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Brooklyn Lettering Walk with Paul Shaw

Posted on September 30, 2018 by Susan Bednarczyk

TDC and Legacy of Letters are returning to Brooklyn for the first walk in the borough since 2015. This time the focus will be on a group of neighborhoods in the heart of Brooklyn bounded by Church Avenue, Ocean Parkway, King’s Highway, and Utica Avenue: Flatbush, Ditmas Park, East Flatbush, Ocean Parkway, and Flatlands. It … Read more

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Urban Lettering Walk with Paul Shaw: From Canal Street to City Hall

Posted on May 20, 2018 by Angela Voulangas

This walk will look at lettering in a former industrial/commercial section of Lower Manhattan that has been undergoing a rapid transformation into a residential neighborhood for the wealthy. It is a chance to see what still survives of the area’s 19th century and early 20th century lettering before condoization scrubs everything clean. The tour will … Read more

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Creative Week Urban Lettering Walk: Garment District and Chelsea

Posted on May 8, 2018 by Susan Bednarczyk

This year’s Creative Week Urban Lettering Walk is co-sponsored by the Type Directors Club, The One Club, and Legacy of Letters. Design historian Paul Shaw will walk participants through the adjoining West Side neighborhoods of the Garment District and Chelsea between 42nd Street and 14th Street to see letters. The Garment District is an industrial … Read more

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TDC Legacy of Letters Urban Lettering Walk with Paul Shaw: Upper East Side

Posted on November 12, 2017 by Angela Voulangas

We return to Manhattan for the Legacy of Letters urban lettering walk this fall with an investigation of the Upper East Side from 59th Street to 96th Street. The area encompasses both Lenox Hill and Carnegie Hill, two largely residential neighborhoods. But there are numerous institutions from museums to private schools, libraries, churches and government … Read more

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Lettering Walk with Paul Shaw: Financial District

Posted on May 9, 2017 by Angela Voulangas

Rumors to the contrary, New York is not entirely a grid. The area south of 14th Street was developed before the the Commissioners’ Plan of 1811 was adopted. The streets, like those of older European cities, are a hodge-podge of intersecting grids with meandering and bent streets. As the oldest part of Manhattan, home to … Read more

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A lettering tour of Newark with Paul Shaw

Posted on June 19, 2016 by Susan Bednarczyk

This year marks the tenth anniversary of Paul Shaw’s lettering tours of New York’s five boroughs for the Type Directors Club, and the 20th anniversary of the Legacy of Letters tours of Italy, originally done with Garrett Boge but now with Alta Price. During these years Paul has taken photographs of urban lettering everywhere he … Read more

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