2015-03-30T16:15:00-05:00 Critiques of signage and typography in the Toronto Transit Commission tag:ttc-signs,2015:hellfrozeover Joe Clark 2015-03-30T16:15:00-05:00 2015-03-30T16:16:00-05:00 tag:ttc-signs,2015:T2015-update Hell freezes over: I did some paid work for the TTC on signage. Also, I am publishing the TTC signage manual Joe Clark 2008-09-21T14:44:00-05:00 2008-09-21T14:44:00-05:00 tag:ttc-signs,2008:T2008-reminiscent Somebody tell that tenured metrosexual Mark <del>Queen</del>Kingwell that the TTC font isn’t remotely “<a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080919.wsubwaystory/BNStory/specialTravel/?pageRequested=all" title="Underground tourism">reminiscent of</a>” Gill Sans or Transport. What letter was he comparing, the <cite>O?</cite> Joe Clark 2008-04-09T11:44:00-05:00 2008-04-09T11:44:00-05:00 tag:ttc-signs,2008:T2008-unveil And closing up shop Joe Clark 2008-03-25T09:05:00-05:00 2008-03-25T09:05:00-05:00 tag:ttc-signs,2008:T2008-faute <p>The original tile design of the TTC, now 50 years old, was “<a href="http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2008/03/24/farewell-to-the-ttc-s-bathroom-motif.aspx" title="Farewell to the TTC's ‘bathroom’ motif?">a mistake</a>.” Who says? Adam Giambrone, age 29. </p> <p> I see I was right all along. </p> Joe Clark 2008-03-23T12:51:00-05:00 2008-03-23T12:51:00-05:00 tag:ttc-signs,2008:T2008-laststand TTC staff are trying to get permission to destroy and renovate all but six subway stations any way they want. As such, they’re trying to do an end run around the Toronto Preservation Board. Read how <a href="http://joeclark.org/design/signage/TTC/diversify/" title="TTC plans to “diversify” – and destroy – its heritage">TTC plans to “diversify” – and destroy – its heritage</a>. Joe Clark 2008-02-01T15:13:01-05:00 2008-02-01T15:13:01-05:00 tag:ttc-signs,2008:T2008-vicparkfeb6a There’s <a href="http://insidetoronto.com/printArticle/40078" title="Open house outlines renovation of Victoria Park subway station">a public meeting about the proposed renovations to Vic Park on February 6</a>. Want to go? We could arrive as a posse. Joe Clark 2008-02-01T15:13:00-05:00 2008-02-01T15:13:00-05:00 tag:ttc-signs,2008:T2008-baycumberland1 I’ll be setting up individual pages for Endangered Stations later, but for now, look at my <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joeclark/sets/72157603803082248/" title="Bay station Cumberland exit">Flickr set of photos from the Cumberland exit at Bay station</a>. According to documents I have, every sign you see there will be <em>removed and destroyed</em> and replaced with fake Helvetica. (There will also be a new pylon sign outside in yet another slightly new variation.) I asked the architects whose names were on the drawings if I had correctly identified those signs, but of course there was no response. So I’m taking that as a yes. Joe Clark 2008-02-01T15:12:59-05:00 2008-02-01T15:12:59-05:00 tag:ttc-signs,2008:T2008-museum-explica Just what it says. Joe Clark 2008-01-23T16:33:00-05:00 2008-01-23T16:33:00-05:00 tag:save-ttc,2008:T2008-notkitsch <p> <a href="http://www.eyeweekly.com/city/scrollingeye/article/15860" title="Museum makeover">Story</a> on the Museum débâcle (<em>not</em> “kitsch”) by esteemed colleague Weisblott. </p> Joe Clark 2008-01-21T17:33:00-05:00 2008-01-21T17:33:00-05:00 tag:save-ttc,2008:T2008-jan21 <ul> <li><p> Large update to <a href="http://joeclark.org/design/signage/TTC/2007/#letter" title="TTC Signs: Year 1">Year 1 in review</a>. </p> </li> <li><p> “<a href="http://joeclark.org/design/signage/TTC/docs/kitsch.html" title="‘Kitsch’ as applied to Pape and Museum station renovations">Kitsch</a>” as applied to Pape and Museum station renovations (for real). </p> </li> <li><p><a href="http://joeclark.org/design/signage/TTC/docs/crayons.html" title="Request for higher standard of drafting in TTC station renderings">Request for higher standard of drafting in TTC station renderings</a> so they won’t look like they were drawn in crayon.