Posts tagged signs
Sudtipos is sure to have another hit with the new Storefront typeface, which reminds me a bit of one of my favorite signs: The Berghoff in Chicago. I hope my friend Alejandro Paul won’t mind a little dig, but I think there are some curves here and there that aren’t as smooth as they could be (see the ‘ho’ connection). Still, Ale is in a class of his own with these kinds of novelty script fonts.
Mid-century signs of the LA area, photographed by Marc Shur.
Marina del Rey, California.
Photo by Corey Holms.
This doesn’t look real.
Blumenhaus Wittelsbach
Munich, Germany
Florian HardwigClick the detail shot to see it large. If you have ever bent neon you see more than a nice sign here. You see evidence of painstaking effort from the hands of an experienced craftsman. Those sharp corners (such as in the ‘n’ and ‘u’ or at the end of the ‘t’ crosses where the glass goes back into the metal) are incredibly difficult to make without misshaping the glass. Usually you’ll see a slight dent at these bends. This is a work of honor and pride where no corners were cut. Signs like these were made to last, recognizing that each will be seen by thousands, perhaps millions, over its lifetime.
Precision neon is a wonder to behold, particularly if you’ve stumbled through a bending class like I have.
Neon in Nürnberg, Germany (by Goran Patlejch)
always mind your target audience (by Nina Stoessinger)
As an aside, these Euro forbidden signs always confuse me. In North America anything not allowed has a slash through it or is written out with a “NO”. To me, this reads “dogs ok”.
Crapi Apartments by Your Pal Dave on Flickr.
New York in Lights by Chateau Bezerra
(via Maury Postal and photomuchacho)
There a Tad’s Steaks in San Francisco too. It’s one of my favorite signs. I hear the steaks aren’t as good as the neon.
drop shadow (Caren Litherland)
(via patricking)
