Faintly Evil Signs at Whole Foods

Published on Monday, January 31, 2011, by James Norton / Edit Post

Behold: the finest Whole Foods signage that you've ever seen, which may well rank among the finest signage that you've ever seen in your life, period.

Austin-based artist Paul Maybury (whose non–Whole Foods credits include comics for Marvel and Dark Horse and the excellent Internet strip Party Bear) has posted a bunch of photos on his tumblr blog of the mind-blowing in-store signs he made for Whole Foods, including but not limited to creepy grandmas (pictured), belligerent Mr. T's (is there any other kind?), cupcake-vending Lenins, amazing-looking pig-leprechauns, lime-hawking Frida Kahlos, and specials-dispensing Andy Warhols.

Naturally, the (vaguely) controversial nature of the signs led to him, as he tells it, being pushed out of the company.

Image source: paulmaybury.tumblr.com

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  • http://notesladykier.tumblr.com/photo/1280/3318011272/1/tumblr_lgoqcz6iln1qaq9l3

    They're gonna win.

  • rthe sign you won't see at Whole Foods:

    We will continue to sell Horizon dairy products even though they will be produced from cows feed GMO alfalfa. We essentially made a deal with Monsanto to not oppose GMO alfalfa.

  • Is it just me, or does the Granny Smith sign seem like those stems might actually be the visible portion of granny flipping us off from within her apple-fort?

  • Yeah, the man is definitely not whining. He's presenting his work and talking about the circumstances that surrounded it -- events that can and obviously did influence what he was creating.

  • ThxanGert, The artist is now whining. If you look at the images where he posted them, it reads (at least to me) as if he is documenting some early work with a sense of humor about where it took place and how it was received. I don't get the sense he is complaining, really, or regrets having left the job. And it is really fun work.

  • I came here expecting something along the same lines, Andytee. To the artist: Stop whining! The signage pictures are awesome, and I somehow doubt anyone with that much talent will be out of work for long.

  • These signs are awesome, but if you want to have a headline combining Whole Foods and Evil, their recent complicity regarding organic standards and GMO's comes to mind.