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DJ Stout and his team at Pentagram (Austin) designed Signs, a collaboration with Texas musician Joe Ely and photographers Michael O'Brien and Randal Ford, which focuses on the issue of homelessness. The book features a series of homeless signs that Ely collected over the years, and his forward recounts his brief experience of homelessness at age 17. The sign collection was photographed by Ford and is juxtaposed with portraits of the homeless that were shot by O'Brien. Here is a sampling of the signs, which show an array of handwriting that when seen together is quite spectacular and awesome.