Palimpsest
As part of my ongoing collection of faded, broken, and disinherited lettering, I snapped this sign outside one of the Microsoft buildings that once belonged to a different company; you can see the...
View ArticleLimbic artifice
One of my favorite local shop-front signs (on Capitol Hill in Seattle) – not just for its contrast between the two typefaces used, but for the contrast between the pretty-looking type of the second...
View ArticleUnfortunate signage
The street signs in the town of Alcoa, Tenn., which I found myself driving through a couple of weeks ago, have this unusual choice of typeface. It looks like Impact, though a bit straighter and...
View ArticleHong Kong images
After an absurdly long delay, I have finally put some of my photos from last October’s ATypI Hong Kong up on Flickr: here. Although I didn’t take a lot of snapshots, there are few images there that...
View ArticleBack on the wall
It’s gratifying to see, from a story on the TDC’s website, that the three-dimensional typographic mural that Lou Dorfsman constructed in 1966 for the cafeteria at CBS headquarters in New York City has...
View ArticleMassimo Vignelli & organizing information
When Massimo Vignelli died last month, the obituaries and remembrances all mentioned his famous 1972 map of the New York City subway system. The New York Times, of course, spent a good deal of ink and...
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An ironic typeface used for a non-ironic purpose
’Twas the eighteenth of April of Twenty-fourteen…” Yes, it was, actually and literally. That’s when I snapped this picture of the sign at the edge of the Calvary Cemetery, overlooking University...
View ArticleEyemag
I just got the latest issue of Dennis Letbetter’s Eyemag, his more or less quarterly series of magazine-size books that showcase different aspects of his long and notable career as a photographer. (I’m...
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Return to Martha’s Vineyard
In May, I had a chance to revisit my childhood home – on a business trip. Although I was born and raised in Bronxville, New York, a close-in suburb of New York City, my family spent all of our summers...
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Watch out for falling rockstars
It’s been a while since I posted a photo of shop-front lettering that’s been removed. I always find such artifacts fascinating. This one is from last September, in Paris, in the 7th arrondissement....
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