Item description
A screenshot of a webpage with black text and a white background. At the top left corner is the name of the website, “COVID-19 signage archive”; and at the top right are links to different sections of the website, titled “about”, “map”, “tags”, and “upload”. In the far right corner is a search bar. A thin line separates the top from the webpage content. Towards the left half of the page is an image of a handmade sign made on white paper. The sign reads “no mask”, “no service + proof of vax required for dine-in” in all capital blue letters, surrounding a drawing of a cartoon-ish face with a long, brown and green mouth. To the right of the sign is tracking information: “location” and “Seattle, WA”, “date” and “dec. 8, 2021”, “author” and “h”, “tags” and “emoji, english, hand-written, masks, vaccines”, “text” and “no mask no service + proof of vax required for dine-in”. Underneath this section is a directory to see the previous sign, the next sign, a random one, or all.
Image 2020
COVID-19 Signage Archive 2
Eli Fessler
The COVID-19 Signage Archive, located at https://covid-signage.net/, aims to preserve and invite exploration of the worldwide, physical, pandemic-related messaging that has come into existence beginning in early 2020. The project seeks to archive these ephemera, and to help document the linguistic landscapes of shared concepts such as social/physical distancing, mask-wearing, and hand washing – while simultaneously serving as an accessible dataset/corpus available for linguistic and sociological analysis.