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Hair affairs
From the site Strange Maps comes this record from Die Zeit of the popularity of awful puns in the names of German hairdressing salons. The most popular is ' Haarmonie '. The others uphold that unfortunate line about the missing Germanic funny bone: Haareszeiten puns on Jahreszei... Read more ...
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Following the diagram in Lisbon
In Lisbon I much enjoyed the metro system, which is full of art and something of which the city is clearly proud. Its diagram uses Metrolis, a custom font from The Foundry . The lines are called seagull, sunflower, caravelle and orient: they have over-fussy graphics that don't quite f... Read more ...
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Lampitt's living maps
A worthwhile post on English Buildings drew my attention to Ronald Lampitt's illustrations in The map that came to life , a children's book first published by OUP in 1948. Elsewhere there's also a complete set of spreads and a page about Lampitt's map of an ideal city . The beautiful... Read more ...
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