Guaranteed Milk Bottle revealed
Work has finally finished on the restoration of Montréal’s landmark Guaranteed Milk Bottle. Sweet!
Memory Lane
From one of Montréal’s neighbourhoods comes a resourceful way to ‘recycle’ old street signs.
Image: ‘Councillor Mike Cohen with old CSL street sign.’ (c) 2009 Ville de Côte Saint-Luc.
Thanks to Lynn for the tip!
Guaranteed!
UPDATE: More information on the restoration project from the Gazette. Here and here. Surprised to see that Heritage Montréal’s top ten list of things and places to save does not include the Farine Five Roses sign.
Montréal’s landmark Guaranteed Milk bottle has received an unexpected reprieve – and will soon have a fresh coat of paint. Score one for the city’s fast-disappearing industrial heritage, and bravo to Heritage Montreal
Photo by Flickr user • Christian & Cie •. CC 2007.
Logorama
Logorama is a new short film from H5. Looks amazing, and not wholly unexpected: H5 is the studio behind another brilliant video, Antoine Bardou-Jacquet and Ludovic Houplain’s The Child
WTC Logo Preservation Project
Just what it says
Type Nesting
Birds. Nests. Signs. Yup.
Museum of Letters (Berlin)
I was a bit slow to discover this amazing place, but, gosh, what a place it is. The Museum of Letters in Berlin (site in German) and a Core77 showcase about the Museum, in English.
Two burning questions: a) how on earth did it get funded, and, b) how did they manage to collect all these examples? (For anyone who’s tried collecting old signs, you’ll know how difficult it can be: even if you happen to be there on the right day and the sign or demolition people are sympathetic, it’s still entirely possible to lose these things in dumpsters or scrap heaps, or for them to be spirited away, perhaps into someone’s private collection.)
Sign manufacture
Wonderful Flickr set inside the Washington State Dept of Transportation sign shop. Wow. (Image CC WSDOT.)
Is that....? (Yup.)
Brilliant art/knitting intervention by Lauren Marsden . Bravo. (Image copyright Lauren Marsden. Via Craft: magazine.)
Enseignes Montréal Signs
We’re working hard to set up the ‘Enseignes Montréal Signs’ community database – a kind of wikipedia for signs old and new in Montréal. More news as it happens..
Another part of the project is to step in and try to save certain signs that are under threat of removal/loss, or, having been saved by caring community members, are in need of new storage space. This is a very modest, low-budget effort which will nevertheless see some signs displayed semi-permanently inside one or more campus buildings at Concordia University.
Above, some of the Ben’s Restaurant signage, courtesy of the demolition crew; and, the Warshaw sign, courtesy the SDBSL (10/3/08). (My grad student helpers and I had just picked up the signs; we then laid them out on the grass at the Loyola campus to log everything, before placing it all in secure storage.)
