A little background:

Honest Edwardianism
Hand Painted Signs in the 21st Century

In the 1960's businessman Ed Mirvish began to buy up the period warehouses on King Street West that surrounded his Royal Alexandra Theatre. The Edwardian warehouses were all painted white and so was coined the term, "Honest Edwardianism". That style was particular to Ed Mirvish, so was Honest Ed's, his department store on Bloor and Bathurst. Through a barrage of loud neon signs, witty slogans on hand-painted signs, corney jokes, often at his own expense. That was his shtick, he drew people into the store through old fashioned salesmanship,

Ed's shtick. That shtyle, that way of doing things, was particular to Ed and it was passed on to merchandising, from the neon signs outside his various restaurants and store, to the interior signs that advertised and sold his wares.

Honest Ed’s Department Store sign shop is abuzz with activity, Doug Kerr and Wayne Reuben are at the helm, doing what they do best, creating hand-painted signs for the thousands of products that go on sale at Honest Ed’s every week.

And the good stuff....

Just some notes from the start of a project I stumbled upon in an old sketchbook.

As the designer at a university I'm always interested to see how other schools represent themselves in their
printed materials. This two-part mailout for Loyola University is by far the awesomest example I've seen yet.

For more info and images go here.

And, as an added bonus, my good pal and former classmate Justin Lafontaine is about to join the 160/90 team.
Looking forward to the inevitable radness that ensues.

Regardless who (or what) moves, anything based on the Phenakistoscope is rad.

Stuck in a Groove / Phonovideo from Clemens Kogler on Vimeo.

A Love Letter For You from Megawords Magazine on Vimeo.

Amazing paintings from Kevin Cyr and Jessica Hess. I've seen artists reproduce graffitti before, but never
with this level of detail or reverence.

whitewallssf.com/shows/temporal-surfaces

There's something about artists that started out writing graffiti that always sucks me in. It probably has
something to do with the fact that graffiti, like design, is so centered on typography.

Of all the former graffiti artists I've come across, ESPO (Steve Powers) is my favourite. I first became aware
of his work while he was still painting on the street, specifically covering entire rollshutters in NYC with his
name. After that, he moved into painting signs (which of course got my attention), and most recently has
completed a mural project in Philly called A Love Letter For You. Basically, it's a love letter in the form of a
series of murals painted with a nod to both graffiti and old painted advertisements on buildings.

See more at http://www.aloveletterforyou.com/

I love it when people come up with sweet ideas like this and execute them perfectly. I also love it when
people letterpress non-type objects. So, really, what's not to love here?!

Prints available via Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/shop/Stukenborg

Via Coudal