16 Mar 2016
36 Porto Signs
It’s been a while since I’ve posted, largely due to work on the book taking over for the last six months or so. Following a week in Amsterdam with Better Letters I enjoyed a long weekend in Porto, Portugal. Here is a slide show of some of the signs (‘ghost’ and otherwise) that I found there. This is the first in what will be a series of posts from locations around the world, and closer to home in the UK…
PS. After posting this to Facebook, I had a comment with a link to this great Tumblr with even more pieces of signage and lettering from Porto.
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