</p> <ul> <li> <p>And on that topic, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joeclark/tags/papeaugust2007rendering/" title="Flickr: August 2007 rendering">new renderings of the signage and tile destruction at Pape</a>:</p> <div class="splorpist"> <img src="http://joeclark.org/design/signage/TTC/images/TTC_Sign-PapeRendering-Aug2007-45degree.jpg" alt="Station with deep-blue ceiling, huge cream tiles, blue strapline near the roof, and the word PAPE on a wall at a 45° angle in blue Helvetica"> </div> <div class="splorpist"> <img src="http://joeclark.org/design/signage/TTC/images/TTC_Sign-PapeRendering-elevator.jpg" alt="Station with deep-blue strapline with white PAPE letters, huge cream tiles, and a recessed elevator"> </div> </li> </ul> </li> <li><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joeclark/2183726008/" title="Flickr: Rendering from Vic Park">Rendering from Vic Park</a>: Note the baby-blue “tiles” and absurd angle of signage (which doesn’t even face the train)</p> <div class="splorpist"> <img src="http://joeclark.org/design/signage/TTC/images/TTC_Sign-VicParkRendering-Nov2006.jpg" alt="Station with powder-blue tiles, a person in a wheelchair leaving an elevator, and a sign with the off-angle word VICTORIA"> </div> </li> <li><p>Many more photos of Museum station, including <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joeclark/tags/throughthekeyhole/" title="Flickr: Pictures taken through the keyhole">two taken through the keyhole in the work area</a>:</p> <div class="splorpist"> <img src="http://joeclark.org/design/signage/TTC/images/TTC_Sign-Museum-keyhole2-500.jpg" alt="Enclosed work area has some covered and some uncovered caryatids and a workman crouching on the floor"> </div> <div class="splorpist"> <img src="http://joeclark.org/design/signage/TTC/images/TTC_Sign-Museum-keyhole1-500.jpg" alt=""> </div> </li> </ul> Joe Clark 2008-01-01T15:16:00-05:00 2008-01-01T15:16:00-05:00 tag:save-ttc,2008:T2008-y1 The only people who don’t support me are the people who have the ability to do what I want. Joe Clark 2007-12-19T12:20:00-05:00 2007-12-19T12:20:00-05:00 tag:save-ttc,2007:T2007.12.03-not-hw <a href="http://joeclark.org/design/signage/TTC/Museum/" title="The rape of Museum station">A new page just for Museum station</a>, with proof these people <a href="http://joeclark.org/design/signage/TTC/Museum/letterspacing.html" title="The latest reason not to use CorelDraw">still don’t know how to letterspace their own type</a> even after admitting they screwed it up on the Sheppard line. Joe Clark 2007-12-03T14:44:00-05:00 2007-12-03T14:44:00-05:00 tag:save-ttc,2007:T2007.12.03-not-hw1 <p> Three items for you. </p> <ol> <li><a href="http://joeclark.org/design/signage/TTC/docs/handwritten.html" title="Handwritten signs are not the problem">Handwritten signs are not the problem</a>: Response to TTC <a href="http://www.ttc.ca/postings/gso-comrpt/documents/report/f3427/Replacement_of__Handmade_Signage_Staff_Response.pdf" title="PDF: Replacement of Handmade Signage Staff Response">report (PDF)</a> on handwritten signs</li> <li>Proposal for a <a href="http://joeclark.org/design/signage/TTC/docs/Union-design.html" title="Union station design competition">design competition for Union Station</a></li> <li>Proposal to <a href="http://joeclark.org/design/signage/TTC/docs/metal-signplates.html" title="Inexpensive, practicable typographic improvement for the Yonge line">upgrade some Yonge-line stations</a> with new steel plates for station identification</li> </ol> Joe Clark 2007-11-20T16:40:00-05:00 2007-11-20T16:40:00-05:00 tag:save-ttc,2007:T2007.11.20-lands-of-don They painted the letters on the walls of Donlands station. Joe Clark 2007-11-17T17:14:00-05:00 2007-11-17T17:14:00-05:00 tag:save-ttc,2007:T2007.11.17-eb-zeid <ol> <li><a href="http://joeclark.org/design/signage/TTC/docs/Glencairn-LawrenceWest.html" title="Two stations that need to be rebuilt">Proposal</a> to tear down Glencairn and Lawrence West stations and replace them with something as beautiful as Dupont (yes)</li> <li><a href="http://joeclark.org/design/signage/TTC/docs/MuseumResponse.html" title="The wrong kind of response about Museum station">Response</a> to my call for cancellation of the Museum Renaissance project (guess what they said; then guess how they said it)</li> </ol> Joe Clark 2007-11-15T00:50:00-05:00 2007-11-15T00:50:00-05:00 tag:save-ttc,2007:T2007.11.15-oeil <p>...this time about the Toronto Preservation Board and its “collision course with the TTC.” Juicy quotes from Adam Vaughan (emphasis added): </p> <blockquote cite="http://www.eyeweekly.com/city/features/article/9458"> <p> <ins class="ed">[The TTC acts like it is]</ins> too cheap to be special... The old subway stations were beautiful, and they found their own economy. It’s the roots of the wealthiest transit system in the world in terms of being able to generate passengers and off-peak passengers.... That finds its roots in the attention to detail of the earlier generations who used to run it.... </p> <p> When we built the subway, we built it as one big project. That in and of itself is what the design of the subway speaks to – [a time] when we had the confidence and the ability and the vision to build infrastructure the size and the scope of the Bloor subway line. That’s an amazing mindset compared to what we have today, where if we’re really lucky we could add a station and if we do, it should just be bare concrete because everyone will think we’re rich if we do it any other way. We didn’t just sort of go to a computer and print some signs, <em>we designed a friggin’ typeface</em> </p> </blockquote> Joe Clark 2007-11-10T15:59:00-05:00 2007-11-10T15:59:00-05:00 tag:save-ttc,2007:T2007.11.10-tpb I did in fact address the Toronto Preservation Board yesterday, and <a href="http://joeclark.org/design/signage/TTC/TPB/" title="Presentation to Toronto Preservation Board">I got exactly what I wanted</a>: They’re planning to designate all the stations currently slated for renovations, the Bloor-Danforth line, and the Yonge-University line from St. George to Eglinton as heritage properties. This may not have enormous practical effect, but it’s still important. Joe Clark 2007-11-08T13:43:00-05:00 2007-11-08T13:43:00-05:00 tag:save-ttc,2007:T2007.11.08-now-tpb <ul><li> OK, <a href="http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2007-11-08/news_story5_p.html" title="Out on the tiles (sic)">press coverage in <cite>Now</cite></a> (p. 26 in the print version). I can assure you I am not, nor was I, quite that ungrammatical. But still. </li> <li> I am supposedly addressing the Toronto Preservation Board tomorrow, 2007.11.09, at 15:10 hours for exactly five minutes. Apparently some poor sap from the TTC (not the one person who really knows the file) will be stuck defending its official position of knocking down walls, destroying signs, and typographic ethnic cleansing (all fake Helvetica all the time). </li> </ul> Joe Clark 2007-11-01T14:53:00-05:00 2007-11-01T14:53:00-05:00 tag:save-ttc,2007:T2007.11.01-videos1 Video from my presentation at ATypI <a href="http://www.river-valley.tv/conferences/atypi_brighton2007/" title="ATypI Brighton 2007">is now posted</a> (see <a href="http://blog.fawny.org/2007/11/01/atypivids/" title="Video from ATypI">blog</a>). Joe Clark 2007-10-31T13:50:00-05:00 2007-11-01T13:17:00-05:00 tag:save-ttc,2007:T2007.10.31-tttt-lw Our second tour of TTC typography and tiles happens this <strong>Sunday</strong>, November <strong>4</strong>, at <strong>1400</strong> hours exactly at <strong>Lawrence West</strong> station (get it right). Itinerary: Lawrence West, Dupont, <ins>Museum,</ins> St. Patrick, Osgoode, Rosedale, Bayview, and Eglinton, then coffee Joe Clark 2007-10-22T13:24:00-05:00 2007-10-25T17:24:00-05:00 tag:save-ttc,2007:T2007.10.22-tttt-vp <div> <img src="http://joeclark.org/design/signage/TTC/images/TTTT-600.jpg" alt="Close-ups of four letter Ts from subway stations"> </div> <p>I’m hosting a tour of Bloor-Danforth TTC stations. We‘ll look at priceless old typography, unique tiles, and the TTC’s crappy and half-arsed replacements for both. Starts at <strong>Victoria Park station (new!)</strong> next Sunday, October 28, at 1400 hours sharp.