Signs of the NPS
Photos of all of the US NPS entrance signs from Flickr users BruceandLetty documenting their quest to hike all 391 sites, including American Samoa and Guam. Photos date from January 2003…
Underground Design
Some amazing images of the Stockholm Metro system — seemingly equal parts art, design & theatre. This came to me from a retweet by an unlikely source — love his…
Seems New, Seems Right
There’s an interesting paradox that crops up when designers work in heritage settings - the course of action that seems correct and obvious almost never is. This tendency is fueled…
Magnetics reinvented
From the world of POP displays, comes a clever new twist on magnetics for graphics. Most people are familiar with magnetic mats and display films with magnetic edge strips -…
EGD images
The Signage, Wayfinding, and Environmental Graphic Design Flickr group is a useful source of inspiration, with images from around the world. There's a mixture of photos and renderings, around 350 images…
Handwritten by Typographers
An interesting post about the handwriting of Typographers, questioning how their own, most personal way of written communication informs or affects their designs of the building blocks of written communication for…
Wayfinder
Stuart Lambon's open-source typeface Wayfinder is a sans serif optimized for easy reading at speed for wayfinding applications. Free to download and use, includes arrows. (via twitter: @davejorr)
a big, crazy typography problem
Nick Paumgarten's fascinating account of the challenges and considerations that arose in laying out the names of the victims of 9/11 on the ground zero memorial appears in the latest edition…