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HELVETICA

April 7, 2007 Design
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Helvetica premiered at SXSW and is selling out wherever it plays; it’s also receiving rave reviews.

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Now that’s what I call public lettering

January 20, 2006 Uncategorized
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“44 activists from the Greenpeace ships Esperanza and Arctic Sunrise appeal for help in their campaign to end whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale sanctuary, by spelling out the words `Help End Whaling!’ using their bodies. After spending a month battling to defend whales from the grenade tipped harpoons of the whaling fleet, the international [...]

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Full Circle

October 11, 2005 Blog
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Public lettering is a term that is increasingly used to describe the totality of visible letterforms that surround us: on street signs, storefronts, monuments, drain covers, bus tickets, etc. Public lettering predates the development of graphic design and of typography before that.

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What a difference a year makes.

July 11, 2005 Blog
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It’s almost a year to the day since we last joined our friends for a trip to Lake Champlain. This time around we even stopped at the same gas station – which led me to take a snap of this motel sign across the road once more (top: 2004; bottom: 2005). It’s definitely the same [...]

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Chicago! Chicago?

May 25, 2005 Blog
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There’s a scene early on in the movie Meet the Fockers where Ben Stiller and his bride-to-be fly off to see her parents. The establishing shot (above) cleverly reminds us exactly which city they’re leaving. Which brings us to the big, helpful sign: first, it was clearly comped in during post-production; and, second, it’s typeset [...]

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Deadwood in Ontario…

March 28, 2005 Blog
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I wrote a while back about a sign on Highway 401 that had a peculiar mistake in it – one letter had been mounted backwards. Which brings us to the HBO series Deadwood. Focusing on the premise that life was short – and largely unpleasant – in the new frontier towns of nineteenth century America, [...]

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