Some trees outside:

A square:

A bin:

A train passing by:

Esthetically pleasing lights in a café:

A mosaic:

The Italian embassy’s plaque is just beautiful:

Just like this no-smoking plaque:

A bricky side-street:

Attractive stones:

Elaborately decorated gates:

A manhole:

A logo taking good advantage of the arc:

Air Albania’s logo taking good advantage of its country’s flag 🇦🇱

Wayfinding in the airport:

A foldable table in a train:

Typography:

Eighties’ typefaces:

A logo:

Bus route list. Notice the moon in the night bus logos:

Road signs:

No dogs. Look at how pretty the arrows on the ground are:

No fishing:

A building:

Yes we are:

A fire hydrant:

Manholes:

Tiling:

The lake:

Ducks in the lake:

A monument:

A bench:

Another bench:

Greenery:

The most good-looking public toilet that I have ever seen:

I have no idea what this is, but I like the constructivism:

Villa La Grange:

Majestic grass:

Majestic tree:

Sheep:

Stones on papers:

Yet another bench:

A light:

Having arrived in the UK for the first time in three and a half years, I recorded my first feelings:

Notice how the Tube train’s buttons are on the doors’ edges rather than next to each other in the middle:

The waffle marking usually applied on road intersections extends to train-station platforms:

Good London wayfinding extends to its Transport Museum:

Parking sign:

Plaque in South-East London:

The classic Westminster street name plaque. Nice bricks, too!

Sale Place:

Two gorgeous plaques next to each other:

English heritage:

The man is turning into an octopus:

The exciting and thrilling danger of death:

Crooked Billet Yard. I’m not making these names up!

Air quality monitoring:

Nice little square:

Greenery in a street:

Vitsœ store:

London shops don’t just sell things. They are places where people come for an experience:

Novelty Automation is home to fun and unique arcade machines:

As well as to a beautiful plaque:

And this marvellous request. (Boycott banks into irrelevance):

The wall subconsciously tells us that this is a cinema:

London’s other side:

Beware of tailgaters:

Hats repurposed into lamps at Luton Airport:

My other photos, videos, and audio recordings of London:
Oat drink ads
Canada geese
Thameslink voice announcement

Previously published on Subreply

People wanted to write faster, so they created minuscule letters with simpler ducts. This happened before typefaces were conceptualised.

The first printed typeface was gothic, then came the Roman.

Cursive typefaces were just that, and not variations on regular ones.

Bologna is home to many cicadas. They are everywhere: in the parks, next to homes, and in the city centre:

Plaques:

Plants:

A plaque next to a plant:

A sarracenia purpurea:

Picture added on Dec 2, 2021

Architecture:

A university:

Happy students:

Typographic and illustrative peculiarities:

Neon lights:

A canal:

A shoemaker:

A pointed stick:

A ticket-selling machine inside a bus:

Posters by tram-hating snollygosters:

This view on the way to Milan:

I visited Milan many times over the years. But July 2019 was the first time that I actually enjoyed it there.

The Sforzesco castle is the precursor to the Moscow Kremlin:

Nice concrete:

These plaques remind me of Big Sur icons:

Tall orange typeface and fun yellow ceiling:

I like to swim in lakes, not seas. But the Mediterranean Sea in Cap d’Ail is an exception:

Limestone, ceramics, typography:

A round stone:

Esthetically pleasing seashells:

Nice wall and house:

Interesting plant:

Cactii:

Flowers:

Nature is beautiful:

Suzdal is the most beautiful Russian town that I’ve been to so far.

Oomph:

Windmills:

The frozen Kamenka river:

Functionalist bus stop:

Trypophobes, beware:

A tower looks like a blobfish:

Shiny Soviet lighting:

Nice chair: