London
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Design agency OPX launches London Typographica
This site [Link expired] from OPX is aiming to build a map of lettering forms of all sorts from across the capital. These include chisselled stone, hand painted signs, plaques, shop fronts, in fact just about anything that has letters and can be seen at street level in London. It’s a bit of a lottery […]
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Sebastien Ardouin discovers another RIP in Sheen Lane, Richmond
Another one bites the dust here.
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Signs and more in Dickens’ London
Picture: ‘Dickens’s Victorian London‘ by Alex Werner and Tony William Collection of 19th Century photography in London, some inadvertently capturing the advertising and signage of the age. Original photo here, book available here.
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Now you see me, now you don’t: London’s elusive shop signs
Nice article here about the brief reveal, and more extended cover up, of some of London’s beautiful hand painted shop signs. In some ways they are being preserved, but they could be equally be showcased. They represent the skills of signwiters such as the contemporary Peter Hardwicke. Jane also covered a closely related topic in her account […]
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Mid-20th Century photos of King’s Cross featuring some painted ads
This set of photos shows what King’s Cross was like 60 years ago with the odd painted ad caught inadvertently by what appears to have been a bus enthusiast. The one above features a shop sign for Freeman, Hardy & Willis, and there’s this one too. The full set here.
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Record Breaking Roofad
I’ve been sitting on this for such a long time that I almost completely forgot about it. In fact, Mark sent me details of it back in June 2009 so hands up for my complete slackness on that front! It is another example of a ‘roofad‘ but one with significant exposure, being situated on top of […]