Pentagram Papers Reads Signs of the Times

Signs, signs, everywhere signs, including in the new issue of Pentagram Papers, the thirty-ninth in the firm’s series of privately published “examples of curious, entertaining, stimulating, provocative, and occasionally controversial points of view.” SIGNS, presciently proposed by Pentagram partner DJ Stout back in the good ‘ol days (i.e., spring 2008), focuses on the plight of the homeless. Photographer Michael O’Brien used a large format camera to capture searing portraits of homeless people in Austin, Texas, and these are interspersed with Randal