Last week, I noticed this war monument* in the Kamppi cemetery, by the Old Church in Helsinki.  It is carved in a stark, forceful version of...

I continued to find new numerals  on my rambles through Helsinki. 

Look in the shady section, for the word KAHVILA in Jugenstil letters.   This brass sign is about 12 inches wide or 30 cm.   Looking...

Some 140 years ago,  Helsinki artists embraced Art Nouveau, known to them as Jugendstil. Many of these letters can still be seen on buildi...

I had just an hour to walk around Turku.  What a lovely city: but the only lettering I found was made of flowers.  And spray paint.  A gol...

House identification placque. This week I'm back in Helsinki for a revisit.  Last year I thought I found every last gorgeous letter ...

A few letters from my recent trip:  M  and S , in honor of, well, me.   If you squint at  O S O  (cropped from "El Coso" logo)...

I was lucky to meet Spanish calligrapher Juan Quiros in Valencia, and talk about freelancing, his life as a calligrapher, and the rich assor...

Valencia's architectural style offe rs a lot of ornamental iron work, along with a lot of tile (they even put decorative tile on the u...

W ell-chosen calligraphy helps add flavor to simple logos and signs.  Spain absorbed 800 years of Muslim influence on art, architecture, dre...

I saw these numbers recently on the streets of Spain.  The 17 at right is a particularly ornate example of the many tile numbers that desig...

I've started collecting examples of the letter A that have caught my eye on the streets of Valencia, Madrid, Segovia, and Toledo.  Here...