Originally filmed by the Swedish company, Svenska Biografteatern, on a trip to America, the footage has been speed corrected (slowed down), with sound added by videographer Guy Jones. Read more
The Literal World Map
Literal Translation of Country Names
Literal Translation of Country Names
Literal Translation of Country Names
Literal Translation of Country Names
Literal Translation of Country Names
Literal Translation of Country Names
Take a look at this interesting world map with the literal names of countries, commissioned by Credit Card Compare (which I think is something like NerdWallet). Or, if you’d rather a spreadsheet, more information can be found on this Google Sheet:
http://bit.ly/LiteralWorldMap
The Jungle Refugee Camp in Calais, by Banksy
The Jungle Refugee Camp in Calais
The Jungle Refugee Camp in Calais
The Jungle Refugee Camp in Calais
The Jungle Refugee Camp in Calais
The Jungle Refugee Camp in Calais
The Jungle Refugee Camp in Calais
The Jungle Refugee Camp in Calais
Based on an update to his website this morning it appears Banksy visited the Jungle Refugee Camp in Calais, France, one of the largest refugee camps in western Europe. The artist left behind four new artworks, most notably a piece featuring Steve Jobs carrying an early Macintosh computer and a sack over his shoulder noting his background as a “son of a migrant from Syria,” (Jobs was adopted, but his biological father was from Syria). In another piece he references Géricault’s famous Raft of Medusa painting, depicting an imperiled group of people on a sinking raft as they hail a modern cruise ship just on the horizon. The artist previously brought attention to the refuge crisis in a piece at Dismaland earlier this year.
(via Colossal)
Citarella Gothic Metal Signage
ParkFrancis, Jersey City
ParkFrancis, Jersey City
ParkFrancis, Jersey City
As designers and typographers, it’s always heart-warming to see our work in use. Spotting my font family, Citarella Gothic, always makes me happy. This Sunday, I had the added enjoyment of seeing two weights of the typeface created in metal for the Park Francis in Hamilton Park, Jersey City. As far as I can tell, the logo and signage was created by Chris Rudloff of New World Group in Secaucus, New Jersey.
Your logo is copied, by Ferdinand Vogler
Airbnb vs Azuma Drive-In
Beats vs Stadt Brühl
Medium vs Metrocraft Publishing
OMV vs CTV
Fila vs Ferrero
Uber vs Carl Christiansen
Mysteries & Subtleties, by Hoefler & Co.
The back acreage of a typeface conceals some of its greatest treasures, and tells some of typography’s most fascinating stories. Meet four typographic curios on which the designers at H&Co love to lavish special attention, and learn how these piquant spices can help turn up the flavor of your design.
The symbol called “the 27th letter” has a surprising claim to inclusion in the alphabet: the ampersand is 600 years older than the letter W.
Cousin to the asterisk, the humble dagger has a huge typographic vocabulary: it can be an obelisk, obelus, long cross, or diesis, and it includes both a quillion and a choil.
The paragraph mark commonly thought of as a “backwards P” is beautiful and expressive, and guards two surprising secrets: it doesn’t stand for “paragraph,” and this symbol is actually a letter C.
Once the customary way to represent a number, the Numero symbol battles for supremacy against the # — remaining ubiquitous in Russian typefaces but absent in American ones.
NYC Subway, by Willy Spiller
Willy Spiller: Hell on Wheels
Willy Spiller: Hell on Wheels
Willy Spiller: Hell on Wheels
Willy Spiller: Hell on Wheels
Willy Spiller: Hell on Wheels
Willy Spiller: Hell on Wheels
Willy Spiller: Hell on Wheels
Willy Spiller: Hell on Wheels
Willy Spiller: Hell on Wheels
Willy Spiller: Hell on Wheels
Willy Spiller: Hell on Wheels
Willy Spiller: Hell on Wheels
Willy Spiller: Hell on Wheels
Willy Spiller: Hell on Wheels
In 1979, there were 250 serious crimes reported in the New York subway system – per week. There were six murders in the first two months alone. No other subway in the world was more crime-ridden and infamous.
Hell On Wheels” is a joyous and soulful trip in the bygone era of the New York subway system in the years between 1977-1984. Swiss photographer Willy Spiller, living in New York at the time, documented his underground travels with the curiosity of a foreigner, fascinated by the rush and the madness of its time. It’s the period of the first rap music, graffiti, The Warriors in the cinema, Guardian Angels on the trains and Ed Koch in charge of a broke and crime-riddled city. Willy Spiller’s images are as much a visual document of this incomparable realm as they are a syncopated, colorful poem to the city of New York and its people.
(via Vintage Everyday)