Olympic building

A really unique pavilion from Coca-Cola and the team Asif Khan & Pernilla Ohrstedt called Beatbox. Sounds of the Olympic environment were used to create an anthem and are embedded in the architecture itself to be played by visitors as they move through the space. Nice combination of environment and building through an interactive sensory experience.

Urban flow info system

Urbanflow mockup of information integrated into the urban landscape.

Space 847

Does the screw really need to be in that exact spot?

From the Domain shopping center, Austin, TX

Interface Fail

This is a parking garage kiosk that clearly has issues. The interface needs multiple handwritten helpers to guide the user. The large number of interventions has begun to create its own difficulties by confusing the operator with too many extra clarifying messages.

Signs of a Different Kind

Bear as sign, Amersham, UK


Vernacular signage. Amersham, UK


Italian restaurant. Battersea, UK

Crispy Duck Dinner. Amersham, UK

I don't have anything in particular to say about these images. I just found them interesting in the way the various owners have found to communicate what they are 'selling'.
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No Parking, Please

A nice way of asking. Amersham, UK

I know it is cliche as someone interested in typography to go around and take photos of 'no parking' signs. But, hey, ho. I just couldn't resist adding these signs to the collection.

Most 'no parking' signs attempt to warn us off from parking somewhere, but the owner of this one found in Amersham, UK, took a different tactic. As my mother used to say "it never hurts to say please."

I just had to include this second image of a  'no parking' sign as a lesson to those of us who thrive on experimental typography and letterspacing. Yeah, I know....get a life!

If you want to see some really humorous 'no parking' signs, then take a look at this site.

The art of letterspacing. Amersham, UK.


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Space Trek

A Tumblr blog of images from the original Star Trek series showing "the quiet despair of the Starship Enterprise." An interesting collection of mostly uninhabited scenes (some with people unengaged with the viewer) that include many portals that connect to an unseen, inaccessible, or perhaps dangerous space beyond the confines of a space inhabited by us the viewers. Some of the despair comes from this lack of mobility, some from loneliness, and perhaps some from the sharp lighting on hard surfaces.

Something about the lack of detail in the ship makes the outer space it moves through seem more vast and the crew more vulnerable and alone. Is the craft defined by the territory it moves through, or does the territory define how we understand the ship?