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Milan Metro wayfinding and signage, Bob Noorda, c. 1963. “This is the first subway signage featuring Bob Noorda’s ‘information band,’ which was used to display station names and pictograms.
Mr. Barnett and Mr. Pohanka have preserved around 215 signs from Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island. The project started out of “emotional necessity,” Mr. Barnett said, describing the ...
The pair, who have backgrounds in film set creation (Pohanka) and graphic design (Barnett) began salvaging old signs when they got hired to create new signage and decided to save the old ones — and it ...
But preserving graphic design means preserving culture." —Lilit Marcus is a writer in Brooklyn (of course) whose work has appeared in Conde Nast Traveler, The Guardian, Cosmopolitan, and The ...
BROADWAY JUNCTION — Photographer Christopher Payne has captured the New York Sign Museum’s efforts to preserve decades-old signage at Noble Signs near Broadway Junction, The Architect’s ...
“Eso es la vida / This is life: Graphic Design from Mexico” is on view at the Palm Springs Art Museum’s Architecture and Design Center, 300 S. Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs, through Nov ...
BOB Design worked with architecture studio Carver Haggard to develop yellow-framed signage boards and maps, while graphic patterns were used to neatly divide the streetscape into clear zones.
Lexington Ave–59 Street 1968 – New York Transit Museum Collection As even more modes of transportation were thrown into the mix, more signs appeared and things got even more confusing.
Alphabet City Photographer Christopher Payne captures the pleasing graphic collisions of the New York Sign Museum in Brooklyn By Christopher Payne, Jack Murphy • June 11, 2025 • Design, Pictorial ...
Co-organized by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and the Smithsonian Institution's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, the show opens at 7 p.m. Friday (through Sept. 29) at the ...
Don Adleta, professor emeritus of graphic design at Ohio University, met with The Tuesday to share community opportunities ...
On at the Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts until June 15, ‘1,200 Years of Japanese Prints’ is an ambitious exhibition that traces the evolution of Japanese printmaking from the 8th century ...