at a Rona's lumber yard
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What is Villatype?
After admiring the signs and lettering on my walks to work, I wanted to document what I had found. We often discuss the cultural impact of architecture and urban spaces but rarely the words and letters found in these spaces. So here is villatype, a visual record and discussion of type and lettering found in the public domain. I hope you will all take part by adding to the dialogue and posting your own finds.
Call for submissions
villatype is always searching for found type and lettering in any public space. You can send me images along with your name, city, street and date. Or, even better, become a contributor and post them yourself by emailing me your contact info and I will add you as a contributor.
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Contributors
- Mandy Milks (editor)
- Jenn Lawrence (editor)
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- Wilson Barry
- Ross Chandler
- Alex Davey
- Carmel Dias
- Tyler Greenleaf
- Jordan Hale
- Bob Hambly
- Yanek Iontef
- Marcelo Iriarte
- Richard Kegler
- Peter Kimmins
- Mike Langlie
- The Mayor
- Russell McGorman
- Wojtek Mejor
- Kevin Naulls
- Colleen Nicholson
- Martin Pyper
- Kavel Rafferty
- John Ryan
- Nick Shinn
- Joe Shouldice
- Anthony Swaneveld
- Mark Tang
- Team Alpha Bravo
- Richard Toonkel
- Chryssi Tsoupanarias
- Ben Weeks
- Lee H. Wilson
- Emma Wright
- Ibraheem Youssef
More found type links
- NYC Type
- TypArchive
- Bonita Barcelona
- How Greg Sees It
- Fontef photolog
- Jules Vernacular
- Fresh Brewed
- H&FJ News, Notes and Observations
- Porchez found type
- mads KNIPSER
- Me Studio
- Safari typographique
- Typo Trip
- Fontspotting
- The Helvetica Meditations
- Mark Simonson: Old type & lettering
- Clearview HWY
- Type in the Toronto Subway
- Pictures of Walls
- Typophile found type buttons
- Itchybot
- Letterpeg
Found
- amsterdam (3)
- antwerpen (1)
- Arabic (1)
- Are you there Fonts? It's me The Mayor (6)
- Bangkok (2)
- Barcelona (2)
- bathurst street (2)
- Belgium (5)
- Berlin (1)
- Bolivia (4)
- Boston (1)
- Brighton (1)
- brooklyn (4)
- Buffalo (2)
- buildings (1)
- Chicago (11)
- chinatown (1)
- CO (1)
- College Street (1)
- Coney Island (1)
- Copenhagen (1)
- Cuba (10)
- Denver (1)
- Deutsche (1)
- Distillery District (2)
- Dublin (1)
- Dufferin (1)
- dundas street west (2)
- dupont (1)
- east coast canada (1)
- Egypt (2)
- England (4)
- eugenia (1)
- fall (1)
- fashion (1)
- Finland (1)
- flesherton (1)
- Flickr Finds Friday (25)
- Florida (2)
- france (1)
- Fredericton (1)
- furniture (2)
- German (1)
- Germany (1)
- graffiti (4)
- Hamilton (1)
- hand done (3)
- Havana (1)
- helvetica (1)
- honeymoon (1)
- Iceland (8)
- Interview (2)
- Ireland (1)
- japan (8)
- Kobe (1)
- Kyoto (2)
- Las Vegas (3)
- leslieville (1)
- links (1)
- Lisbon (1)
- london (10)
- los angeles (1)
- Mahone Bay (1)
- Malta (1)
- Manhattan (1)
- Mexico (1)
- Midland (2)
- Mont Royal (1)
- Montreal (15)
- more found type (7)
- movie titles (1)
- Munich (1)
- nagoya (1)
- Nara (1)
- neon (4)
- New Brunswick (1)
- New England (1)
- New York (12)
- New York City (15)
- North york (1)
- Northwest Territories (1)
- Nova Scotia (2)
- old port (2)
- ontario (2)
- Orangeville (1)
- Ossington (2)
- Ottawa (2)
- paris (5)
- parkdale (1)
- Poland (1)
- prince arthur ave. (1)
- public transport (1)
- Quebec City (1)
- queen street west (8)
- Queens (1)
- queens quay (3)
- Retail Signage (3)
- Reykjavik (7)
- Richmond Hill (1)
- roncesvalles (1)
- rural ontario (2)
- San Francisco (3)
- Scarborough (1)
- Shadows (1)
- Shiraishi Island (2)
- sicily (3)
- signage (1)
- Spain (4)
- St. Lawrence Market (1)
- Store Sign (3)
- Street Art (1)
- sweden (5)
- Sweden (3)
- Tel Aviv (3)
- Thailand (1)
- Tiny (1)
- Tokyo (4)
- toronto (147)
- Toronto Island (2)
- trinity bellwoods (3)
- type blog (7)
- Varadero (1)
- vintage signs (3)
- Waterloo (1)
- Williamsburg (1)
- Winnipeg (1)
- Yonge Street (3)
- York Region (1)
1 comment:
Ha! I just LOVE typefaces developed out of necessity by a guy and his buddy working at a lumberyard...
"Hey Jimmy, I am getting really f*#king tired of these stupid customers always asking which way they have to drive in."
"Yeah Joe. Or how about the ones who just drive in the exit like they own the freakin' place? Hey, I have an idea! Let's make some signs! We got paint. We got plywood. And we got tape. Done."
Gregory Alan Elliott
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