Found Type Friday #22

So a couple of weeks ago I took our boys (4 and nearly 2) to W5 which is our local science/discovery centre thing. I expect most major cities have one now. Ours is inside a leasure complex right on the water's edge which means you get great views of the currently delapidated/soon to be redeveloped harbour area (or Titanic Quarter as it's going to be called).

W5 is actually really good with some very nicely designed things to pull, push, twiddle, build, knock down, press, listen to and generally muck about with. The boys love it. Trouble is, it's a bit like being in Groundhog Day. After a while you can feel trapped in an endless cycle of play with this, play with that, play with them, then back to the start again. We got there just after 10 in the morning and started the process of leaving around 2 in the afternoon. Finally actually leaving at closing time: 5.30pm.

Still, at least we got our money's worth and they had a ball.

But in need of post-W5 therapy I coersed the boys into a little early evening font spotting (I'm trying to indoctrinate them). And they were brilliant, pointing out a sign here, a sign there, as we toured the Harbour area. I'm very happy to say they seemed to really enjoy it.

The highlight was the Training Centre sign. I so wanted to pull it down and make off with it but decided that would actually be a bad example for the kids. And security down there is pretty tight.

I have a notion to track down all the pumping stations. Might make a good Flickr set, which reminds me, there's a little bit more of this stuff there.

It's a really interesting area, a stone's throw from our studio which also (just about) looks over the water. As someone who moved here from the mainland's most land-locked county, Leicestershire, being about to see the sea from my desk and watch the ships coming in and going out, is just brilliant.

Any and all contributions to FTF gladly accepted here.

Comments

[Ben]

Lovely.

(You should have pulled it off, then you could have taught the kids the "don't tell Mummy" game at the same time!)

[Steve Pepple]

I really appreciate the idea of found typefaces. I collect found writing and lists, but I'd never thought much about scavenging for fonts.

[Anne t.]

Great Idea.
Found type as a visual diary.