{"id":39031,"date":"2011-02-17T17:17:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T17:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jordanhthonextract2.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/17\/signs"},"modified":"2011-09-23T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T04:00:00","slug":"signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/signs\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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No, not the odious M. Night Shyamalan movie (“My son leaves half-empty glasses of water around! And these mimes in leotards are harmed by water\u2014that must be why they came to Earth, a planet that’s 80% water! It’s a miracle that restores my faith!”<\/i> ) but my own photographs of signs I like. I’ve been interested in typography and design all my life and I’ve always been intrigued by older, largely-handmade signs that embody an advanced understanding of form, color, proportion and typographical beauty (even if the signmakers are just reproducing the trends of the day).<\/p>\n

I started assembling these pictures a while ago, Photoshopping them only so as to remove the linear perspective from the original photographs and make everything rectilinear (and to remove the surrounding material). I started doing this in black-and-white but I just re-did the whole thing in color and it’s definitely good-looking that way. (I’ve got a bunch more that I haven’t finished yet; this is very much a “work in progress.”) I’d be interested in any opinions on color vs. black and white (or on anything else).<\/p>\n

Black and white: http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/signs<\/a> <\/p>\n

Color: http:\/\/www.jordanorlando.com\/ns\/signs_color<\/a> <\/p>\n

And oh yeah…spoiler warning on Signs.<\/i> Just think: You could have had your mind blown by the incredible half-empty glasses of water that the leotard-clad mimes are susceptible to (Who would have guessed?<\/i>), and now I’ve gone and ruined it.<\/p>\n