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Something for the weekend from Heinz Richardson of Jestico + Whiles
To get you in the mood for the long weekend a photo from the previous weekends best bourgeois event the Chelsea flower show
An eclectic collection of 3-Dimensional fonts
Beautiful awning on a charming cafe Great Suffolk Street, Southwark.
Wonderful hand painted font, including drips. With the remains of a more professionally applied sign now peeling.
Somehow this sign pulls off cute?
Thank you Helen Penny
Long Lane Cabs Body Shop, South London. Not the most cathy title.
Quality 2D stylings to this billboard. Simple boxy red lettering on a peach background, unorthodox but maybe these are known cabbie colours?
Jubilee fever has hit town. It seems as though every shop in London has been decked out in full regalia for the last couple of months and bookshops are no exception, with Alan Bennett’s The Uncommon Reader and Carol Ann Duffy’s Jubilee Lines taking pride of place. I’m pretty ambivalent about…
A Book of Bits, or a Bit of a Book
This cheeky little book by Spike Milligan is, as the title would suggest, full of bits: picture captions, sketches, poems, ‘so-so stories’ and photos.
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Personal favourites: the Blank of England and a series of scratchy and very cute drawings of the twitt bird. Oh, and the little note in the back: ‘The publishers hope you enjoyed this book and invite you to write for their list of other titles’.
Mini Ice Cream Van, somewhere near Elephant and Castle
The wonderful ICE CREAM font almost has icicles coming off it. As a cultured child I almost lost it but managed to control myself.
The Cosmic House
Tim Norman imagines a miniature solar system revolving through an ethereal London. He tracks the planets through the city, exploring collisions, alignments and our implicit relationship to the cosmos.
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Looks like the hard work is done ready for the summer nice one London Clay
Cat compost and some great frames
The Bridge Hotel, Borough Road, London
You can’t beat mirror letters especially when they have a red outline. But what about the amazing street front folly with Special Offer font and astroturf pyramid?
Last night I was wandering the streets of west London with streaming eyes, as the beautiful British summertime finally got under way and my hay fever kicked in. Then I stumbled into Slightly Foxed, a lovely cool, quiet second-hand bookshop in Gloucester Road which - fun fact alert! - was…
City people know nothing
I’m walking along the canal tow path with my housemate, who has brought his camera with the intention of photographing exciting water fowl.
Spotting a bird beyond the barges, he rushes ahead onto the grass verge at the waters’ edge, and hollers back to me:
“I’m just going to get a photo of this duck!!”
A surly man looks up from his barge along side us. Without looking back at the bird, contemptuously he returns:
“That’s not a duck.”
Time: 1pm
Location: Grand Union Canal
Julia
The Rope House
An asymmetric sharp shaped folly wrapped with a continuous length of thick rope containing an exploded dining room will be one of the this year’s amazing sculptures at The Secret Garden Party festival in Cambridgeshire.
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iPads are not my medicine
Old American gent in a flatcap and tweed squeezes onto the last remaining seat on a packed commuter bus, apparently above the wheel.
Addressing no one in particular:
“Sometimes sitting above the wheel works out really well, but not so good when you have your iPad because it shakes so much.”
He closes his lips and looks about him, bright eyed and expectant. The office worker opposite chips in:
“That’s an enormous suitcase. Surely it’s not just an iPad in there?”
Satisfied, old gent returns:
“Ha, not today, that’s mainly medicine… for some people the iPad is their medicine, but I need real medicine. I would never buy a suitcase like this, my wife got it. It’s because I became an old fart, got spinal disease and can’t carry a rucksack.”
Location: Bethnal Green Underground Station
Time: 8.45 am
Julia
“There is no doubt that a man may sometimes have too fine a name. To be called something illustrious is to come into the world sentenced to a personal insignificance. Better indeed to be called Toothaches than Shakespeare, and Bang than Milton.”
- Things Everyone Wants to Know
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