Cover of the Port of Edinburgh’s official handbook for the year 1964. The stencil caps are modeled after Tea Chest, but with a small twist: unlike in the typeface, serifs are unbracketed. This is best visible in glyphs like E and T. The second typeface is Folio Light.

Cover with the title set in Broadway (ATF, 1927). The publisher info is given in custom drawn Art Deco caps.

From the 1937 official handbook to the Port of Leith, issued by the Leith Chamber of Commerce, and giving a description of the then busy harbour and docks that served Edinburgh and the Lothians. The handbook gives details of the infrastructure, services and sailings from Leith as well as the fishing port at adjacent Newhaven. It also lists various statistics as to the volume, origin and destination of the various cargoes handled by the port.

The cover with the old pre-1922 Burgh coat of arms retained and some ‘new and old’ typefaces!

Shown below is a rather fine aerial view of the harbour, docks and surrounding streets and railway lines of Leith, westwards along the Forth Estuary towards Newhaven and Granton. Needless to say all this has changed massively. After decades of decline and contraction – all the coal shipped from here, for example, via those railway sidings, had vanished and the Docks were almost moribund. In recent years it has become the site of much urban renewal and redevelopment with, for example, the old Royal Yacht now berthed here as a tourist attraction. Currently the Edinburgh tram system is being extended back into the area to help transport links for further development.

The title uses Ehmcke-Antiqua (Flinsch, 1908), which was cast by the Caslon foundry under the name Carlton.

I love this overprinted Bungee in Rumana Sayed’s exhibition, Don’t Be Denied.

This exhibition shows the work that Sayed produced during her residency at Out of the Blueprint in early 2017, much of it addressing the role of the word “nasty” in contemporary culture.

Bungee is used in the exhibition poster as well as in the exhibition itself, and it makes me happy to see it with the bold colors and unusual textures produced by the risograph machine (video here).