Pens, pencils, photos, postcards, notepads, and shirts are now being offered exclusively as premiums for (fully tax-deductible) contributions to Vernacular Typography through the project’s Fiscal Sponsor, ARTSPIRE (a Program of New York Foundation for the Arts). If you make a contribution and would like to receive any of the premiums, just make a note of [...]
In case you missed it the first time, Salon just posted the Q&A I did with Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York. Check it out HERE.
More New York clocks here. Only 12 more hours to donate to Vernacular Typography on Kickstarter!
Vernacular Typography is now on Kickstarter! Check out the video if you’re interested, and get some Vernacular Typography-related things if you donate. Thanks so much to the crazy-good Hayley Morris for her animating expertise. All photos by Vernacular Typography except for this one. Music from here. (Their video compression went a little crazy, so please [...]
Like most completely normal people, I save all of my theater ticket stubs. Here are a few: I am suitably embarrassed by most of those movie choices. If you’re interested in supporting Vernacular Typography, consider making a tax-dedictible donation to the project through Artspire & New York Foundation for the Arts HERE.
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 [...]
Materials for the Arts is an incredible reuse and recycle program in Long Island City. They receive and organize goods from a wide range of donors and maintain a warehouse where they redistribute everything to NYC Public Schools, non-profit arts organizations, community groups, and other worthy causes. They receive donations from the Department of Sanitation, [...]
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 [...]