Better late than never: here's this week's stuff...
Alicia went on a font finding trip around Wapping:
This is what she says about her findings:
"[No Licence] This one made me smile because of the odd use of full stops and strange stenciled type. [Lowder]...some metal letters on the side of a housing estate. Made me think of lederhosen, and seemed quite charming in it's rusty, bent way. [21] I smiled when I saw the economy of these signs; I bet whoever thought of that was pretty proud of themselves. [nacap] I'm not sure if this is supposed to be an 'H' or not. It's part of some of that temporary fencing put around roadworks, though there weren't any around, so it was just leaning there, all by itself."
Meanwhile Andy in New York sent in these matchbooks, he says, "my favs are of course the 'You're no match...for V.D.'...LOVE the chicken matchsticks."
Many thanks to Alicia and Andy for going to the trouble.
All contributions gratefully embraced here.
Thanks for posting the photos, though you cropped the 2nd '21' off, so my explantation doesn't make too much sense!
Posted by: Alicia | 01 May 2007 at 09:25 PM
Whoops! Sorry Alicia. Consider my cropping hand well and truly slapped. Although, personally, I think your expanation still works - I've just added an air of mystery to it by making it sound like there are more 21s, somehwere...
Hope your project's going OK.
Posted by: Richard | 01 May 2007 at 11:25 PM
Mystery is good.
It is! I left a Helvetica 'a' that I'd made out of salt dough in the toilets of the Tate Britain with a note attached, and a lady emailed me saying she had found it and loved it.
By next week I should have a blog to track the letters I leave, with information about typography, and hopefully a link to Ace Jet 170.
Posted by: Alicia | 03 May 2007 at 01:47 PM