Vienna-based graphic designer Tom Koch teamed up with Better Letters to produce the second in their series of biopics about veteran sign painters. This short film celebrates the life and times of…
From the workshop signs of the increasingly gentrified Mullae-dong district and the backyard print shops around Euljiro Printing Alley to the student-oriented streets of Hongdae and slightly faded…
In April 2026, a new NIKE flagship store opened on the east side of Shinjuku Station. In an environment that all but overwhelms the viewer with advertising messages, the creative team led by the…
The series ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’ brings together typographic finds from a range of cities. The photographs present them as they were encountered: unembellished, unedited and without…
Her articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Japan Times, and the South China Morning Post. Given the breadth of her work, the author Manami Okazaki can justifiably be…
Inspired by the Signs of Saigon project by Steffi Neukirchen, I set out on my first trip to Ho Chi Minh City in December 2019 with the expectation of encountering a wealth of historic lettering.
As…
Just a few stops west of Shibuya in western Tokyo, the neighbourhood of Koenji feels like a different world. While the capitals famous entertainment districts are defined by neon lights and constant…
Hallstatt was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997. In recent years, the village has come to exemplify the phenomenon of overtourism: despite a resident population of approximately 750,…
Before Hideji Terada began his artistic career in 2022, he was a highly regarded graphic designer whose work had been featured, among other places, in the Tokyo issue of Slanted Magazine. In recent…
A November morning at the Albert Cuyp Market in Amsterdam. The distinctive style of the price signs at many stalls immediately catches the eye. Responsible for them is the market signwriter Henry van…