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Some people want to see the Pyramids of Egypt or the Liberty Statue... me, I want to visit the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum ! So, I need to post when I see on tweeter that they need to move soon... how can they move so much stuffs, heavy machine and giant letters... They need support from the design community !

 

If you do not know the place, a great DVD was made about it, you can see the trailer on youtube.

 

 

And some pictures found on the flickr :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So, again, support them, or check their amazing shop for type lovers...

 

 

I want to do this for a long time, but finaly prefer to keep it for the new Graphic exchange ;) I will share from time to time the thousand images of old paper, ephemera and other textures I have in my hard drive... I have " source" folder  where I store all these images, I jump into it when I start a new creation. Here come some of these images...

 

 

 

 

These are metal stencils, I love these items...

 

 

Now the site is online, I can go back to my usual posts ! Back on october 18th (read first post here), in Singapore, still guided by Yong, designer behind Somewhere Else. After visiting The gentlemen press letterpress and design studio, and have a nice lunch with the team, Yong bring us to a very nice street full of great shops : Yong Siak Street

 

 

We start with the amazing Books Actually, I could live in this shop ! As it said on front, it is a bookstore and a vintage bric-a-brac !!! Books and vintage objects everywhere !!! A must see !

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just at the side of it, is another designers shop, where I can get my fields notes books as I miss some: Stangelets. I also get a copy of the Singapore design magazine The design society journal there.

 

 

 

 

 

 

After these 2 shops, when went to visit Bureau, a creative studio... Graphic designers, but they also do a great line of furnitures...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We then enjoy a nice coffee... Thanks a lot Yong for this great day.