Margaret Calvert on British Road Signs
Offbeat interview with Margaret Calvert who, in 1957, designed much of the roadsign system presently in use in Britain. Via boy-racer TV show Top Gear, of all things. (Thanks Kale!)
Signs (in six parts) - fascinating article in Slate magazine
From March 1-11, Slate magazine writer Julia Turner brings us a fascinating six-part article on signs.
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.)
