Main entry:

Baines, Phil, 1958-

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

London : Laurence King, 2008.

Description:

192 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Originally published: 2003.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Signs To Direct And Instruct -- 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 -- Signs for all-purpose roads in Britain: the Worboys report 1963 -- Directional signs -- Map-type signs -- Tinkering with the system -- International use of the transport alphabet -- Bilingual road signs -- 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 -- Signs which warn -- Signs which prohibit -- Signs which instruct -- Signs with non-standard shapes -- Adaptations & expansion -- Other standards: the US diamond pattern -- Variations on the theme: arrows -- Using the road -- Signs for pedestrians: heritage & modernity -- Rural simplicity -- Over-design -- Mapping urban spaces -- Signs for travel networks: bus stops -- Railways: identifying stations -- Variety & identity, London's underground -- Ambience & splendor -- Old-fashioned reliability -- Legibility, arrows and pictograms -- Airports -- Railways & airports: Multilingual signs -- Railways & airports: Keeping up to date -- Naming Places And Defining Spaces -- Identifying locations: street names, individuality & standardization -- Materials & letterforms -- Physical presence -- Bilingual signs -- Dog marking its territory -- 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 -- Italy from the republic to the renaissance -- Civic and industrial uses -- Grand gesture and humble details -- Success & failure -- Success & failure, the British Library -- Josep Maria Subirachs in Barcelona -- Barcelona new town hall and related work At Gaudi's Sagrada familia -- Fascia lettering -- Materials & Techniques: tiles, faience, mosaic and modular units -- Metal -- Ceramics, wood and paint -- Silhouette -- Light -- Numbers -- Enlivening spaces -- Stephen Raw and Ralph Beyer -- Ralph Beyer -- Artists & letters: Joan Brossa, Velòdrom d'Horta -- Barcino and other works -- Maarten de Reus, Groen in Carnisselande -- Recording: triumphalism, Rome, empire and dictatorship -- Rome under Mussolini -- Triumphalism & reflection -- Commemoration -- Incidentals: recording, instructing, advertising -- Letters as identity, SPQR -- Dates and makers -- Twelve pictures which wouldn't fit anywhere else -- Endmatter: glossaries -- Further reading -- Index -- Photographic credits/acknowledgments.

Summary:

From the Publisher: 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.

ISBN:

9781856695763 (pbk.)
185669576X (pbk.)

Subject:

Signs and signboards.
Graphic design (Typography)
Graphic arts.
Arts graphiques.
graphic arts.
graphic design.
Skyltar.
Skyltning.

Added entries:

Dixon, Catherine.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 260120
Call No.: BIB 191019
Status: Available