Category: Placemaking

Favorite Signs No. 1

We don’t have an Eiffel Tower or a Golden Gate Bridge, but Los Angeles does have one of the most famous signs in the world. First deployed in 1923 by a real estate developer as HOLLYWOOD LAND, the remaining sign of nine 45’ high letters is recognizable around the world… Read more »

Love Will Tear Us Apart

Anthony Wilson's Headstone

Here we find the marker for Anthony Wilson, the founder of Factory Records and such bands as New Order, Joy Division and The Fall. I may not be planning on a burial once I’ve departed this world but if I had a choice for the typography of my marker, Rotis would… Read more »