December 2008
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Not sure about you all, but my mind is starting to turn towards the New Year. After a week of sleep and feasting I’m ready to venture into the outside world, and start working off the extra pounds…
Frosted in New York →
New York Times photographer, Bill Cunningham, writes a wonderful series of interactive audio-visual guides to New York, called “On The Street“, which appear occasionally on nytimes.com. In…
The credit crunch Christmas crush at Bloomies →
Saturday afternoon shopping after Christmas at midtown Bloomingdales is normally just a wee bit busier than this!
A typographical tour of the City of London →
Just when you thought the typeface geekery around here couldn’t get any more, well, geeky… it just did. This is an incredibly thorough and informative 15 minutes on the typefaces of The City and…
Video from London →
We’ve had a bit too much video from New York recently, and it’s time to redress the balance with some great new clips from the Christmas period in London.
This from Jim Worsley via Vimeo
Buzzwords of 2008 by the NYT →
New Yorkers are famous for their snappy attitudes and turn of phrase. This fab piece in the ‘old grey lady’ uses typographical illustration to update us on with whole load of new phrases to be…
Homage to Bleecker Street →
We found this super little video of Bleecker Street, featuring many of the places we have already bookmarked into Metrotwin (and some that we haven’t yet, but must - such as the Marc Jacobs shop…
Happy Newton folks →
Nothing in today’s UK broadsheets to commemorate the birthday of London’s most brilliant *ever* scientist, Isaac Newton. On the other hand, there’s this eulogy in the New York Times:
“In…
You thought Helvetica was the NYC subway font? →
Well, you were almost correct, but the subway’s been going a long time and the first signs were very different. This blog post at AIGA’s website provides all the information you’ll ever need to…
