April 12, 2010
While at art school in Halifax, Nova Scotia, my American friends Paul and Eugene and I lived in a rented seaside house in a nearby fishing village. The day we moved in to our house in Shad Bay we found a framed map of our cove, and it showed a little island across the water from us marked ‘Treasure Island.’ For the next year we tried to get hold of a boat to get over there.
March 26, 2010
March 22, 2010
Bat Knight, bought in Bangkok in 2002 for my nephews who were then 3 and 4 years old. Check out the red text at bottom left of the front of the box.
December 22, 2009
September 10, 2009
Apologies for my continuing semi-absence from this blog. I appreciate your patience and I thought you might enjoy this sign from one of the crafts stalls at the Ferry terminal between Vancouver and Victoria.
April 28, 2009
The Russian Hall, formerly the Russian People’s Home, consistently produces typography so clear, so straightforward, so capitalized it is a manifesto in itself, design or political. This what happens when you try to produce design degree zero: the more you eschew style, the more you achieve it.
January 22, 2009
The politest “No Entry” sign ever written. I photographed it in Korea many years ago.
September 21, 2008
Much more thought-provoking than “Blind Crest.” Road sign in Tanzania near the Ngorogoro Crater, from Lonely Planet.
September 18, 2008
Backstage at Givenchy, from Christopher Anderson’s documentary about NY fashion week 2008. Via simply olive and Loveology.
September 16, 2008
