Parking up in an NCP car park in Norwich City centre on Saturday, spotted this great piece of art. According to the parking attendant a collection of art students had approached Norwich Council with the idea of ‘covering’ a building in hand painted messages. They sold the idea that the paint would wash off in 3 months, and that was 3 years ago!
Making his return from the late 90′s typography grunge era, David Carson has announced his return to journalism with a new magazine, appropriately titled, ‘Carson’. Famous for his radical approach to typography and conceptual advertising in Ray Gun magazine, Carson paved the way to change how designers used and viewed typography as a medium, pushing us out of our Bauhaus influenced boxes into a crazy world where anything was possible. Since then, typography has returned to it’s former clean cut ways as people now prefer clarity and clear unadorned type, with Carson’s work now considered retro. So now with his return, it will be exciting to see what waves are made.
You can visit the Carson Magazine website here and order the subscription for $20.91 (but a bit pricey for the UK at $102.27) for 6 issues.
Fraktur writing for the Legacy of Letters italian tour, organize by Paul Shaw, NYC