Video: A Typographic Tour of the City of London

Thank you for geeking out my Sunday evening. The style is really brilliantly late-seventies Open University/Channel 4 educational programming, which suits the subject brilliantly. Well done.

That was great – a smashing bit of lunch-time viewing. Good work!

I’d love to see more about the Barbican estate. I discovered it myself whilst doing a London walkabout a couple of years ago, and am fascinated by it. In my head I have a great premise for 28 Months Later in which it is actually used as a fort … hmm … maybe I should call Danny Boyle …

Anyway, thanks for that little type treat!

Thanks for the ace comments.
Been stewing over this for a while.

Hey Dan, have you been watching Survivors?
I’m totally obsessed by that show at the moment.
I reckon Barbican residents would be pretty safe,
tucked away in their massive concrete towers.

Yeah, been watching Survivors. It’s pretty good, although I’m really hoping they unexpectedly kill of the mum-searching-for-son character: she just nags nags nags.

Hi Michael,

I’m writing from NYC (found your video here: http://binkythedoormat.com/post/64967030/boicos-typographic-tour-of-the-city-of-london); this is a blast to watch! Loved your photos (I think New York has a lovely typographic variety and texture, but London looks damn snappy and I remain rather envious) and I learned quite a bit. Do make more!

Lovely project. Thanks.

Very lovely work Mr B, and perhaps even ‘blog-videoingly’ breaking new ground? As someone mentioned above, nicely warm, retro and knowledgable. I feel like I should go and put an old cardigan on and watch it again. More please. (PS. Grotesque No. 9 is one of the greats).

This is an awesome video Michael. Please make another! Thanks for making my day!

We’re obsessed by fonts at Metrotwin (a community site that treats London and New York as a single place). I embedded this on our blog (http://blog.metrotwin.com) where we’ve recently covered the fonts used not only on the site to represent London and NYC (you guessed ‘em!) but also some interesting stuff about the tube/transit systems and their typefaces. This is is supremely GEEK. We love it! Tim

Heya Tim
Thanks for the ace comment even though I get the impression that I am now inadvertently helping advertise BA. BTW Typegeeks say Typefaces not Fonts… (font being a singular unit of a larger entity). Someone correct me if I’m wrong.

This is fantastic, Michael! I’d like to see type enthusiasts in cities around the world do the same. With design becoming more and more homogeneous it’s vital to preserve what makes each locale unique.

This was especially interesting for me to see, as I’ll make my first ever visit to London Jan. 24-29. Let me know if you’re available to get a “pint”, as you Brits say.

On “typeface” versues “font”: the typeface is what you see, the font is what you use. More.

Absolute brill. Thanks for this esacape!

Found this via Acejet and really enjoyed it, I liked that it was so informative and opinionated. And amazing access to Golden Lane – you must have someone on the inside. More like this please!