Thursday, April 28, 2005

Loyola Typographic Signage Project

This is one of my very favorite sign gallery sites. It's really great to see the dense diversity in signage that comes from many different cultures living and working in the same geographic area for a long time.

Typographic Signage Project:
An Idiosyncratic Survey of the Signs in the Chicago metropolitan area.



Nicole Ferentz and Amelia Luckett, of the Loyola University Chicago Dept. of Visual Communications.

Saturday, April 23, 2005

Uncommon Goods

So, today I received a catalog in the mail from UncommonGoods. I was happy to see more recycled sign products, specifically
reflective cuffs. Designed and hand-made by Stephen Hartzler to help cyclists ride more safely at night. Available in stop sign red and street sign green.





Also on their site but not in their catalog, the "Don't Walk Chair"
from John Carter.
and a street sign chair from Borris Bally, whose work, I actually had the pleasure of seeing in real life a few years ago here in San francisco.

Previous: Furniture from Recycled Signs

Tuesday, April 19, 2005

i'm rewritin' it

Score one point for slogan correction.
Here's one from The Sneeze


via Violet

Monday, April 18, 2005

found type gallery


Great photos of great typography. This comes from an Italian blog called:
To Drown A Rose. It does offer some English translation, and quite few other interesting entries. I like Friday Cat Blogging myself.

Sunday, April 17, 2005

Road Sign Math

For long boring road trips, this game/website might help pass the time

Warning: this gets pretty geeky.