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Signs : lettering in the environment / Phil Baines and Catherine Dixon.

By: Baines, Phil, 1958- [author].
Contributor(s): Dixon, Catherine [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Laurence King, 2008Copyright date: ©2003Edition: Revised.Description: 192 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781856695763 (paperback); 185669576X (paperback).Subject(s): Signs and signboards -- Lettering | Graphic design (Typography) | Street signsDDC classification: 741.6
Contents:
Informatory signs: milestones in Britain -- Kilometre markers: Spain, France and Japan -- Early British road signs -- British 1933/44/57 standard directional signs -- British motorway signs: the Anderson Committee 1962 -- Signs for all-purpose roads in Britain: the Worboys Report 1963 -- International use of the Transport alphabet -- The US 'Interstate' type -- Map-type direction signs: Spain, France and Italy -- Michelin signs in France --France after Michelin -- Highlighting road numbers -- Regulatory signs: the Geneva protocol 1949 -- Other standards: the US diamond pattern - Variations on a theme: arrows -- Using the road -- Signs for pedestrians: heritage and modernity -- Signs for travel networks: bus stops -- Railways: identifying stations -- Airports -- Railways and airports: multilingual signs -- Railways and airports: keeping up to date -- Identifying locations: street names, individuality and standardization -- Boundary markers -- Names for towns and villages: the official and the home-made -- Identifying and enlivening buildings: architectural (permanent) and fascia (temporary) lettering -- Architectural lettering: considerations of letterform, position, scale and material -- Fascia lettering -- Numbers -- Enlivening spaces -- Artists and letters: Joan Brossa, Velodrom d'Horta -- Recording: triumphalism, Rome, empire and dictatorship -- Incidentals: recording, instructing, advertising -- Twelve pictures which wouldn't fit anywhere else.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This book focuses on the letterforms and typography in public places, from road signs to building names, that help us to navigate cities and countryside and contribute to a sense of place.

Featuring examples from around the world, the book discusses the function and execution of signage. Visually led, Signs contains 700 color images grouped together thematically and described in extended captions, showing the best current examples alongside historical material.

Part resource, part celebration, the book forms an exciting visual compendium.

Includes index.

Informatory signs: milestones in Britain -- Kilometre markers: Spain, France and Japan -- Early British road signs -- British 1933/44/57 standard directional signs -- British motorway signs: the Anderson Committee 1962 -- Signs for all-purpose roads in Britain: the Worboys Report 1963 -- International use of the Transport alphabet -- The US 'Interstate' type -- Map-type direction signs: Spain, France and Italy -- Michelin signs in France --France after Michelin -- Highlighting road numbers -- Regulatory signs: the Geneva protocol 1949 -- Other standards: the US diamond pattern - Variations on a theme: arrows -- Using the road -- Signs for pedestrians: heritage and modernity -- Signs for travel networks: bus stops -- Railways: identifying stations -- Airports -- Railways and airports: multilingual signs -- Railways and airports: keeping up to date -- Identifying locations: street names, individuality and standardization -- Boundary markers -- Names for towns and villages: the official and the home-made -- Identifying and enlivening buildings: architectural (permanent) and fascia (temporary) lettering -- Architectural lettering: considerations of letterform, position, scale and material -- Fascia lettering -- Numbers -- Enlivening spaces -- Artists and letters: Joan Brossa, Velodrom d'Horta -- Recording: triumphalism, Rome, empire and dictatorship -- Incidentals: recording, instructing, advertising -- Twelve pictures which wouldn't fit anywhere else.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Phil Baines is a senior lecturer in graphic design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, and author of Type and Typography (2nd edition, 2005).

Catherine Dixon is a visiting tutor in typography at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London. Together they curate the Central Lettering Record, London.