Holiday photos can look rather samey (I'm completely guilty of this – I have 40 pics of the Eiffel Tower, taken from minorly different angles), so I really love what my friend Dave Regos did when he recently was in Paris. His images show the alphabet of French shop signs. He kindly let me steal a few photos from his album (knowing that they combine two of my favourite things – fonts and the City of Lights) and I hope you enjoy this mini-gallery of what he snapped.
When Dave isn't documenting the lettering of a city, he's either hosting one of my favourite radio shows (and no, I'm not saying that to be cheesy) or making films. Figures & Loops, a documentary he co-directed about "artistic roller-skating" is currently showing as part of the Anode festival. It screens this Sunday at 1000 £ Bend, 361 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, and on November 22, at Paddington Town Hall, Corner Oxford St and Oatley Rd, Paddington. He promised me that there would be ample sequins on show. (I'm not sure what kind of font candy there is in the sport, though.)
Enjoy the sign-watching.
Lee Tran, deputy chief sub-editor
6 comments:
Love the sign typography! I think the last one is my favourite.
I love fonts too! These French ones are great. I live in Buenos Aires and there are some amazing old signs and fonts to see if you have not already made the trip over here xx Carly
So so beautiful!
It's great that you all are taken with the French signs, too. They are all 'magnifique'. A bit of foreign typeface always looks quite striking.
Flowerpress & Carly, I've added yr blogs to our links list! (Dawn, you are already on it!)
Cheers,
Lee Tran
Thanks Lee :-)
Truly wonderful and so refreshing from the obligatory happy snaps one often sees.
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