Categories: Digital Printing

A Boom in Brazil

Brazil’s ubiquitous outdoor signs seem to cover every empty, urban space. The brightly colored, large-format graphics project lively images onto every street corner and thoroughfare. São Paulo’s politicians banned these mostly unregulated signs, but the city of Uberlandia, where these photos were taken, had no such ban.

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Jeff Russ

Jeff Russ is a content studio manager for SmartWork Media and was the senior art director of Signs of the Times from 1996-2021. A graphic designer and illustrator with an interest in sign design and sign history, Jeff documents important, interesting and notable design trends in the sign industry as a contributor to Signs of the Times. He has written dozens of features for Signs, and his column, Design Matters, was published for more than a decade.