Helen final version

SIGNSSERIF

HELEN LIANG

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Editing and Design: Helen Liang Image credits: (list any additional information about photos or imagery you have used here if the information does not fit in your captions: use page numbers to reference images) Printed in Canada _______________________________

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Helen Liang, editor (Signs-Serif)/ Helen Liang ; COMD204-Project1 Type Safari.

ISBN 975-1-696359-81-7 (pbk.)

1. Student project. 2. Illustration and Communication Design--Classroom. Emily Carr University of Art + Design, host institution V. Title.

N8236.P35B83 2015 704.9’4933827282 C2013-903923-6

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HELVETICA NEO-GROTESQUE

A street sign standing in the Cliffrose Crescent in Coquitlam, BC. Sans-serif Condensed Low contrast “R” leg bented Upper case

Sans-serif Neither condensed/ extended Low contrast Flat Apex Heavy weight

02

Grange heavy condensed

Display A catchphrase found on a bus around Commercial Broadway Vancouver.

TAKE IT OUTSIDE TAKE IT OUTSIDE TAKE IT O TSIDE TAKE IT O TSIDE TAKE IT O TSIDE TAKE IT O TSIDE TAKE IT OUTSIDE TAKE IT OUTSIDE

This is a sign standing in Panorama Park in Coquitlam.

Ag Book

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Geometric Sans serif Condensed Low contrast Angled terminal Flat Apex Small Apertures Double-storey Uppercase R leg bented lower case e straight cross bar

04 Display Sans-serif Extended Low contrast Upper case R leg Straightened.

Bank Gothic

This word comes from the spectacular sign in Earls restaurant on Robson street , DT.

Molecul Bold Grotesque

05 sans-serif

Condensed

Low contrast Large Apertures Double-storey Lower case e straight cross bar

a trafďŹ c sign stand in the Trans-Canada highway in Abbots-

Neo-grotsque Condensed Low contrast Small Apertures Upper case P lobe connected.

Straight cross bar lower case e.

06 found this sign hang on the wall of CF Richmond Center in Richmond.

Swiss 721 Std B ld Condensed

Past on the window of one of the stores on Granville street , Vancouver.

Grotesque

sans-serif low contrast

Small Apertures Double-storey straight crossbar Neither condensed/extended

Foundry Context Bold

07

Display san-serif center bar meets the verticle

autogate sans regular low condensed Small Apertures double-storey Straight crossbar neither condensed/extended

08

This is a piece of artwork hang in the Vancouver Art Gallery in Vancouver downtown.

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09

Neo-grotesque Sans-serif Condensed low contrast Flat Apex Loop connected upper case

Arial Narrow

A sign stand in front of Crystal Mall.

Helvetica Bold sans serif

Neither Condensed/ extended low contrast heavy height

Geometric

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This typeface came standing on Robson

from a trafďŹ c sign Drive in Coquitlam.

Helen (Zihe) Liang COMD204 Fall 2020 Instructor: Robin Mitchell Cranfield Emily Carr University of Art and Design