Good to see that I am not the only one who has to photograph numbers wherever I see them. Wardour Street in Soho ist still home to many colour labs, film-, sound- and design-studios. Someone decorated this facade by printing out hundreds of numbers and sticking them on the window.
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I am a university student on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland Australia and I am doing a typography course. One of my assignments is to create a Font specimen book with a typeface that has a various number of variations from a well known designer. I am writing to ask if you can help with a range of one of your well known typefaces and any information/data/ etc that can help me to produce my own Font Speciman book. I look forward to your reply. Regards Cherylynne Queensland Australia
Hi Mr. Spiekermann, I am a contributor of Type is Beautiful (a blog written by Chinese, in Chinese and for Chinese ). I wrote an short article about numerous by citing your words at the beginning the other day.
http://www.typeisbeautiful.com/2009/09/1467
Hallo Erik,
just found your Interview on the STADTGESPRAECHE website. Very nice project and lovely input from your side… As I already told Markus – It is the second time I am really pleased and happy that I studied German in high school.
http://ohrin.blogspot.com/2009/09/stadtgespraeche.html
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Note: Also updated my blog to show the written articles in black. No more gray text … promise.:)
Hi Eric
Have a look at this extremely interesting calendar http://www.urbncal.com/ the dates are door numbers from the city of Stockholm. Hope you enjoy it.
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paddy
Hi Erik, that’s a cool photo. @Paddy, thanks for posting that link, it’s very different. I’m going to pick up a copy of the calendar for myself. Had to dig around the site a little but it’s here if anyone wants to get a copy http://supermarkethq.com/designer/18811/products (not my site :))
very cool.
Hello Erik
Nice photograph in this day of everything being digital is nice to hear that there are still many color labs in SoHo. Do you have any tips for beginning photographers I’m looking to begin taking product photographs for my website http://www.pegandrail.com/corawish.html any advice would be appreciated.
Definitely different. Who knows – maybe it’s a code for us to decipher. ;)
~Jane
I often visit London, next time I’m around Soho I will hunt Wardour Street out …
Hi Erik,
I am instinctive individual who likes to click something that interests me. I could see the see your flash of enthusiasm in this photograph, and this is something novel that I have come across. Real fun with numbers, and really looks like a code to be unlocked to know a secret!
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If there’s twenty-one, thirty-one, etc. Have you ever wondered why there’s no onety-one?
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It is because we have 10 fingers and ten toes. Beyond that, numbers become more abstract.
It seems like I am not the only fan of Phytagoras and Robert Langdon here. I don’t know why I get fascinated looking at artworks with numbers on it. But it is the opposite when it comes to algebra. LOL I hate that subject back in college.
Great Photo…It reminds me of a stock market board..Let’s see some more photos of your work. Thanks.
That was quite a job to print out all those numbers not to mention pasting them on the window. It makes a fascinating photograph.
Erik
Certainly an interesting picture I think there is something similar with letters. You spend your time trying to find words that just aren’t there.
Rich
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Numerically Colorful and pleasing to the eyes. It would make a great game for preschoolers to recognize their numbers or a terrific arithmetic game.
I would love to have that for my place!
This is very enteresting picture. Now do all these numbers really tell anyone what they reaaly mean. I play a game with numbers with my kids identifying various letters in different words and then I have them add the numbers representing a letter. It’s challenging for them.
If you’re anywhere in the Atlanta area you have to check out the Coca-Cola building. It’s lit with dynamic graphics from top to bottom on all 4 sides on Th-F-Sa during May 2011.
I can see it from my site: Top of the Garage
Who knew that numbers can also be used as an artwork. I hated them back in school now, I seem to love them when they are just in the street and no need for computations.
It should be fun to buy a new car! Driving a new car is such a great experience, and purchasing the car should be fun as well.
A lot of people would rather skip the whole purchasing process.
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