A Type Travel Diary
A collection of typographic findings from my travels during the last five years. Some led me specifically to research destinations, other observations were spontaneously made on site. Looking at the typographic details of a city always leads to exciting discoveries.
Many of the local features described here add to the flair of the destinations in a charming way, yet most of them are threatened with extinction. I hope that the Type Travel Diary can serve as a source of inspiration especially in these times of limited travel.
Kolkata
The capital of Bengal is the intellectual centre of India and has a lot to offer typographically.
Kolkatas hand-painted buses: Pilot!
A world apart: Park Street Cemetery
The last days of the Padmini Taxis
Mumbai Taxi Art
Two cities dump their urban icons.
While the last 50 of the once 95,000 Fiat taxis will be banned from the streets of Bombay in 2020, Hong Kong is dismantling around 3,000 of its decades-long style-defining neon designs every year.
While the last 50 of the once 95,000 Fiat taxis will be banned from the streets of Bombay in 2020, Hong Kong is dismantling around 3,000 of its decades-long style-defining neon designs every year.
In both cases, these are municipal ordinances for the benefit of the public. The resulting loss of former icons of the cityscape is accepted by the authorities.
An inventory Hong Kong Neon
Amsterdam
A station as a stage for motion design,
Amsterdams Krulletters and the market painter
Henry van der Horst.
Bruin Cafés with Typedesigner Ramiro Espinoza
Market painter Henry van der Horst
Design in Motion Festival at the Centraal StationVienna
An unique amusement park, Europe’s only sign painter museum and a saved advertising wall.
The incredible rescue of an old advertising wall
Visit to the Prater whale
Viennas Prater during the Lockdown 2020 
Gilded Vienna
Documentary »Vienna’s Last Signpainter«
Viennas second Public Lettering WallSalfords, UK:
On the traces of the Forte font at Monotype
Finding Forte: sightings worldwideSaigon
In search of the old Saigon, French heritage and advertising in extreme format
In search of the old Saigon
Awnings: 3D-Type in extreme format
Colourful discovery along the roadsideThe countryside
in Austria and elsewhere
Gmunden Ceramics
Been there, Don Det –Advertising in a tropical paradiseBangkok, Chinatown
Roadside Heidelberg: Kwong Fah Press
