59 High Street is the online home of illustrator Michelle Thompson and graphic designer Gareth Wild.
'Light Traffic Only' is the first in a series of homeware products featuring the typography found on white village sign posts. Older signs are cast in steel, later versions rivet individual metal letters onto wooden posts. The signs are slowly disappearing – they are vandalised, buried in hedges, destroyed in car accidents and inevitably replaced with their modern equivalent.
Find out more at www.59highstreet.com

Posted by Simon Lewin on July 9th, 2010