#camberwell

[galina]

It must be spring 🥐🌼

[fontseeker]

This reddit brass type identification post is driving me nuts.

https://www.reddit.com/r/bookbinding/s/atEHNacXGF

I feel like this font is SO familiar. I was thinking one of the Zapf typefaces or mayyyybe a Goudy, but the capital i with the asymmetrically slanted top in their second image is SO distinctive. It almost looks like the 1 from Classic Roman, but Classic Roman’s N is completely different. And the bowls of the B are almost equal; Trajan, Cinzel, Cresci, and Pontif are close but all have Bs with smaller upper bowls than lower. Uh. Anyways. Any thoughts?

Somebody already mentioned it in the thread, but it's Camberwell (1950s/60s?). That "capital i with the asymmetrically slanted top" is actually the numeral 1: "REC1PE BOOK".

It was designed by John Corderoy (who died in 1971) and named after the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts (now Camberwell College of Arts), where he taught bookbinding.

There's no digital version of Camberwell; as far as I can tell it was only ever used on book covers. Corderoy also published a book, Bookbinding for Beginners (1967), where he describes how it's done:

[soapkaars]

Went outside to draw - this is an abandoned building that used to be the Camberwell Green Magistrate’s Court

Here are some pictures of it

[petermorsparkle]

[ceevee5]

NAN GOLDIN: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

Gagosian shows all 126 photos from Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, a landmark of contemporary art and cultural collaboration,

Off to London for the weekend. The agenda: this photography show; Tracy Emin at Tate Modern; going to the Imperial War Museum, first time in a long time. Two book stores to check out - LaLa Books in Camberwell; Common Ground at the top of Brick Lane. Any suggestions for food/art/hijinks welcome. Hijinks tried to auto correct as bikinis.

[snappingthewalls]

[melbournetrains]

uptown funk don't give it to ya

[travelling-my-little-pony]

October is a month when Blossomforth goes to look at ghost signs!

Ghost signs (or ghost adverts) are old signs, often hand painted, on buildings. The products they are advertising often don’t exist any more.

This ghost advert is in Camberwell, in London, England.