Hi,

I'm a designer in London and I'm desperate for the toilet...signs you
see on doors for ladies and gents. Anything unusual, clever, different,

beautiful, ugly, odd, bad or bizarre is required. Or you may have
designed some.

If you send me either contact details or images you will get a credit
in the book (I have a publisher lined up and a
deadline!).

I will also need some idea of where the signs were is possible. The
images don't have to be amazingly good quality and the book is not that

large.

So if you have seen something, know where they are and if possible have

contact details, have a picture of them you can send me or have
designed some yourself and want them included, let me know (send an
e-mail to [email protected].

many thanks

Regards

Lee Newham
[email protected]

    > I'm a designer in London and I'm desperate for the toilet...signs you
    > see on doors for ladies and gents. Anything unusual, clever, different,

My favourite is at the Mendelium in Brno (the genetics museum).

You can probably work out how a genetics museum might designate
them...

The Glasgow School of Art (designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh)
has its gents doors decorated with what appear to be stylized
stained glass ****s. CRM must have had an odd sense of humour.

I wonder how they label them in gender reassignment clinics?

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On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 17:16:52 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, Jack Campin - bogus address
<[email protected]> arranged some electrons, so they looked like this :


... > I'm a designer in London and I'm desperate for the toilet...signs you
... > see on doors for ladies and gents. Anything unusual, clever, different,
...
... My favourite is at the Mendelium in Brno (the genetics museum).
...
... You can probably work out how a genetics museum might designate
... them...

The Y is five times smaller than the X ?

[email protected] wrote:

    > Hi,
    >
    > I'm a designer in London and I'm desperate for the toilet...signs you
    > see on doors for ladies and gents. Anything unusual, clever, different,
    >
    > beautiful, ugly, odd, bad or bizarre is required. Or you may have
    > designed some.

I never saw it, but supposedly the facilities for the local
"doggie" crowd in some hunting venue had pictures of a
pointer (for the gents) and a setter (for the ladies) on the
doors. One can only hope non dog-lovers were apprised of
the difference before going in search of the loo!

Jazz at Pearl's, 256 Columbus Avenue (Telephone: 291-8255)

One door has a picture of Duke Ellington, the other Sarah Vaughan.
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Jack Campin - bogus address wrote:
    > > I'm a designer in London and I'm desperate for the toilet...signs you
    > > see on doors for ladies and gents. Anything unusual, clever, different,
    > My favourite is at the Mendelium in Brno (the genetics museum).
    > You can probably work out how a genetics museum might designate
    > them...

Er.. XY and XX?

    > The Glasgow School of Art (designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh)
    > has its gents doors decorated with what appear to be stylized
    > stained glass ****s. CRM must have had an odd sense of humour.

The Blackie Boy pub in Newcastle has (or certainly had a couple of
years ago) DICK and FANNY written on the doors.

Seems to still be the case
http://www.theburglarsdog.co.uk/review.html?25

Edmund

On 10 Jun 2005 06:06:03 -0700, "Edmund Lewis" <[email protected]>
wrote:

    >The Blackie Boy pub in Newcastle has (or certainly had a couple of
    >years ago) DICK and FANNY written on the doors.

and drawings of both on the walls? :-)

Martin wrote:
    > On 10 Jun 2005 06:06:03 -0700, "Edmund Lewis" <[email protected]>
    > wrote:
    > >The Blackie Boy pub in Newcastle has (or certainly had a couple of
    > >years ago) DICK and FANNY written on the doors.
    > and drawings of both on the walls? :-)

Not that I recall :-) but I shouldn't be surprised if the bog-wall
artists have been at work since my last visit!

Edmund

Probably both in the men's room!

On 9 Jun 2005 05:37:11 -0700, [email protected] wrote:

    >I'm a designer in London and I'm desperate for the toilet...signs you
    >see on doors for ladies and gents. Anything unusual, clever, different,
    >beautiful, ugly, odd, bad or bizarre is required. Or you may have
    >designed some.

remember the ones in a resort in Transkey, South Africa:
a lifeBUOY (for boys) and a seaGULL (for girls)...

I've never see this somewherelse... perhaps isn't a novelty --I'm of a
different "culture", thus...

best,

Jiminy

<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected] ups.com...
    > Hi,
    > I'm a designer in London and I'm desperate for the toilet...signs you
    > see on doors for ladies and gents. Anything unusual, clever, different,
    > beautiful, ugly, odd, bad or bizarre is required. Or you may have
    > designed some.
    > If you send me either contact details or images you will get a credit
    > in the book (I have a publisher lined up and a
    > deadline!).
    > I will also need some idea of where the signs were is possible. The
    > images don't have to be amazingly good quality and the book is not that
    > large.
    > So if you have seen something, know where they are and if possible have
    > contact details, have a picture of them you can send me or have
    > designed some yourself and want them included, let me know (send an
    > e-mail to [email protected].

have sent one set.

