University of the Arts faculty member Joel Katz, Adjunct Professor in the Graphic Design department, and students in his "Visualizing Information" class were featured in the August 2010 issue of Philadelphia Magazine for designing the Philadelphia Parking Authority's new parking kiosk signage. Katz's assignment: find and correct an example of ineffective design in Philadelphia. Three enterprising students jumped on the PPA's new and decidedly confusing parking kiosks, which had replaced the city's meters. Katz shared their much easier-to-understand prototypes with the PPA (right), resulting in the Parking Authority gradually replacing more than 1,100 of the old, confusing signs with the new student-designed signs. And, of course, the students got A's on the project.