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So I’ve become obsessive about signs and signals! They’re here to help us so why aren’t we all obsessive about them? Why aren’t there more books about them so we can study them at home? Hang on…Warning by Nicole Recchia and published by Mark Batty is a newly published book that’s about to save your life! Well they might do, they may also make you laugh or make you look at them with a bemused and confused expression on your face! So here’s a collection of warning labels, bold and high contrast images of machinery, cogs, blades, boxes, vehicles & toilets! Oh, no incident is complete without a victim. These poor little stick men, bruised, battered, cut, crushed…I wonder if they have a union…probably not or signs like these, and books like Warning I guess, would never be made.
 

Warning labels are there to eliminate the risk of us coming to any harm, at least to minimise the risk, so why are they so abstract and confusing sometimes? To minimise the confusion these warning labels are neatly laid out into sections. Death and disaster by: Electrocution, Falling Objects, Blades, Fire, Crushing, Falling and The Truly Bizarre. You can work out what many of the warnings are trying to tell you not to avoid but this last chapter? Jeez, anything could happen with signs like these! For example, if I had to give a name to some of these images they would be something like - “Head-butting businessmen ahead” and “Don’t feed the wheelchair bound to the alligators!” I guess you’ll have to take a look at the book to see their accompanying images but when you see them you’ll know which ones they are! Just like the Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, Warning also has a useful hint on its front cover, “Failure to buy this book could result in death or serious injury” and I guess it may just be true! It weighs in at 128 pages and is 6 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches case bound. Buy a copy direct from Mark Batty or from the normal places like AmazonUK and Amazon US.