About

This is a Manifesto Club photo-album, capturing unnecessary, absurd or patronising safety warnings in public spaces. By turning our cameras on needless safety tape and signage, we hope to expose those who put them there - and encourage a more rational approach.

This project launched on 23 October, with a photo-essay by Tom Mower, 'Attention Please: A Walk Interrupted by Safety Signage'.

View photo-essay here

We are now asking people to send in photos of any over-cautious safety signage they encounter in their towns, cities, or places of work. This open online album will run for 8 weeks, until early December. Each week a 'photo of the week' will be chosen for the album's homepage.

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We are inviting reflections on this photo album, and on the question of safety measures in public space. (See Responses)

The Manifesto Club

The Manifesto Club is a pro-human campaigning network, with members from a variety of political and professional backgrounds. We challenge restrictive policies and ideas, and seek to develop a more optimistic, free-spirited alternative.

www.manifestoclub.com

Tom Mower

Tom Mower graduated from the communication design course at the Royal College of Art in 2006. His current practice includes photography, uniform design and graphic design: though varied, his work is underlined by an interest in the visual language of safety, and also in developing an experimental approach to design. He has coordinated discussions for the RCA's Woodhill Park Critical Forum, and his projects have featured in magazines such as lodown, Grafik, World of Interiors, and Useless Magazine. He has also lectured at Westminster University. A trail of his activities and ideas can be followed at:

www.browserline.blogspot.com