On 7 November 2019, the usual flow of commuters at Amsterdam Centraal Station was joined by conspicuous clusters of young people, many of them filming on their iPhones. Design enthusiasts from across…
A chance discovery not far from the memorial to Thích Quảng Đức—who set himself alight in Saigon on 11 June 1963 in protest against the persecution of Buddhists: at a roadside stall, the colourful…
In 2009, the magazine Creative Review appeared with a cover that brought sudden attention in the West to an art form that had hitherto remained almost entirely unknown: the ornate typographic…
They belong to Amsterdam much as pubs belong to London: bruin cafés—intimate, traditional establishments frequented by locals and, for the most part, still largely untouched by gentrification and the…
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…
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,…
At Abney Park Cemetery, subtle details emerge upon closer inspection of the gravestones. The lettering, in particular, appears almost as if it had been applied to the surface, bearing a striking…
In December 2017, I travelled to Hong Kong to document the remaining neon signs. My explorations took me across all parts of the city; night after night, I followed the glow of this distinctive…
Cars, buses, countless yellow Ambassador taxis, hand-pulled rickshaws, and India’s only tramway: the streets of Kolkata exist in a near-constant state of movement and congestion.
Yet during Durga…
South Park Street Cemetery was among the earliest non-ecclesiastical cemeteries in the world and, in the nineteenth century, likely the largest Christian burial ground outside Europe and the…