TypeChap on the Beauty of Decaying Typographic Signage

Website Typorn1 talks to Stephen ONeill about his photographs of found type, lettering, and signs, TypeChap:

“I’m always on the look out for the vernacular and spectacular, documenting beautiful old letters and signage before they disappear… Through my photographs I want to provide inspiration for designers, sign-writers and photographers to keep these wonderful old letterforms alive… It’s interesting to see how positively clients react to type. One very dry financial client I worked for, were totally sold on some letterpress ads (very much influenced by the great Alan Kitching) and it became their house style for about 3 or 4 years – something of a miracle in an industry swamped with weak stock imagery”