. Ponder of Lakeland, FL. |
| S U B M I S S I O N G U I D E L I N E S : Yes, we are still accepting signs. No signs have been submitted for countries in Africa, yet. Requested size of submissions is 75 x 75 pixels in JPG, GIF or BMP format (roughly 1" x 1" or 25mm x 25mm). Wide-sized (3 digit) sign submittals should be approximately 94 x 75 pixels (roughly 1.25" x 1" or 32mm x 25mm). Oversize submittals will be mercilessly shrunk before posting, no matter how bad it makes them look. New designs will be added as time and space permits. Descriptions of proposed signs will not be posted unless accompanied by a picture. If you are shy or embarrassed about your drawing ability, check out the current submissions. All sign contributions and commentary are assumed to be freely reprintable by the webmaster on this site. Preferred file naming convention: Your initials + postal / internic country code + a number. Please do NOT copy a previous submission by someone else and change the colors and / or slogan. Such ripoff signs are usually rejected. Your commentary on another's submittal may be added at my discretion. If you would like your original graphics or commentary that were posted here earlier on your behalf removed or altered, let me know by e-mail. |
"All persons who created the various highway signs should be hired by all DOT signage businesses. These are great. So unique and colorful that they would more than like have to be made available for purchase to the public. I know I would not mind having one from each of the states." - Tom from KC
More Sign Makeover Sites:
Gene Van's My Land of Misery - Has bigger versions of his submittals here.
(c) 1998-2008 Copyright reserved R.V. Droz. Do NOT reprint, repost or republish any part of this website without express consent of the webmaster. Individual images and commentary assumed (c) Contributors - but - if you are the representative of a city, state or country government and actually want to use them on a real sign, or even just borrow the concepts, you can safely assume that the contributors are donating the designs for the geeky pleasure of changing your agency's design. In that specific case, express consent is given. Violators will be trespassed by the Samoan twins, Attu and Kippu.
Why is this site Great? Because International Highway Makeover did not boom like Yamamoto's State Highway Makeover. I don't have a cool nickname like him. Also, the older name was misappropriated by a copycat site. So - we are now Great. Don't you feel special? Also might be borrowed from an old Texas Instruments "Math on Keys" book.
* Yes, this is a homage to the former ABC Wide World of Sports. "Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sport." It's a shame that ABC sports is gone now, replaced by ESPN.