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Laminated signage in an inner city apartment complex.

Materials: Duct Tape, Laminated Paper
Location: Minato-ku, Tokyo

Laminated signage held together with plastic ties.

Materials: Laminated A4, Plastic Ties
Location: Minato-ku, Tokyo

Signage stablized with a chain threaded through a breeze block.

Materials: Breeze Block, Chain
Location: Minato-ku, Tokyo

Commercial signage stabilized through use of simple wooden strip.

Materials: Wood
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo

Chair used to signal location of store, and display products…as well as possibly discouraging parking.

Materials: Chair
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo

The outdoor menu for this food store is secured with plastic twine taped to two bricks, the base evened out with broken paving tiles.

Materials: Bricks, Paving Slab, Plastic Twine, Duct Tape
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo

Lunchtime signage on polystrene food packaging lids – written in markers, stabilized with crate. Signage is attached to hinged board for easy storage/transport (see last image).

Materials: Crate, Markers, Polystyrene, Tape, Hinged Boards
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo

Signs advertising local restaurants lined up and stabilized over pedestrial railing. A system which also keeps them off the thoroughfare. Stabilized with tape and string.

Materials: Railing, String, Tape
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo

Laminated A4 signs affixed with tape proclaim night use of the park prohibited, and encourage people to call the police emergency line if they see anyone suspicious.

The signs are ambiguously official, being layed out in generic Excel style and signed with a simple ‘Akishima City’ or ‘Akishima City Park Authority’ – they look like they could have been made by anyone. I removed one as a test, and it was replaced promptly. When I placed my own sign (as part of the kokonohanashi project) it was promptly removed. So it appears the signs are official, or at least part of a dedicated campaign.

Materials: Laminated Paper, Tape
Location: Akishima, Tokyo

Parking for the local hairdresser is marked out with painted breeze blocks. Robust, temporary, practical.

Materials: Breeze Blocks, Paint
Location: Akishima, Tokyo

“Apartment number 303 is currently vacant, and as a result the building owners have placed green tape over the letterbox to prevent it from filling up with advertising mail. Whenever an apartment is vacant they always tape up the letterbox with green tape.

It appears the occupants of apartment 202 have gone on an extended holiday or business trip and will be leaving the apartment vacant long enough for surplus advertising mail to become a problem. Therefore they, or the building owners, have placed white tape over the letterbox.

If the occupants taped up the letterbox themselves I think to myself “Creative thinking 202″. If the building owners did this then I wonder “Is the different color tape significant, or is it just what they had on hand on the day they taped up the box?, Does green mean vacant and white mean temporarily unoccupied? If so doesn’t this signal to potential burglars that 202 is where the goodies are?”.

This mystery remains unsolved.” – courtesy of Byron Kidd – Thanks again Byron!

Materials: Duct Tape

A4 sign signalling a no-entry zone at rugby training.

Materials: Laminated A4, Plastic Twine
Location: Hino, Tokyo

Plastic and tape cover old name plate in unoccupied house.

Materials: Plastic, Tape
Location: Akishima, Tokyo

Duct tape across post box signals an unoccupied house.

Materials: Duct Tape
Location: Akishima, Tokyo

Sign ordering residents not to feed stray cats, or dump unwanted ones.

Materials: Laminated A4, Plastic Ties
Location: Akishima, Tokyo

Pot plants outside a suburban residential office demarcate parking space, prevent cyclist curb-cutting (safety), set the limits of the official office zone of use, and beautify.

Materials: Pots
Location: Akishima, Tokyo

(Originally posted on Tokyo-DIY-Gardening)

A warning to all dog walkers – no dumping on this piece of earth peeking up through the cracked concrete. Plastic covering as protection and signage.

Materials: Plastic
Location: Akishima, Tokyo

“Dump No Rubbish” sign in card and marker posted on drink vending machine can disposal bin.

Materials: Card
Location: Akishima, Tokyo

Outdoor lightbox-type signage is supported and secured by bricks placed under and on top of the structure. One sign to six bricks.

Materials: Bricks
Location: Akishima, Tokyo

PET bottles (soft drink and shochu) filled with water secure a store banner and stabilise promotional flags.

Materials: Pet Bottle, Plastic Twine
Location: Akishima, Tokyo