Typophile - City identities - Comments

Thanx guys! Anyone knows if

mr_ampersand — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 02:19:41 -0800

Thanx guys!
Anyone knows if there exists something like a book with an overview of the european capitals and their identities? Could be nice, i think...

The city council in

marcox — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 22:25:37 -0800

The city council in Sheffield (UK) recently commissioned their own custom typeface. Details in the latest issue of Eye. Excerpt here:

http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature.php?id=126&fid=554

Andrew Haig discusses the

Geoff Riding — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:20:23 -0800

Andrew Haig discusses the use of ! exclamation marks in branding cities. It’s an interesting read.

The Destination !mark http://www.oneplusoneequalsthree.com/2006/01/thats_ncredible.html#more

I currently reside in Melbourne, or Me!bourne in that case! It appears to be set in Ole Schäfer and Erik Spiekermann’s FF Info Text. I think it’s a good choice.

However, recently, I have seen the exclamation mark disappear from some branding campaigns!

Lord forbid The Big Apple,

Dan Weaver — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:54:36 -0800

Lord forbid The Big Apple, oops New York City didn’t have an idenity or the state of New York. I Heart New York.

here’s a design firm here

istitch — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 11:35:43 -0800

here’s a design firm here in san diego that specializes in urban branding:
Bennett Peji Design

you have to click around a bit but this firm is working on a project called the Philipino Village. very interesting, if this is the kind of thing you’re looking for info about.

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1. Transit system signage 2.

Nick Shinn — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 11:27:59 -0800

1. Transit system signage
2. Newspaper fonts
3. Street name signs
4. Architectural signs

For Toronto, I can visualize these all, and they provide the typographic personality of the city.

www.atrissi.com click on

alya — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:31:04 -0800

www.atrissi.com
click on identities. Tarek designed the identity of Quatar in both arabic and english combined. Might be interesting to look at.

More on Amsterdam at The

Stephen Coles — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:41:38 -0800

Hi, You’ll find a lot of

picou — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:19:20 -0800

Hi,
You’ll find a lot of corporate ID informations there:
http://users.ncrvnet.nl/mstol/56.htm

Koen, You may also find this

dezcom — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:04:13 -0800

Koen,
You may also find this previous Typophile thread on type and the city of interest to you:

http://typophile.com/node/15005

ChrisL

Amsterdam uses Adrian

dan_reynolds — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:56:59 -0800

Amsterdam uses Adrian Frutiger’s Avenir (from Linotype) for their identity work.

Milan uses a custom typeface derived from Linotype Gianotten. An article about that project is in the current issue of the Linotype Matrix.

hi mr_ampersand, Take a look

David Lawless — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:38:35 -0800

hi mr_ampersand,

Take a look at Studio Dumbar’s identity for Rotterdam. You can find it at

http://www.studiodumbar.com/site/main.html

Click on ’Project’s and then ’Visual Identity’.

There’s also a fact sheet you can download.

Good Luck!

Tokyodrifter

City identities

mr_ampersand — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:29:43 -0800

Hey you all,

I’m looking for some information about the graphical identity of big cities but it seems harder to find than i thought.
With graphical identity of a city i mean: their logo and the different applications (even a slogan?)
I really can’t believe there’s nothing to find on this topic!
who can help me out?