Fonts & Graphics of Milan
When I walk around Milan I keep seeing all these beautiful fonts on store fronts and on the packaging. I am not a graphics guy but it seems like all their most beautiful packaging and signage fit into a few ,very specific, periods like Belle Époque or Old English or genres like a very fluid script.
It is one of the areas I look forward to learning more about over my future visits Milan. I also want to create a small photo library of these splendid works, I think they fit in on this blog ok, right?
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post a commentLovely. So elegant and timeless, like Milano. You really captured it. Also it was great to meet you in Milano. I am the Afro'd design student from Pittsburgh you met!
Yes! But I would say that even if they didn't fit in the style of the blog, me being a graphic designer and a type junkie. Oh, how beautiful! I can't wait until I get to Venice this fall...
They fit on this blog all right, greart pictures of interesting fonts!
I think they fit completly...one more pleasure for us...
I think it is great how you capture the flair of Milan! For us who have not been there and wish we were (!) it is very nice. Thank you!
yeah!!!
i am architect and i work with graphics and design, too, and i agree with you!!!
more great informations to get here.
just perfect.
tudo a ver!!!
they are beautiful. more typography please!
Are you kidding me? Graphic packaging, second only to street fashion!! It's gorgeous.
You got a great eye
Yes--style is everywhere. The more you show of it, the happier for all...
I love them, too (maybe because I did graphic design for 16 years). Please keep them coming.
Yes, the font theme works great for Sartoialist, imho, or even the broader theme of lovely signage. Words that have really had a great look put together for them.
Hey, I am a graphics guy I'm a graphic designer here in New York and I come to this site a lot for inspiration. Sometimes an attitude or a scarf or a bicycle inspires me in a way a design annual or a beautiful poster never could. So I think it's a two-way street: the (s)Art of seeing, n'est-ce pas?
Hi
You should consider exhibiting at a gallery.
I did not see Saks which I assume was a great night; and great for them, by making them look good to your readers.
But at a gallery you can focus on the artistry of your work presenting a showcase of your favorite images combined with a video presentation of your best clips...We are discussing doing one in Berlin in April and it is great printing all the work in tabloid size and looking into the soul of your subjects...Viewed from London...
great idea, sart!
it speaks to us graphic-designer-by-day-fashionista-by-night types marvelously!
Ah bellisimo! Hehe... These are just gorgeous. I'm a total sucker for typography and packaging, and these just make me long for Europe. They're just so other worldly. Thank you for posting this!
If you want to put fonts on your blog you will make me very happy indeed! :)
sure they fit here! ;) Nice addition to your blog imo.
I also like taking series of photographes in my trips, like "door handles" or "policemen" :)
nothing matches your taste and sensibility more than good design- in my opinion. graphics and fashion go hand in hand when considering sophistication. keep up the good work!
Very beautiful fonts indeed. In NYC, you can see such fonts at the Santa Maria Novella store and places like Balthazar and Pastis.
They *are* beautiful, aren't they? And one of the things that makes them so beautiful is that they are typefaces, not fonts. An antique concept indeed!
the first picture is definitely of your best.
it's...got that 'something'.
LOVE IT! Love your detail shots--reminds me of the first posts you ever had.
Find the old "baci" (the chocolate confection by Perugina) typefaces/fonts -- you'll love them! (Tasty treat, too.)
I adore your work and, because of it, don't feel like I have to return to l'Italia or Europe -- you inevitably photograph the details and the light that enchant me!
if a sign was a stylish person, these fonts would be the cool red socks or the great belt. :) so glad you shared these... they're stylish, and when do most of us get to see fonts in milan? this graphic designer says thank you for posting!
Funny how details I saw a thousand times before seem completely different shot from a different view!
Thanks, the next time I'm on a city walk I'll pay more attention!
Sublime.
Napoli too, if you get the opportunity.
Simply love it.
Fits perfectly with the gentlemen in your blog.
Heritage and legacy are the main values on the Italian aesthetic. The type is pretty because appeals to a sense of familiar security...
Nice tangent!
Recently came accross your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I dont know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.