Signs in the Wild

600 signs. Schools, hospitals, restaurants, fences, telephone poles. Here's where the experiment lives.

A HAPPINESS sign on a white picket fence with tropical plants and a Florida home
Picket fence, St. Petersburg neighborhood
Gary King nailing a HAPPINESS sign to a utility pole
Gary nailing a sign to a pole
A Florida school bus with a HAPPINESS sign
Pinellas County school bus
Close-up of a HAPPINESS sign screwed to a white picket fence, showing the gold-outlined red lettering and the heart replacing the i-dot
Detail: gold-outlined lettering
Waffle House workers wearing HAPPINESS signs on their uniforms
Waffle House crew, St. Petersburg
Gary King at an outdoor market with a FREE HAPPINESS sign
Saturday market outreach
Gary King at an event table with a community member, surrounded by HAPPINESS signs and books
Community event table
Gary King on a boat at sunset with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge spanning the horizon behind him
Tampa Bay at sunset
A red HAPPINESS sign nailed to a raw telephone pole against a blue Florida sky
One sign, one pole, one sky

"I've always taken the Happiness Signs around St. Pete as a good luck token. When I'm having a bad day, I don't even have to go out of my way usually to find one, I just look up around me and there they are."

Karina Grajcarek, St. Petersburg resident · The Crow's Nest

Press Coverage

FOX 13 Tampa
"If there was a time for happiness, it's now:" Happiness Experiment changes lives through signs
Walter Allen, FOX 13
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The Crow's Nest (USFSP)
St. Pete "Happiness" man Gary King experiments with joyfulness every day
The Crow's Nest, January 2023
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Tampa Bay Times
Front page feature: Gary King and the Happiness Experiment
Tampa Bay Times, November 2020
St. Pete Life Magazine
The Happiness Experiment
St. Pete Life Magazine

Video

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