Love Letters, Typography
Next week’s theme is an ode to those last bastions of gussying up a plain old building: apartment building signs. Painted on glass, mounted on the outside, hanging above the entryway…you know you’ve got a favourite you always pass by! Send your pics and scans to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
And this week:
Fresh Coffee - on the side of a lemon yellow, side-of-the-road ice cream shack.
Now Hiring - Somewhere out there is a business you really should work for, and it has a sign on the ground outside its front door that looks like this. [Thanks to Sarah of Famous Last Words!]
Borax - Viva Borax! May more companies retain their old packaging designs well into this century.
[ posted at 11:51am, Wednesday, April 14th by Vikki ]
Eye Candy, Typography
I just got my Cloudy Collection prints in the mail. Marian Bantjes (whose print is hilarious), Ray Fenwick (whose print is also hilarious), Nate Williams and more, all in glorious two-colour and blind emboss letterpress. The prints are sweet and the letterpress quality is so gorgeous (printed by the fabulous Boxcar Press), they’re a sight to be seen close up. Check ‘em out, I am in awe of the artists founder David Huyck has wooed into his collaborative quarterly.
[ posted at 12:42pm, Thursday, April 8th by Vikki ]
Love Letters, Typography
This week: food. Sort of. Email your pics and scans to Love Letters, and we’ll put them up every wednesday! loveletters@veekee.ca is the ticket.
Fluff - Marshmallow in a jar. Thanks to Jeanie Andronyk, who says “I love the FLUFF part!”. So does Love Letters, thanks Jeanie!
Cyrillic Fruit - A fruit grocery bag in from Steph Chan‘s travels. One cyrillic orange please, fruit market man.
Adam’s Chewing Gum - I was at that happy place, the Antique Mall, the other day, and found these packs of retro chewing gum by the front counter. I wish we could have left everything at this pre-videogame point in design!
[ posted at 8:53am, Wednesday, April 7th by Vikki ]
Love Letters, Typography
This week’s Love Letters are from places familiar. Feel free to collaborate! Email your pics or scans to vikki@veekee.ca, with the subject ‘Love Letters’.
Tabu - Italian liquorice candy from the Italian Centre. I love that script writing below the logo. Can anyone translate it?
Alberta Place - a downtown hotel that obviously (gloriously!) hasn’t updated its logo since the seventies. I walk past it almost every day, and gawk at the buxom nature of these letters.
Now Renting - a handpainted sign in a sea of black and orange ‘For Rent’ signs. I would love to learn how to paint signs the old-school way. Maybe there’s a book at the library…
[ posted at 9:05am, Wednesday, March 31st by Vikki ]