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- What are you listening to?
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... Voice of America and 1974-76 ) Velvet Underground Organisation ( Tone Float is the only album I know to ... from another Brixton band. Kiss100.. kisstory BBC London Live 8 Mile sountrack Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. the Osmonds ...
Forum topic - Joe Pemberton - 5 Sep 2007 - 9:54pm - 712 comments - 0 attachments
- pictograms as a part of our languages?
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... interpretations when I first saw a "Way Out" sign in the London Underground: my first thought was that it pointed the way to an exhibit of ...
Forum topic - thierry blancpain - 5 Jul 2005 - 2:27am - 30 comments - 0 attachments
- Akzidenz-Grotesk (Re-)Release Dates
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... but rather Breite Grotesque. The specimen is in St Bride, London. Probably this is the direct predecessor of Royal-Grotesk and of ... in roman letters? I can't think of any except Johnson's Underground, Gill's Solus, Lutetia and Romulus, Kennerley, Electra, Scala, and ...
Forum topic - gabrielhl - 31 Jan 2006 - 5:10pm - 71 comments - 0 attachments
- Finding your way on the MTA (NYC subway)
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... yes the Vignelli map is cool, and yes it works in London...But London is an easier city to navigate (as a pedestrian) than New ... from the article it amazes me why people pine for an underground/subway map to be geographically correct. As a rule (and one with a ...
Forum topic - Linda Cunningham - 26 Apr 2007 - 4:02pm - 59 comments - 0 attachments
- Great British Design Quest
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... has been nominated in this competition organized by London's Design Museum. ... about Gill Sans? The >What about Gill Sans? The London Underground map is also a contender - although it's Johnston not Gill, the ...
Forum topic - Sii Daniels - 30 Jan 2006 - 1:11pm - 75 comments - 0 attachments
- Eric Gill
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... in 1902, at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London by type-designer and calligrapher Edward Johnston (designer of Johnston Sans for the London Underground). Gill is very well known for his work as a type-designer, and ...
Wiki - Richard Hards - 25 Oct 2008 - 12:33pm - 0 comments
- Typography t-shirts
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... Spiekermann agreed with me when he gave a talk here in london last week. lighten up :o) Dear Mr Baskerville, you Dear Mr ... Spiekermann agreed with me when he gave a talk here in london last week. If you can convince him to wear the shirt then you might ... Also, Isn't "Mind The Gap" in reference to the London Underground? :P It could be It could be type? ...
Forum topic - Baskerville - 4 Apr 2006 - 8:01am - 144 comments - 0 attachments
- Corporate initiated typeface designs
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... branding font - Brody or Dalton Maag, someone in London? (edit - it was actrually by Font Bureau) Miles Newlyn - various ... Edward Johnston for London Edward Johnston for London Underground As a side note, what are the earliest instances of corporate ...
Forum topic - Martin LAllier - 29 Jul 2006 - 9:44am - 56 comments - 0 attachments
- Geometric Sans, c. 1500?
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... not. But even as a mistake, what is he mistaking? Not the underground type—that showed up in 1916, the book is dated 1914. I’m going ... in Google’s collection, so perhaps the author was in London (Where the book was published) and was inspired by whatever inspired ...
Forum topic - Dunwich Type - 12 Jun 2007 - 7:43pm - 11 comments - 0 attachments
- Experimental type info
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... of self Futurist movement Edward Johnston, The London Underground, 1918, English Fillippo Marinetti, The Words of Freedom, ...
Forum topic - hodge - 9 Oct 2003 - 9:02am - 64 comments - 0 attachments
