Walking around New York City and looking at signage is a thousand times better than even the best typography book. New York is a mecca of type. It’s everywhere anywhere. Up, down, left, and right.
Designer Jason Powers has recently started a Nyctype.com, a blog focusing strictly on typography from the streets of New York City. The [...]
NYC Typography
Garbage Bag Creatures Are Crawling From NYC Subways!!!
I have a love hate relationship with ’street art’. Half of me loves seeing people think outside of the spray can by creating witty cartoons, wheat pastes, sculptures, and other creative things on the street. The other half gets angered thinking about a 22 year old Pratt student from Wisconsin sneaking out of his college dorm to wheat paste [...]
The Subway Sun 1940-1960
I found the following collection of vintage mass transportation ads while reading Grotesk’s 12ozProphet blog. It’s a collection of “amazing ads from the NY mass transportation from the 40’s to the 60’s.” The magazine used to be called The Subway Sun, and is the predecessor of the now called “Subway talk” that you see in [...]
The MoMa approves of graffiti
The New York State Penal code says that the accused’s “malicious intent” to damage property constitutes the difference between a fourth degree misdemeanor charge and other more serious misdemeanor and felony charges for criminal mischief (i.e. graffiti). Practically speaking, this demand to prove destructive “intent”, makes these judges-turned-curators ask a variation of that dusty, old [...]
The Mirf
1134NYC teams up with NYC Art Toy Brand Thunderdog Studios to release the first ever graffiti based, wall mounted, vinyl toy. Designed by 1134NYC members MINT&SERF, this toy features a pure collaboration, merging their styles to form the iconic ‘MIRF’.
More of a sculpture than a toy, the 9″ long MIRF is rotary molded in [...]
Five Franklin Place - New York, NY
Construction has just begun in Tribeca on Five Franklin Place in Manhattan, New York by Dutch architect Ben van Berkel of UNStudio.
Van Berkel adds “The apartments at Five Franklin Place do not follow a strong grid. They are organically designed in how the stairs swoop upward, how the balcony loops you back indoors. There’s an [...]
