Fading Signs

A set of 8 postcards documenting fading typographic landscapes.

This is a collection of travel agency signs found around Athens, during our desired walks. Some don’t exist anymore, others are ghost signs for shut stores, and very few are still functioning. 

Apart from all being traces of a lost city and 
its commercial activity, they also share a sense of craft. Be it the way they follow the building’s facade, the spacing between type, or even the form 
of the letter itself.

On some, the Greek type 
borrows elements from the Latin alphabet, producing rare design statements awkward to the 
Greek eye, while on others, unused, dormant glyphs remind us of our native script traditions.

Whichever the case, vernacular typography holds a piece of Athenian history.