Monday, January 13, 2014

Letters from 2013

Unblogged signage and assorted typographic encounters from the last year. (Still trying to wrap up 2013.)

Spelling debacle on the contents page of Bloomberg Businessweek.

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I stood in awe before these sample alphabets by an early 20th Century sign painter, offered by Ricco Maresca at last year's Metro Show. This year's show  is in a couple of weeks. Here's another grid of alphabets from the same series.


Vintage record carrier


Papel picado with the names of the bride and groom festooned the pre-wedding fiesta, just north of the border.


The Elkhorn Saloon's claim to fame is that it is the second-longest operating bar in California. The humble, historic watering hole has been serving drinks in San Miguel continuously since 1853.


A visit to the Hell's Kitchen Flea Market on 39th St., followed by
one to the Cupcake Cafe.



I must visit Baltimore again when it's not blistering hot.


Colonoscopy humor? This evacuation-route map was posted in my gastroenterologist's office.


Works by Christopher Wool at the Guggenheim. Show closes January 22nd.


Driving through Maine





Cornell in early June. Ithaca was at its finest--rainy and lush. New, since my college days, are the safety nets now flanking bridges that cross the gorges.



On Thanksgiving morning, the clowns meet up at 81st St. and Central Park West to "Join the Parade!"


Instead of apologizing for in-store construction with "Pardon our appearance," Bergdorf Goodman tunes into their customer base with "We're Having a Little Work Done …"


The Magritte show at MoMA, which just closed, was filled with the surrealist's enigmatic use of words, carefully lettered. MoMA senior designer, Sabine Dowek, describes how she arrived at her design for the wall lettering here


EAT (top): Farnsworth Museum, Rockport, Maine

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