Signs For The Homeless

We wrote about the upcoming documentary Sign Painters that's debuting later this month, and we agree with them that the paint stoke in authentic sign-painting is power. We especially see that with Signs For The Homeless—an exchange project for homeless people by artist Kenji Nakayama and Christopher Hope.

Nakayama and Hope meet panhandlers from around their town of Boston and re-create their cardboard signage by painting a more colourful version. They don't re-write anything, leaving in any misspellings or wording that was on the original sign; only adding artistic type in hopes that the new sign will be better noticed and increase the owners intake on donated change.

The Signs For The Homeless project is documented online with a Tumblr page where you can see before and after shots of the signs, as well as short interviews with each of the homeless people they create hand painted signs for.

View Signs For The Homeless here