Although I grew up in the Basque Country, the first time I looked around in Bilbao in search of public lettering was on a visit with Catherine Dixon in 2013. Stephen Coles was right when he said that if you walk with Catherine you will see more. So we, well, probably she, spotted this architectural […]
This is the second instalment of my monthly-ish public lettering delivery. In a walk around Spitalfields for my PhD research, I photographed The Soup Kitchen for the Jewish Poor. This was a philanthropic enterprise, one of the many during the Victorian period, to feed the newcomer Jews that were arriving in London with no money and no connections. […]
This is my new summer resolution: to write one short entry, every month-ish, about something I’ve seen. Something = (architectural) lettering. A few weeks ago I went to Stoke-on-Trent to visit the local archive. The visit was not very successful and, I have to admit, I didn’t love the city. I about to give up when […]
A year ago I decided to upgrade my bicycle, I was using a very heavy and old one, nicely donated by one of my ex-flatmates. It was about time to have something nicer. I browsed online, and for my budget (not a lot) I decided that the best was a hybrid, fun to drive, but […]
This last Christmas has been quite interesting. I have spent them in London, for the second time, and I have used most of the time in doing some progress on my research about architectural lettering in commercial buildings. I am working now in what might be the main case study, the late London brewery Truman’s […]