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June 4, 2020
Signs from today’s George Floyd memorial in Cadman Plaza Park, Brooklyn.
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Signs of the Coronavirus in New York
Some signs, headlines, and notices posted about the coronavirus in the (sparsely populated) streets of New York.
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Nearly Empty Streets of New York
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Nearly Empty Streets of New York
Some photos from the past few days in the nearly empty streets of New York (taken while standing an appropriate distance away from anybody else). New York is filled with public spaces that have all essentially turned private.
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Signs of the Coronavirus in New York
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Signs of Protest & Empowerment
A few of the thousands and thousands of signs from Saturday’s Women’s March in New York. I have never seen so many signs or people in one place.
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VERNACULAR TYPOGRAPHY AT USAGI NY
In October 2015, UsagiNY will present the first exhibition of Vernacular Typography. Found lettering and other forms of urban communication have a way of creating and preserving a sense of place and local identity. Vernacular Typography is a celebration of the symbols and icons that surround us every day–the texture of a city that often goes overlooked or ignored. Usagi NY is a new 2,800 sq ft concept store in DUMBO Brooklyn, which houses a gallery, cafe, and library. Offering a marketplace for creators, the shop opens its doors to creative practitioners working in the differ- ent fields, presenting the work and process of emerging, influential creative thinkers and specialists such as artists, designers, architects,…
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VERNACULAR MEATOGRAPHY
Vegetarians, avert your gaze. Fewer things go better together than meat and whatever is next to meat. In the open dining rooms of many a Texas meatery, that companion to meat just so happens to be typography (printed, painted, scrawled, drawn, lettered, what have you). The signs of these establishments are honest and direct. In all shapes, styles, and formats (and sometimes obscured by decades of smokey oak) they unequivocally point the way to meat. What follows is a pictorial survey of the meat and corresponding typography & lettering of some of the finest BBQ I have ever known.
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2014 SIGNS, LETTERS, AND THINGS
Photos and things from January – December, 2014
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FAUX OLD TIMEY SIGNAGE
The streets of DUMBO turned into a Cold War-era film set via anachronistic signage for the filming of Steven Spielberg’s St. James Place.
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MONTRÉAL PREVIEW
A quick preview of lettering and vernacular typography in Montréal. Because of Quebec’s strict language laws, French is the dominant language on street signs and in commercial signage. Multi-lingual signs in Israel (here & here) and Ireland (here).
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NEW ORLEANS PREVIEW
An assorted sample of vernacular typography and lettering found recently in New Orleans. There’s no single dominant style of lettering, but rather a mix of everything (hand painted, hand scrawled, fading ghost ads–many layered over even older ghost signs, tile, neon, and about any other type of signage imaginable). The connecting thread seems to be the omnipresent plastic beaded necklaces twisted and dangling over most signs. Also, beignets. Follow @VernacularType
Letterforms in the Urban Environment
