Bit more Johnstonia
26/01/2013
Can’t have too much. These black and white illustrations from a book on London I picked up from a secondhand shop over Christmas.
Underground poster
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I’m interested in both typography and the London Underground albeit not an authority on either. I think the poster of Camden Town is amazing, both typographically and in graphic design terms.