More type from Palm Beach, Florida coming soon. These hand painted murals and signs were along Broadway in West Palm.
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CLOCKS
Thursday, March 1, 2012
More New York clocks here. Only 12 more hours to donate to Vernacular Typography on Kickstarter!
MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY TYPOGRAPHY
Monday, January 23, 2012
Some beautiful typography from inside the New York State Environment Hall at the Museum of Natural History. The exhibit opened in 1951 and doesn’t look like it’s been touched since then. It analyzes the geological history of a 40 square mile area of Dutchess County. I emailed the Museum’s librarian to find out more about the [...]
MANHOLE COVERS OF WILLOW STREET
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
The four block stretch of Willow Street from Pierrepont to Cranberry in Brooklyn Heights has over 50 different manhole and chute covers. Most of the examples below are coal chutes rather than manhole covers, used for the delivery of coal from a truck to the basement furnaces in brownstones. Whereas manholes are usually found in the [...]
ROME PREVIEW
Monday, December 5, 2011
Here are a few of my favorite shots from Rome (240 more soon to be added to VernacularTypography.com):
TYPO 45
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
An article I wrote about ghost signs around Brooklyn and Manhattan is the cover story in the new issue of TYPO Magazine. TYPO is a quarterly bilingual English-Czech design magazine devoted to the study of typography in context with other disciplines like architecture, urban design, photography, philosophy, and sociology. You can order a hard copy [...]
FLORENCE PREVIEW
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Over 500 new photos from Rome, Florence, and Vatican City will soon be added to VernacularTypography.com. Here are a few of my favorites from Florence…
YIKES
Friday, March 4, 2011
What a terrible juxtaposition. The Slave Theater, 1215 Fulton Street, Brooklyn.