Grande Albergo Plaza Menu

Grande Albergo Plaza Menu. Rome, Italy

This menu card is from one of the dinners my grandparents attended with their tour group in Italy. I have always been attracted to combinations of script and sans serif fonts. 

Postcards: France

Palace of Versailles, France 

My grandparents traveled all around the world and during their holidays my grandmother collected postcards, photographs, and other various souvenirs illustrating the landmarks they visited. Here my grandparents can be seen with their tour group standing in front of the Palace of Versailles, Île-de-France. The woman wearing sunglasses and a scarf around her head standing behind and to the left of the man kneeling down is my grandmother Johnny and the man standing to the left of her is my grandfather Murray. I like examining photographs of large groups of people, especially when most all of them are total strangers to me and they are looking directly at the camera. I like to make up my own conclusions as to who they are and what types of lives they lead based on the expressions and their body language. I like this image because the group of people bleed right off the page, as if the photographer had no clue how to compose a photograph of a crowd. I also like its poor quality and sepiatone. Sepiatone images always look like they were taken from someone's imagination or dream.

Postcards: Italy

Fountain of Trevi, Rome 

Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II, Rome

I like these two postcards because of the lush Kodak Ektachrome color. The photos look as if they are paintings and have an overall ethereal appeal.

Postcards: Monaco

Principauté de Monaco, a game room of the Monte-Carlo Casino

I really like the greens, pinks, and yellows of the Ekatachrome colors and the overall painterly appearance of the photograph. 

Bei-yuan Restaurant Menu

Menu front

Menu inside open

Menu back open

Postcards: China

Causeway Road, Hong Kong

Night scene with Jumbo Floating Restaurant, Aberdeen, Hong Kong

A scene from Hong Kong Festival, Tsim Sha Tsai, Kowloon

Day scene with Jumbo Floating Restaurant, Aberdeen, Hong Kong

Heini Fischer

Heini Fischer (Switzerland, Egerkingen 1921-) 

1952, city-druck ag, Zurich. 128 x 90.5 cm, Switzerland

I like the structured typography in this poster and the overprinting letters. I also like how the arm holding the pipe interrupts the composition for the viewer's attention.