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BROWSE
Signs of the Times
Production Method
Silkscreen
Design
Brownstein Group
Senior Art Director: Kyle Ferino
Tracing help shoutouts: James Olstein, Kenny Kim, Melissa Mandia, Jim DiGiovanni
Printing
Awesome Dudes
By painstakingly tracing photos of nostalgic Philadelphia signage into vectors, the Brownstein Group upcycled the city’s history into a modern visual language.
Dimensions (Width × Height × Depth)
18 × 24 in
Page Count
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Paper Stock
French Paper Black
Number of Colors
1
Varnishes
–
Binding
–
Typography
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Project Description
When you live in Philly for a long time you start looking at things in a new way. This city is still packed with hand painted typography, vibrant signage, and architecture that speaks of earlier times. In an attempt to try and catalog some of the city's best typography/signage i had the idea of turning all of these signs into something new. By using a collection of some of my favorite Philadelphia signs was my way of preserving the city’s history as well as giving these signs the visibility they deserve. Each sign was first photographed, and then using the pen tool in illustrator were all recreated as vectors. The best signs were then edited down to create a custom conference table design, a limited-edition triptych set of screen prints, as well as screen printed tote bags.Production Lesson(s)
Recreating old signage as vectors is a daunting task. There is so much detail in many of the signs that became super tedious when there were over 400 signs in total to recreate. Getting each trace just right took a ton of patience and help from others tracing some signs in order to pull it off.
Post Author
Jessica Mullen
Writer for UnderConsideration LLC.
More: Online / On Twitter
Date Published
May 15, 2015
Filed Under
Self promotion
Silkscreen
Tagged with
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UnderConsideration is a graphic design firm generating its own projects, initiatives, and content while taking on limited client work. Run by Bryony Gomez-Palacio and Armin Vit in Bloomington, IN. More…
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Art of the Menu / Cataloguing the underrated creativity of menus from around the world.
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products we sell
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Prints / A variety of posters, the majority from our AIforGA series.
Other / Various one-off products.
events we organize
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Brand Nieuwe Conference / Ditto but in Amsterdam.
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