Wednesday, 15 August 2007

Local Design

Local Design

I visited Brighton the other day which is renowned for being the gay capital of England and everywhere you looked there were rainbow flags- popularised as a symbol of gay pride and diversity. However, I also noticed something that I haven’t noticed in a lot of other places- an element of local design.

When I was walking around, the ‘to let’ or ‘for sale’ signs outside houses and flats were embracing the rainbow flag. Granted, the normal estate agent signs aren’t exactly the most eye-catching pieces of design- you wouldn’t normally look at them and take any kind of notice as to the design of them but I thought it was really good to see a support of the local community through the display of designs in the surrounding area.

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