From Thomas Lieser’s Flickr photostream. Check out his Closing Time album, an outstanding collection of shop fronts mostly from Vienna — sometimes nostalgic, sometimes dystopian.
Flash was designed by Enric Crous-Vidal and released by Fonderie Typographique Française in 1953. Digital versions include Flash ND (Neufville), Tim Ryan’s French Caps (Type Revivals, 1995), and Ralph M. Unger’s Flashes (profonts, 2006).