Member soh… Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 This topic was imported from the Typophile platform here's a fun one! i'm getting ready to move into a new, snazzy, downtown apartment, and i'll be having a blast decorating it. I LOVE LETTERS and fonts. does anyone have any ideas about how to decorate with letters? i know it sounds silly, but i would love to have letters (beautiful ones, of course) on the walls or on the shelves or all over the place? hmmm.... the possibilities are endless. Link to comment
Member dez… Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 Look at foundry web sites to see if they have posters and other items for sale using their type. You can always get huge blowups of your favorite glyphs made as posters or even wall paper. ChrisL Link to comment
Member nmo… Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 When I was in college I went through a phase like that as well. I was obsessed with hand cut lettering used on store fronts and once off signage jobs for building sites. So under the cover of darkness I would visit such places where typographic niceties were to be found and i would, ahem, 'borrow them'. Over the years I built up a pretty impressive collection and had the whole house decorated. It became a kind of phenomenon here in Ireland - every student seemed to be doing it (borrowing them I mean - I'm sure they did not have the same appreciation for letters as I did) and it even made the news on TV and National press etc. It was a slow news week. But I've grown up now and no longer condone such activity :( Link to comment
Member alu… Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 You can find woodtype letters without too much trouble. A quick ebay search found this:http://cgi.ebay.com/HUGE-WOODTYPE-LETTER-Y_W0QQitemZ290067910176QQihZ019...http://cgi.ebay.com/Wood-Letterpress-Type-Number-4-2-5_W0QQitemZ20006442...http://cgi.ebay.com/Letterpress-WOOD-Type-2-ALPHABET-30pcs-SUPERB-PATINA... (hmm...that last one looks real nice...) Also, lots of salvage places will have stacks of assorted letters from old signage and the like. Link to comment
Member Gus… Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 I googled using terms such as "wall hanging letters," "furniture letters," "decorating letters," "decorative letters," "wood letters," "plastic letters," "neon letters," "stuffed letters," and "plush letters" and got a lot of potentially useful results. Also, most hardware stores (e.g., Ace, OSH, Home Depot, Lowes) carry wood, metal, or decal letters meant to be used for house addresses that you could adapt to other uses. Unicahome.com has some glow-in-the-dark letters and numbers that look like building blocks. Link to comment
Member tim… Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 https://typography.guru/forums/topic/38118-forwarding Tables of type. Tim Link to comment
Member Gro… Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 Neutrafacehttp://www.customhousenumbers.com/neutraface/ And there was that british company who sold smaller letters. They were on Typographi.ca. Stephen? Link to comment
Member Qui… Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 Make your own typographic compositions, and go somewhere where you can let those be cut out on a large plotter. So that you end up having large stickers of letters, that you can stick on your wall. Like they sometimes do in museums and such. If you know what I mean. Link to comment
Member beg… Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 ooh! you could make some compositions on a computer, borrow a projector and project them onto your walls, then trace and paint them. this way you could try out lots of stuff and see more or less how it will look (projecting it) before you have to commit (painting it). it would be cool to see some pictures when you're done. jarrod Link to comment
Member Lin… Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 Or for an apartment that you can't alter the walls, you could do the same thing onto fabric and turn it into curtains. (That would make for an interesting shower curtain, actually....) Link to comment
Member tim… Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 https://typography.guru/forums/topic/31261-forwarding https://typography.guru/forums/topic/16368-forwarding Bit of DIY Tim Link to comment
Member Jac… Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 Fun - how Mary Tyler Moore (and Rhoda) of you... My neighbor's last name starts with the letter S - and found a 3 foot wooden S - she has put it on the wall of her kitchen - and it looks great! Link to comment
Member Blu… Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 From Pentagram: http://blog.pentagram.com/archives/2006/02/new_work_knoll.php#more http://www.knoll.com/news/hstory.jsp?story_id=3797&type=Press%20Releases... Abbott Miller and his team have designed the Grammar Collection, a new series of wallcoverings for KnollTextiles. The three patterns are based on overlapping typography. “This is an appropriate theme for any room where there is conversation,” says Abbott. Link to comment
Member Lin… Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 But they aren't letters, unfortunately. We're not that far from a local dealer -- I'm tempted to pop in and see them up close and personal.... Link to comment
Member tam… Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 http://www.timelesstreasuressf.com/ Joan O'Connor runs this shop, and it's full of letters and cool type-related trinkets, including lots of antique and rare bits. Link to comment
Member tim… Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 http://www.stencil-library.com/docs/cat132.htm Tim Link to comment
Member doj… Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 Have a look at this:http://www.inscrire.com/index.php?navi=content&npoint=1,0,0,0 The station Concorde has the best 'typographic' decor I have seen in my life. I designed a friend's bathroom based on the same principle. Tiles with letters in different colours can be procured cheaply. I then found a text I wrote on her walls with the tiles. No space, no punctuation (hard to find): I used different colours for different words. http://perso.orange.fr/reseau.nord-sud/Concorde-it.htm If what you want is to choose yor own type though, you can make images in Photoshop or else, of the letters/words you want, and get them printed and framed professionnally. Link to comment
Member uml… Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 www.woodtype.org/items_for_sale.shtml Link to comment
Member The… Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 What makes your spam interesting? Moderator, please remove. TIA. Link to comment
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