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[VIDEO] Decoding the Secret Language of Brooklyn Street Signs, Numbers, and Letters

2025-02-28T12:00:00-05:00

Quartz published an interesting article and video in which Alexander Tochilovsky, an adjunct professor of design and typography at The Cooper Union School of Art, analyzes logos, street signs, letters and numbers around Fort Greene, Brooklyn in order to infer their history.

A trained graphic designer, Tochilovsky has been keenly observing the letters on commercial signs, billboards, building names, house numbers, mailboxes, and even manhole covers during his regular walks in Brooklyn, New York, where he lives, and when he travels to other countries. “When I walk around any city, I usually start looking at signs,” says Tochilovsky who was born in the city of Odessa (now Urkaine). “I start reading the city and I start to get an understanding of what goes on there.”

Check out the full article to read more about Tochilovsky and typographic clues around the City.

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How to Decode the Secret Language of Brooklyn Street Signs, Numbers, and Letters

2019-06-27T11:00:00-04:00

Our friends at Quartz published an interesting article and video in which Alexander Tochilovsky, an adjunct professor of design and typography at The Cooper Union School of Art, analyzes logos, street signs, letters and numbers around Fort Greene, Brooklyn in order to infer their history.

A trained graphic designer, Tochilovsky has been keenly observing the letters on commercial signs, billboards, building names, house numbers, mailboxes, and even manhole covers during his regular walks in Brooklyn, New York, where he lives, and when he travels to other countries. “When I walk around any city, I usually start looking at signs,” says Tochilovsky who was born in the city of Odessa (now Urkaine). “I start reading the city and I start to get an understanding of what goes on there.”

Check out the full article to read more about Tochilovsky and typographic clues around the City.

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Animated Font Created for the NYC Heritage Ball Has Glyphs That Expand and Retract

2015-11-25T13:50:42-05:00

New York designer Natasha Jen recently created this sweet fontface called Herita-Geo, inspired by and designed for the NYC Heritage Ball, that includes letters and numbers that expand and contract in order to auto justify the line length in a cool animated way.

Expanding and contracting, the typography visually echoes the way buildings and structures adapt to fill available area, especially in cities and urban environments.

Check out the design page to learn more about the fontface and the design approaches behind it.

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Interactive Site Shows You 13 Miles of Typography on Broadway, from A to Z

2015-11-23T10:54:53-05:00

Hopes&Fears is an online publication that covers arts and culture through design, typography and other visually-oriented medium.

In a recent article titled [13 miles of typography on Broadway, from A to Z], the site created an interactive typographic sliding image for each letter in the alphabet, pulling a fontface directly off the walls of buildings on Broadway.

Broadway is easily America’s most famous thoroughfare. Starting in lower Manhattan at Bowling Green and running the entire length of the island, it strings together some nine to fifteen neighborhoods—depending on who you ask—before bleeding over into the Bronx, serving as a cross-sectional study of the City’s diversity in ethnicity, utility and design. As the Main Street of Manhattan, Broadway exhibits a catalogue of lettering—from neon lights to mom-and-pop shop signs, from theater marquees to building names.

Check out the interactive site for more.

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Crowdfunding Campaign Seeks to Create New Typeface Inspired by Bushwick

2015-10-21T14:24:37-04:00

A new Indiegogo campaign is seeking funding for the completion of a new typeface, a font inspired by the neighborhood of Bushwick.

Independent typeface design is a process that requires two things: time and proper funding. With your contribution, you will help us finish the expanded version of Bushwick the typeface executed completely independently of commercial limitations.

With 3 weeks to go, the campaign has already raised $2.6k of its $7k goal.

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A Few Vintage Shop Signs from 1960s and 1970s Still Existing in New York City

2015-10-05T12:09:15-04:00

Ephemeral New York recently posted a small collection of vintage signs from the 1960s and 1970s that still exist in the City.

They’re an endangered species, these 1960s and 1970s store signs, with their old-school cursive lettering and often sporting a kaleidoscope of colors.

Check them out, then head on over to the full article for more info on any of them.

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Decoding the Secret Language of Brooklyn Street Signs, Numbers, and Letters

2015-08-20T11:54:39-04:00

Quartz recently published an interesting article and video in which Alexander Tochilovsky, an adjunct professor of design and typography at The Cooper Union School of Art, analyzes logos, street signs, letters and numbers around Fort Greene, Brooklyn in order to infer their history.

A trained graphic designer, Tochilovsky has been keenly observing the letters on commercial signs, billboards, building names, house numbers, mailboxes, and even manhole covers during his regular walks in Brooklyn, New York, where he lives, and when he travels to other countries. “When I walk around any city, I usually start looking at signs,” says Tochilovsky who was born in the city of Odessa (now Urkaine). “I start reading the city and I start to get an understanding of what goes on there.”

Check out the full article to read more about Tochilovsky and typographic clues around the City.

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