Featuring banners, placards, picket signs and flags from all sides of the political and social spectrum Signs of the Times is a typographic distillation of words, letters and symbols from over a century of protests, marches, strikes and rallies.

Once while admiring a trove of 60’s protest imagery, we began to ask ourselves; how would this message function if it were separated from the identity of the people and historical context present in the photograph? Is it possible to access the original ‘text’ by removing the context?