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Battery Tech    (2006.10.05)

This is my third full shoot of this hard-to-photograph sign-cum–folk sculpture. I hereby give up.

City Web page on streetsigns    (2006.10.03)

The City of Toronto has a page up on the proposed streetsigns

Mono Lino Typesetting    (2006.10.03)

It turns out I had photographed this disused and threatened industrial monolith on Dupont, albeit not very well.

I am daunted by the prospect of having to write a full history of this place, which I called on the telephone as a teenager. I could hear a lot of industrial sounds in the background as I asked the woman (yes) for as many specimen books as they could possibly airlift to New Brunswick.

(Then later I shot the place with a better camera.)

Guy in bowels of tour bus    (2006.10.01)

Encroaching ceiling insulation    (2006.09.30)

If you don’t want to take my word for it    (2006.09.29)

Myths about Canadian English, and why your B.A. in English lit does not set you up to do captioning

Beach BIA banner    (2006.09.29)

Yeah, so this is the kind of pole banner the street-furniture committee didn’t know about.

It also represents the chosen typography of the Beach BIA (né Beaches BIA), Dax. Certainly such typography is not trendy and will in no way clash with existing and future streetsigns and street furniture.

And by the way, why not Barmeno instead?

Confidential to Jeremy Kramer    (2006.09.29)

Notes from an argument I had with Toronto streetsign designer Jeremy Kramer

Notes from Toronto streetsign introduction    (2006.09.27)

Notes from public meeting on proposed new Toronto streetsign designs, Metro Hall, 2006.09.26