#wayfinding

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Pfp, Disseny / Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona / Centre Cívic I Cultural de Sant Vicenç Dels Horts / Sign / 2022

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San Francisco's Castro Station has new signs.

They look nothing like the old Muni transit signs, and that's the point. The yellow and blue signs are part of a project to create a coordinated system of maps, signs, and standards across the 27 transit agencies of the nine counties of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Instead of trying to merge agencies or complicate things further with an umbrella brand, the focus is on the service.

The monolithic new sign indicates that Castro is a train (subway) station where you can catch the KLM lines. We've already got a universal fare system in Clipper, which agency runs the KLM lines isn't that important as long as they get you where you want.

More info: MTC Regional Mapping & Wayfinding

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

In this week's Top 5:

* A Bitcoin-fuelled health nightmare in Texas (Time Magazine) * The hidden history of oil in Los Angeles (Noēma) * Buying fentanyl components online (Reuters) * Preservation over profit in Alberta, Canada (The Narhwal / The Globe and Mail) * Wayfinding with hand-drawn maps (The New York Times)

Learn why our editors are recommending these stories.

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Ron Cobb / Semiotic Standard for Alien | 1979 |

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Ethnonyms: Polynesians, Māori, Samoan, Tongan, Hawaiian/Māoli, Tahitian/Mā‘ohi, Cook Islands Māori, Niuean, Tokelauan, and Rapa Nui

Total population: 2.0–2.5 million

Homeland: Polynesia

Regions with significant populations: Polynesia, New Zealand, Hawaii, Independent State of Samoa, Kingdom of Tonga, French Polynesia, American Samoa, Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau, Easter Island, diaspora in New Zealand and the United States of America

Languages and dialects: Polynesian, Māori, Samoan, Tongan, Hawaiian, Tahitian, Cook Islands Māori, Niuean, Tokelauan, Rapa Nui, English, French, Spanish

Religion: Christianity (majority), Protestantism, Catholic Church

Polynesians are the Indigenous peoples of the vast Polynesian Triangle of the Pacific, a region that includes places such as Aotearoa/New Zealand, Hawaiʻi, Samoa, Tonga, Tahiti, the Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau, Tuvalu, and Easter Island, among others, and they are united less by a single uniform culture than by a deeply connected family of related languages, ancestral traditions, oceanic histories, and social values that developed across immense distances of open water. Their heritage is rooted in extraordinary long-distance navigation, as ancestors traveled and settled remote islands using sophisticated knowledge of stars, winds, currents, birdlife, and swells, creating societies that were at once highly adaptable and strongly tied to land and sea. Polynesian cultures are often characterized by strong kinship networks, respect for elders and ancestors, communal responsibility, and ceremonial life, with genealogy playing a central role in identity, social rank, and connection to place; in many communities, people understand themselves through layered relationships to family lines, chiefly or chiefly-influenced systems, villages, and sacred landscapes. Languages within the Polynesian branch—such as Samoan, Tongan, Māori, Hawaiian, Tahitian, and others—share common roots and reflect both historical unity and local distinctiveness, while arts such as tattooing, weaving, carving, chanting, dance, and oral storytelling preserve memory, status, spirituality, and history in living forms. Polynesian appearance is also diverse, because these are not a single biological type but varied populations shaped by thousands of years of movement, intermarriage, and adaptation across different islands and diasporas; what connects Polynians most powerfully is cultural continuity, collective resilience, and a deep relationship to the Pacific as homeland, pathway, and source of identity.