Saturday, 23 August 2014

Hand Drawn Type- America


Here is a chalkboard that was outside a health shop, I like the different uses of type, however I think the type could be a bit bigger 


A chalk board outside a coffee shop, I really admired their logo. The chalkboard is clear and can be read easily from a distance


I really don't like the type on this chalkboard it reminds me of graffiti but looks worse, I like the use of colour though. 


A hand painted retro sign over a cafe down sunset boulevard LA



A crazy shop in LA called 'wonder freak' this was their signs for the shop some simple hand drawn chalkboards


A fancy ice cream chalkboard advertising an ice cream parlour, I like how they made the type look cold like ice cream


This chalkboard was really finely detailed something you don't normally see on a chalkboard


Some hand drawn type for a crab restaurant 


Venice Beach LA had some of the nicest type ever, everything was so colourful and eye catching, the type was really over powering 


This was my favourite hand drawn sign at Venice Beach, I love the use of illustration




A very neat chalkboard with a good layout 



A couple of signs in an American grousers, they had really nice illustrations of the veg behind the signs, and simple shadow type




The hand painted ice cream vans in New York, very eye catching 


This is piece of Rob Ryan's work projected in Grand Central station, he makes his hand drawn type by cutting out paper 


A chalkboard sign outside Trader Joe's super market New York 

Friday, 15 August 2014

Hand Drawn type- Fiji






A lot of the signs in Fiji were again on chalkboards and hand drawn everyday. Above is a photo of the man changing the menu, he did this twice a day. 



This is some hand painted type in the capital of Fiji, Suva. I really liked the almost bubble writing, it was so different from shop signs in the UK 


I liked the use of colour and  simple illustration on this board


I admired this hand painted type for the market, its nice type with a good use of white for highlights. 


Here I like really like the bubble type for 'night club', this was hand painted onto tiles


The banner at the top of this sign makes it look quite traditional, I liked how the type it wasn't perfect close up.


Here I like the use of colour the type looks quite fun



I like this wide type on this sign, with good contrasting colours it really stands out. 



The shopping hours hand painted on the wall 


A really hard to read chalkboard


When they can't fit the e on the end of welcome ha