A professor in design school once ranted about the human figures depicted in signs. Why make such rudimentary drawings, with circles for heads for God's sake, when there are so many art students graduating each year? Can't they just hire one to draw them a more realistic person for their sign? Many images are simplified yet still elegant, while some are unnecessarily simple and become ridiculous. Sometimes a figure can be quite expressive, and a certain amount of detail helps. I found the man in the above picture on a sign in Spain with a lightening bolt shooting out of his chest, or into it. It was a warning about the possibility of electrocution, but I have taken the figure and the bolt of electricity and used them for several small projects. Here is one that recycles the Spaniard dressed in his suit and nice shoes (they all wear nice shoes), and a car image in a new context.
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