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Archive for category: Signage

   (2006.09.29)

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

Blue banner reads TheBeach continuously in diagonal type across the main face and www.BeachBIA.com at bottom

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?

   (2006.09.25)
Sign over awning reads Cirone’s (in cursive italic) Fine Foods (in script)
   (2006.09.22)

A difficult-to-photograph sign. May have to wait till the vanishingly brief period of no leaves on trees but adequate light and no snow.

Black sign over red door on brick building reads China Lily LEE’S FOOD PRODUCTS LTD.
   (2006.09.21)

To use the vulgate. Would this not be textura ice cream?

Sign reads Neilson’s in blackletter type and Famous ice cream in Futura

(Is blackletter ice cream like liquorice ice cream?)

   (2006.08.28)

The green/white/red of the Italian flag, the word “caffé” written thus, and the use of Irish uncial type – all on the same sign.

Sign reads Caffé Latte Gelateria & Spuntini Italian Bar

The only thing missing is German “gothic” type, or maybe Comic Sans.

   (2006.08.25)

I am methodically reading every remotely plausible book on graphic design and typography that can be borrowed from the Toronto Public Library, the world’s largest such system, with 99 branches. (If you recently went looking for the only circulating copies of Eye, I’m the one who snagged them.) I am, further, ordering everything under the sun from other libraries via interlibrary loan, which fails about four-fifths of the time but is still worth a go.

Recently, I read the three classic treatises on words/lettering in/on/& buildings/architecture (for their titles are merely permutations of those words and you could generate your own): (more…)

   (2006.08.25)
Metal script letters on a brick wall read Butler’s
   (2006.08.24)
Hand-painted sign: It’s TUNE-UP TIME FOR VACUUM CLEANERS & LAWN MOWERS
   (2006.08.23)
White sign projecting from building reads Butler’s in script and REPAIR SERVICE Parts Radio/TV Appliances ALL MAKES in Helvetica

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