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 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 […]
By looking back at my Rolling Bibliography I’ve noticed that there is no city in the world without its very own book about (vernacular) public lettering. Although this is an exaggeration, it can be said that there are more and more cities being the object of such kind of books. More often [graphic and type] designers, photographers, and the […]
My supervisor recommended to have a ‘rolling’ bibliography. I couldn’t love the name more. The original ‘rolling’ one includes mostly everything I am reading. I thought I could clean it and leave only the books related to public lettering and share it. Maybe one day I will add comments on each book, but considering the […]