Letterpool
Letterpool London is looking for your photos names, signage, signals and street art of London for a new book. The closing date for entries 20 August 2010. Enter online at – www.letterpool.com
Letterpool London is a mass public art project; a celebration of the city’s urban art and architecture, looked at through its typography – the brands, graffiti, instructions and ideology around us every day. London has a rich, diverse and exciting design heritage, reflected all around us. It’s in the signs and signals we take for granted and the unseen art and graffiti of the back streets; the familiar, iconic brands and the unnoticed historical lettering we see if we just look up or down. They are the words that created our city’s unique identity. Letterpool London is open to amateurs and professionals.
If you want a few ideas, they’ve published their Liverpool version of the project – you can see the final result at letterpool.com/liverpool. The initial competition captured the imagination of photographers across the city, revealing the seen and unseen city in a 204 page book, but the capital city London must have the potential to be even bigger and better. The project has already won a Gold at the Fresh Creative Awards, a Gold at the Roses Advertising Awards, and attracted national press coverage, including the BBC, METRO, Design Week, The Drum, Computer Arts and .NET Magazine. Now it’s London’s turn. They’ll be putting the best entries up on the site very soon and the very very best will wind up together in another gorgeous, chunky coffee table book, which they’ll be launching alongside an exhibition of the winners’ work late 2010.
If you want to submit your photos hurry up as it’s all over by late August! Pre-order the book here.
