As old businesses close and new ones move in, neighborhoods are losing their visual identities. But now they can have signs that stay true to the neighborhood’s roots. On her commute home from work in ...

A shop sign in Venice, Italy (all photos by Molly Woodward from her Vernacular Typography project) One of the most overlooked design casualties of global homogenization is regional lettering. The ...

Perched on a stool in his dusty workshop in Macao, Lam Weng Io looks like a scholar or a librarian, bespectacled and in deep concentration. With steady hands, he carefully guides a sheet of red ...