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Found Type Friday #56

Shawn's in Chicago and has an ongoing found type project...er...ongoing. So far, he's got lots. Here's just some:

 

 

 

Superb! Many thanks Shawn!

If you've got it, send it.

Found Type Friday #55

Loïc's been listening to his favourite font-frenzied juju music:

 

But for me, it's this superb cover for War, that he found, that's my favourite. Check out the "clansman" in the queue!

Meanwhile, Stephanie spotted this worrying ghost sign in a Haitian Hospital:

And, Jill spotted some sinister stay-off-the-moors hand-daubed type:

Thanks Loïc and Stephanie and Jill!

Stuff are you having? Here it send.

Found Type Friday #54

Car crash type and numerous bits of interestingness this week. 

Firstly, from new visitee Finn:

 

 

 

Regular and railway station loiterer Loïc:

 

 

And BB/Saunders designer James:

 

 

 

All superb (and I am really very grateful to Finn, Loïc and James for taking the trouble to send stuff) but this week's prize* has to go to James for exceptional specimens.

Have stuff? Send here.

* Actually, there is not prize but the joy of giving.

Found Type Friday #53

Ugly but interesting (I think), desktop patterns like they used to be...

Big files available on Flickr.

Have stuff? Send here.

Found Type Friday #52

This should have been special Found(ry) Type Friday. Freda Sack was in town last night to deliver an illustrated talk at Ulster University as part of the Ulster Art and Design Festival. Only problem was the talk started at 5.30pm. A bit of a ridiculous time really, I wasn't sure I could make it then an eReminder came in during the day; listing the talk at the more convenient time of 6.30pm. Brilliant!

So off I trot. Got to UU for 6pm. Great! Half an hour for a quick shufty around the End of Year Show then in for Sack. Back at the lecture theatre just before 6.30 and still no one waiting? A sneaky peak through the door told me I'd fucked up. Arse!

I slipped in anyway and got the last few excellent minutes before question time. Or should I say, "Neil's Question Time". Always good, Neil is always (always!) first and, often, alone. You know what it's like; question times throughout the land are filled with embarrassing silence and it would be the same in Belfast, if it wasn't for Neil.

Anyway, Chris said the talk was good and even in the last minutes I was surprised to see what Sack had done (like drawing the Swiss International Air Lines logo and the typeface for our Yellow Pages) only really knowing The Foundry. Wish I could tell you more.

 
Well never mind. It's still special. Anne found this little book in her favourite bookshop. I've yet to read the wisdom within but a flick through reveals much interestingness (check out those adding machines – where have all those adding machines gone?)...

  
  

...including David Kindersley's street nameplate redesign for Cambridge.

Thanks Anne. You saved the day.

All contributions welcome.

Found Type Friday #51

David Warwick's been to the circus to watch the monkey wrestling*. While he was there, he took these superb shots, "...an ancient tarpaulin on one of the trucks at the Bobby Roberts Super Circus, which was in Stoke Newington the other day. Part of the paint was coming away so you could see the original type beneath and some animal rights protestors had sprayed 'ban animal circuses' over the top..."

 

David's got lots of great stuff on Flickr, like this that makes a very sound point I think, this is brilliant and this, well...

Special thanks to David then. In fact, let's all give him three cheers...

Got stuff? Send it here.

* No monkeys are wrestled at Bobby's Circus.

Found Type Friday #50

Charlie Chambers has sent me these amazing images. To put them into context, he say, "I am currently making a short film about Maritime Pilots and so have been around lots of big ships. I have become interested by all the painted markings on the side of the boats..."

 

 

 

Brilliant. Thanks Charlie!

If you'd like to contribute, please send stuff here.

Found Type Friday #49

Look, it's the return of Found Type Friday! And about time too!

A superb bit of signage (from Loïc).

  

Emiliano sent me a link to the wonderful Bibliodyssey, specifically Peacays collection of printed ornaments (he's got lots more on Flickr).

Clinton's got more found type than you can shake a stick at.

 

Alisa found these excellent specimens in an antique shop in Prescott, Arizona, going for a song. It's taken me two months to get them online! (I blame it on the chickens).

 

 

And Michael at Kat Ran Press, in Cambridge Massachusetts, very kindly sent me lots of stuff (ages ago - sorry Michael).

That was great. Just like old times. 

Thanks very much to everyone for your contributions!

If anyone else would like to send me something then wait god knows how many months to see it again (can't blame you if you don't but I do promise to try harder) please send it to: foundtype@acejet170.com

Found Type Friday #48

Hey! Let's have an international found type bonanza!

First, Luz took a trip to New Orleans:

Charlie's been hanging around Bristol Docks and the canals of London:

Pedro's taken a few shots of this lovely sign in downtown Lisbon (Juvenal used to do a nice line in shirts and pullovers before they closed. I'm worried about what's to become of that sign now):

And Loïc, well...I don't know where Loïc's been but he's French and has an eye for a wierd book cover (this one's from 1965):

And all that means I'm up to date with FTF contributions (I think). If you've got any choice nuggets of type loveliness, feel free to send them here.

Big thank's go to Luz, Charlie, Pedro and Loïc.

Found Type Friday #47

No sooner had Yanek emailed me a link to his Stencil Flickr set than I'd swiped half of them for this weeks FTF. I haven't even asked him if that's OK. I'll do that next.

If you've got anything you'd like to contribute, send it here.

Actually, if you've sent anything and I haven't used it, my apologies - I will, just dead busy right now.