But also wanted to post this on the group as well.

Went to use the rest rooms in a Polish Resturant.

Ah, am I a triangle(inverted) or a circle? (both hollow)

I guessed right, but I've since forgotten which it was.

(I can see one justification either way for each)

Apparently, this is a common sign in the country. When I
commented my Polish (ex)colleagues said "don't you have
this sign in your country?", "Nope"

Tim

On 9 Jun 2005 05:37:11 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
<[email protected]. com>

    >Hi,
    >I'm a designer in London and I'm desperate for the toilet...signs you
    >see on doors for ladies and gents. Anything unusual, clever, different,
    >beautiful, ugly, odd, bad or bizarre is required. Or you may have
    >designed some.
    >If you send me either contact details or images you will get a credit
    >in the book (I have a publisher lined up and a
    >deadline!).
    >I will also need some idea of where the signs were is possible. The
    >images don't have to be amazingly good quality and the book is not that
    >large.
    >So if you have seen something, know where they are and if possible have
    >contact details, have a picture of them you can send me or have
    >designed some yourself and want them included, let me know (send an
    >e-mail to [email protected].

There once was (may still be) a bar in Boulder CO called "The Dark Horse".
Their r/r doors had huge stylized "pointing hands" with "MEN" on one, "WOMEN" on
the other. Each hand pointed toward the opposite door, so the question of the
moment is: "Is this the men's room or does the sign -point- to the men's room?"

The wonderful part is that they can have two sets of signs and just swap them
out periodically for maximum confusion.


(change Arabic number to Roman numeral to email)

    > I'm a designer in London and I'm desperate for the
    > toilet...signs you see on doors for ladies and gents.
    > Anything unusual, clever, different,

Let's see, I recall a [Stand] [Sit] option to identify one set of
restrooms. With a picture of a canine in the appropriate position.
Once in a seafood restaurant I was greated with [Oyster] [Clam] (I kid
you not). And I almost wet my pants before finally deciding on Oyster.
I mean, give me a frigging break here, what the heck were the
restaurant owner's thinking?

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 21:59:55 GMT, Frank Clarke
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >There once was (may still be) a bar in Boulder CO called "The Dark Horse".
    >Their r/r doors had huge stylized "pointing hands" with "MEN" on one, "WOMEN" on
    >the other. Each hand pointed toward the opposite door, so the question of the
    >moment is: "Is this the men's room or does the sign -point- to the men's room?"

Ditto for the Bum Steer here in Tucson. I'll have to drop by and
see if it's still the same.


************* DAVE HATUNEN ([email protected]) *************
* Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow *
* My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *

I have an incredible little book called Signs which has 1000 pictures of
signs from all over the world- variations of stop signs, don't park
signs, don't walk on the grass signs, bus stop, no jay walking, don't
honk your horn, school, hospital zone,etc etc etc. The cultural
variations all over the world are fascinating.

They have 10 or so pages of signs used around the world for men's or
women's restroom. One apears to be in Russian- The men's is a simple,
cute, nude outline of a little boy in profile with four dots positioned
to look like he's peeing- and the women's is a profile of a little girl
on a toilet seat with a big red bow in her hair.

Another is two faces, one of a man and one of a woman- both in elegant,
Victorian dress. A third are two French signs with a man's leg and the
other a woman's leg- He's wearing men's dress shoes and she's wearing
heels- 1940ish style. The next page has two cubes, one has a rectanglar
shape sticking up from the middle of it and the other is the same cube
but with a corresponding rectangular shape missing from the cube.
Another shows an Arabic woman with veiled face except her eyes. They
didn't show the man's sign.

And one is a triangle- wide part on top with a circle for the head. The
other is the same triangle with the point up and the same circle on the
top. Since the triangle with the point at the top appears to be
obviously a woman (dress), then the other must be the man. Maybe this is
a clue for the other poster who wondered about a sign he'd seen with a
triangle.

I'm also wondering about what you're doing this search for? It's
fascinating and sounds like fun!

Susan


    >>I'm a designer in London and I'm desperate for the toilet...signs you
    >>see on doors for ladies and gents. Anything unusual, clever, different,
    >>beautiful, ugly, odd, bad or bizarre is required. Or you may have
    >>designed some.
    >