Archive for category: Typography

More Museum mayhem    (2007.03.13)

Let’s Scotch-tape a sign on top of another sign, then beat that new sign to shit

It took less than a day    (2007.02.26)

…for the TTC to make its signage during the subway diversion even worse

Bay Lower    (2007.02.25)

THRILL-CAM ride through a disused subway station

Open question for Logo Cities    (2007.02.23)

They aren’t planning on doing something so rash as to charge speakers to attend, are they?

LazyWeb request: Evert Bloemsma    (2007.02.15)

Looking for help in locating information on the life and work of Evert Bloemsma, type designer

Nerves of steel    (2007.02.12)

Here I am at the Broadway stop of Vancouver’s SkyTrain, photographing an aberrant sign that uses Meta instead of the unaccountable and perplexing Plantin (also seen at Heathrow Airport, the obvious inspiration).

Just as I lifted my camera, four cops walked by, one of whom stared right at me, as seen here. I took my shot and, with nerves of steel, double-checked it on the LCD. I pocketed my camera and waited for the train.

Try this in Toronto and you get to endure a talking-to by Grandpa Moscoe.

‘Chasing the Perfect’    (2007.01.28)

Excerpts from Chasing the Perfect by Natalia Ilyin

It’s Write Stephen Merritt Lyrics with a Diacritic on Every Letter Day    (2007.01.18)

‘Ƭȟëřè åṝé ƫŵõ ķïńđš óƒ ƥèöṗḹȅ: (ã) Ṁÿ ľȭṽȩ ȃňḓ İ; (ḇ) Ṑȶḧḛṟ’

Saville fears for us in our mid-life    (2007.01.11)

‘I find it quite worrying meeting people in their mid-life who are still fascinated by, you know, typefaces and layout’