Sunday, 26 July 2015

The First Coffeeshop

While in Amsterdam, I came across the first ever coffeeshop in the city, and some really great signage. It reminded me a lot of the signage in Dalston, with the use of neon lighting to create the font.  The font is all capitals, which works with the short words and grabbing your attention....
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Sunday, 19 July 2015

Dutch Graffiti

Walking through the streets of Amsterdam was a wonderful time. We got to see all the different street art and signage, and it was all so different than America or London. Here is an example of graffiti done in decorative fonts. It is very different than the street art I chose for one of my previous...
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Wayfinding

This sign is a demonstration of wayfinding. This past weekend I went to a music festival called BuitenWesten in Amsterdam, Netherlands and these were signs that helped all the festival goers find their way around. It had arrows directing to all the different stages, toilets and food joints. Everything...
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Thursday, 16 July 2015

Brighton

I had zero expectations before I left for Brighton, which I think is what made it so incredible. Perhaps I lack knowledge in geography, but I didn't even know it was on the coast of England (lol). A few people from my group and I spent two days and one night in this beautiful, coastal city,...
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Sunday, 12 July 2015

Signage

One of the most amazing restaurants in all of London is hidden on a tiny side street off of New Bond Street. The whole restaurant was built as individual art installations in each room. The rooms are absolutley fascinating between the all pink old-fashioned tea room to the egg shaped bathrooms. Not...
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