Emerald's blog for documenting making, doing and finding things interesting...
It used to be Lambeth’s Workhouse in Victorian times (Charlie Chaplin was a former resident), then a maternity ward when the NHS bought it. Today it is the home of London’s Cinema Museum. Ronald Grant...
These photos of buildings found in Clerkenwell (Corporation Row) show typical ‘School Board’ stone signs, found from following the walk in Chapter 2 (Trailblazers for Democracy in Clerkwnwell Green) of the book Rebel Footprints....
Inspired by the street typography of India, Hanif Kureshi and Shabbu created these handpainted signs inside the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London.
Loughborough Junction Action group – a community project local to me – sent out a request for some volunteer design work last year. They were looking for someone to create a visual identity that...
A friend was using paints, and told me he was using the same boxes his grandpa had used to keep his paints in. I love a bit of printed ephemera, and the printing, colour...
Now I like typography – love the craft and skill of lettering both hand done and machine. However my interest pales in comparison to that on my Uncle James. I remember once visiting him...
As usual I Like… dishes up the goods with the worlds biggest pencil, a link to AceJet170’s Found Type Friday (apt as I’ve just been putting up some pics with lettering..) and from thence...