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Brooke Shields Alphabet

simonsharville — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 09:00:19 +0000

No, I have no idea what it means either, but I like the tiny woman tucked away in the corner, oh, is that perspective.

New Oxford Street, June 2007

Talking of London Bridge

simonsharville — Fri, 11 May 2007 11:11:05 +0000

I found this in my iPhoto library this morning.
One of my earliest jobs as a Graphic Designer saw me as part of the team that designed the new street signage for the City of London. My job was to create a fool proof system of letter spacing so that whoever created a new sign they always had the same look and feel. I was 20 odd and this was before computers kicked to save the day. It consisted of a 4 bar system under each letter and the following letter would but up to one of the 4 steps of the bar, a bit like the old Letraset system but more complicated. As the relationship of each pair of letters differ and you have Upper and lowercase letters as well as numbers etc. It ended up with around 4,000 combinations. You would have to cross reference each pairing and see what the step number was to align it. We had sheets of words all over the studio for a month to check the system. It worked, it still works and they still use it as far as I know. Although it does look a little dated now and I would now open the spacing more.

I didn’t do the tag on this particular sign though, that’s a bit naff.

London Bridge

simonsharville — Wed, 09 May 2007 11:05:13 +0000

I took a photo of a man taking photos of commuters as they walked across the bridge. I think I may start a whole section of strangers taking photos and see what happens. You never know I may get arrested for being weird.

London Bridge, May 2007

Captives

simonsharville — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:49:00 +0000

This was taken quite a few years ago opposite Elephant & Castle. They just all looked so wistful, like they had been waiting for a long, long time to go home.

Elephant & Castle, c1990

Telecom tower

simonsharville — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:24:14 +0000

…or what ever it’s called this week.

London, February 2007

D off

simonsharville — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 14:37:28 +0000

Not much to say today on the East London Line.

under London, January 2007

Please do not do anything

simonsharville — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 12:11:03 +0000

I’m trying not to include graffiti in this blog, there’s far too many others doing that, but this had something. lovely type, lovely colours.

Spittlefields, London, December 2006

Asleep

simonsharville — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 10:54:45 +0000

Crystal Palace Park

Crystal Palace, November 2006

Paint and footprints

simonsharville — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 18:10:10 +0000

Hammersmith, it only seems to be the left foot though, maybe they only had one leg.

Hammersmith, September 2006

Swan in mourning

simonsharville — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 18:08:32 +0000

Hammersmith, September 2006