Category: Typography

Name Your Boat

Boat names

You don’t need to be a sailor to appreciate the wide variety of colorful names painted on the sterns of nearly all private boats. They come in a range of flavors from the poetic (Windsong, Pacific Tide) to the aggressively descriptive (Prowler, Island Hopper) to the girlfriend with two names… Read more »

Best-known Gateway in Los Angeles?

Santa Monica Pier Gateway

Okay, it’s really in Santa Monica. But as an entrance to a unique and energetic place — the pier — in a colorful seaside city, this 1940’s commercial archway has become an inadvertent regional icon.