A new column and my geekiest design confession to date… I collect photos of numbers. There, I said it. Given that this blog is called ‘confessions of a design geek,’ I thought it was about time to come clean and share some of them with you. These three (from top to bottom) are from South East London, somewhere in Cornwall and the Bodmin steam railway.
When I started my collection, about ten years ago, I lived in a tiny flat so didn’t have the space to collect anything physical. Collecting photos of things seemed like a good solution. I love typography, but that seemed like too broad a topic, so to narrow it down, I started collecting photos of numbers. (Even I appreciate quite how geeky that all sounds!)
So, every Friday afternoon from now on, you can look forward to a little bit of typographical geekiness.
(Thank you to Ian Barnard for the fabulous Polaroid templates.)
Wonderful geekery. I love it!
Thank you Rebekah!
I was quite nervous – this is my first new column since I structured my posts into columns – it’s so lovely to get a positive comment so quickly!
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I love it! I do too! I’ve got a cracking 23…
Becky
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Oooh – I’m going to have to work out somewhere can collect everybody’s numbers!
Thanks for the comment!
I went on honeymoon to Venice two years ago and came home with about 200 photos of Venetian door numbers, crumbling plaster and all! Lovely!
Wow – they sound amazing! How exciting!
Geek alert!
this made me think of the quick edit segment of the Olympics Opening Ceremony where they counted down from 60secs with photos of London numbers (door numbers, bus numbers, street signs etc).
watch it here in case you missed it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vX8yKNf7DY&feature=related
I know, right?! I LOVED that bit!
Wonderful.
My other half collects photographs of those giant ice cream cones you see outside seaside shops and kiosks. He’s also a bit obsessed with photographing manhole covers.
Fantastic!
(I have a few collections of photos of other things too… not quite ready to confess all yet!)
Fabulous I love these!!!
I’ve been collecting photos of paving and cobble arrangements. Not such an interest series of posts xx