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Typographic cities

We were wandering about the web today, and passed by Michael Surtees rather lovely DesignNotes blog, in which he'd just posted about the Typographic Walking Tour of New York that he'd done on Saturday.

It was organised by Tobias Frere-Jones from type foundry Hoefler & Frere-Jones, using the research he'd done for their wonderful typeface Gotham, which is based on American architectural signage.

Surtees has a fantastic Flickr set from the tour, and there are links to other sets on the H&FJ blog.

Deep yumminess. (And it reminded us of the Public Lettering walk that Phil Baines put together a few years back.)

Hmm. Wonder how much a flight to NYC is right now...

posted: 2 October 2007
categories: Architecture | Ephemera | Events | Graphics | Typography

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