Archive for category: Signage

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?

Script or italic?    (2006.09.25)

China Lily    (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.

Gothic ice cream    (2006.09.21)

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

(Is blackletter ice cream like liquorice ice cream?)

Surely the best sign in the city    (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.

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

Words/Lettering in/on/& Buildings/Architecture    (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…)

Butler’s Week (3)    (2006.08.25)

Butler’s Week (2)    (2006.08.24)

Butler’s Week (1)    (2006.08.23)