lettering/signage/type in the wild

Different Basque letters pulled from various signs around Bayonne, France

Mikelena

Piment D'Espelette A.O.P.

Cut wood sign

"Hotel Euzkadi

A. Darraidou"

Handpainted sign for some kind of bread in Basque Country

Children's School and neighborhood

Currently reading a book by two designers I really look up to:

Read a fantastic article this week on the origins of Basque typography and it's influences—

One of my favorites

Wire sign "Eskina"

The Basque symbol nicely incorporated into a house address

"Yes – I can’t just put things on a page. I find it very difficult to do that. Within the context of a book there are the other pages and elements that need to interrelate, so structure becomes important in unifying the thing. When I do posters there’s less reliance on it, and it’s more an organic arrangement of the words. I find those easier now than I used to."

—Phil Baines

Villa Espinal

Bayonne, France