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Archive for July 2005

   (2005.07.12)

I want to know more about uncial type. I believe Michael Everson could tell me a lot about it, yet I fear him.

Blue book is entitled ‘Marks & Monograms on Pottery & Porcelain’ in commoncase uncial type
   (2005.07.12)

Yet more blackletter.

Overlaid white, red, black, and teal blackletter type on a yellow background reads Group of Seven Deadly Sins

Someday if I buy a scanner I can show you some samples from this ancient Dutch book I have, which Matthew Carter found interesting for a few seconds.

   (2005.07.12)
Doorway is flanked by torches and the number 59. Above the doorway sits a banner reading Fiftynine in Belwe Condensed
   (2005.07.12)

Nobody else bothered to look up Bloomberg’s official proclamation of Type Week in New York, so I did

   (2005.07.11)

A complex and outstanding example of three-dimensional type and natural building materials that is difficult to photograph.

Granite plinth over glass-brick doorway reads SILVERMAN BUILDING in engraved letters. Sign on the front wall shows a Vetruvian Man illustration and THE HINCKS-DELLORES CENTRE in raised type
   (2005.07.11)

Who knew there was so much of interest in the topography of the ancient Lande Rovère?

Side window, roof rack, and elliptical porthole window in roof of Land Rover
Black-and-silver badge reads LAND ROVER in Silver, with a Z-like line through the two words
   (2005.07.11)
Next to a crosswalk post, a POST NO BILLS sign barely pokes through the hoardings’ bright-green paint
   (2005.07.10)

Yes, that was a giant bronze statue of an owl found in a BACK OF TRUCK.

Then of course they had to install it.

Workman on ladder leaning against retaining wall talks to other man

And now they’ll have to shut the branch down for a full day to pour additional reinforcing concrete.

Black-coloured bronze statue of owl, with four-foot wingspan, sits on rear edge of retaining wall

I joshed with the grizzled, chain-smoking sculptor that we needed a matching statue of the owl’s prey. A couple of rats, he said. No, I countered, a bunny.

   (2005.07.10)

Actually, it was a 928.

Blue Porsche 928

The lay-back (“slantnose”) headlamps were the dead giveaway – though I did photograph them ambiguously and Porsche had annoyingly diluted the design trope through reuse in 968s and a few other models I can’t track down.

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