</p> Joe Clark 2007-10-18T15:43:00-05:00 2007-10-18T15:43:00-05:00 tag:save-ttc,2007:T2007.10.19-updates2 <ul> <li><a href="http://joeclark.org/design/signage/TTC/docs/inforequests1.html" title="Results from TTC information requests">Results of several information requests</a>: Did you know they want to spend $300,000 destroying every sign in Pape station and replacing it with fake Helvetica on plastic? (Did you know they actually are using their fake Helvetica legally?)</li> <li><a href="http://joeclark.org/design/signage/TTC/docs/inventory-pitch.html" title="Original proposal for TTC signage inventory ">My original proposal</a> to conduct an inventory of signage categories, which TTC simply ignored.</li> </ul> Joe Clark 2007-09-29T17:03:00-05:00 2007-09-29T17:03:00-05:00 tag:save-ttc,2007:T2007.09.29-ongpin This one was somewhat buried, so here’s a bigger pitch: Ontario College of Art and Design student José Ongpin has concisely encapsulated 50 years of typographic history in four information-dense illustrations, <a href="http://joeclark.org/appearances/atypi/2007/TTC/inscribed/Ongpin-TTC.pdf" title="PDF: TTC type history" type="application/pdf">republished (PDF)</a> by permission. Joe Clark 2007-09-20T00:34:00-05:00 2007-09-20T16:51:00-05:00 tag:save-ttc,2007:T2007.09.20-oeil-hebdomadaire <ul><li><p> Well, “Inscribed in the Living Tile” seems to be going over fine. Something like <a href="http://digg.com/design/Type_in_the_Toronto_Subway" title="Digg coverage">870 Diggs</a>, a good reception <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/64754/Type-in-the-Toronto-Subway" title="Type in the Toronto subway">on MetaFilter</a>, and <a href="http://www.eyeweekly.com/eye/issue/issue_09.20.07/city/news_2.php" title="The TTC’s writing on the wall">a nice piece</a> by Ed Keenan in <cite>Eye Weekly</cite> praising my “entertainingly deadpan prose.” </p> <p> I’m pleased. Now, one question: Has anyone at the TTC read it? (Another question: Has Steve Munro?) </p> </li> <li><p> Also: <a href="http://joeclark.org/design/signage/TTC/docs/dominate.html" title="The truth about station-domination advertising in the TTC">The truth about station-domination advertising in the TTC.</a> Did you know about one-third of people were always opposed to it? And that up to 13% of people think it interferes with signage? </p> </li> <li> <p> Oh, and another thing: If station domination is so noncontroversial, why were two special constables in place to protect these workmen as they papered over St. George? (One of the constables sat bored on a bench the whole time, the other simply shot the shit with the guys.) </p> <div id="StGeorge-vinyl-constables.jpg.img" class="splorpist"> <img src="http://joeclark.org/design/signage/TTC/images/StGeorge-vinyl-constables.jpg" alt="3M boxes sit on cart as a man in a safety vest tends to a white-and-red-covered column"> </div> </ul> Joe Clark 2007-09-16T10:14:00-05:00 2007-09-16T10:14:00-05:00 tag:save-ttc,2007:T2007.09.16-released Yes, it’s finally ready: “<a href="http://joeclark.org/appearances/atypi/2007/TTC/inscribed/" title="Inscribed in the Living Tile: Type in the Toronto Subway">Inscribed in the Living Tile</a>: Type in the Toronto Subway.” (Shorter version upcoming.) It’s 50 pages and 2 MB in size, so give it a while. Joe Clark 2007-09-14T21:44:00-05:00 2007-09-14T21:44:00-05:00 tag:save-ttc,2007:T2007.09.14-14ai Everything you ever wanted to know about TTC signage comes out on Sunday. In time for my (second) <a href="http://blog.fawny.org/2007/08/29/14atypi/" title="14 Days to ATypI">presentation</a> at <acronym>ATypI</acronym> Brighton, I’ll release the 50-page, 16,000-word, 50-image, 70-citation research paper, “Inscribed in the Living Tile.” More concise speaking notes from the conference will come along later. Joe Clark 2007-09-02T17:38:00-04:00 2007-09-02T17:38:00-04:00 tag:save-ttc,2007:T2007.09.02-14ai I’m giving a presentation at the <acronym>ATypI</acronym> conference in Brighton in two weeks on TTC signage. So let’s start a countdown: <a href="http://blog.fawny.org/category/events/atypi2007/14atypittc/" title="Blog category: 14 Days to ATypI: TTC">14 Days to <acronym>ATypI</acronym></a> (<a href="http://blog.fawny.org/2007/08/29/14atypi/" title="14 Days to ATypI">intro</a>). Joe Clark 2007-08-04T12:37:00-04:00 2007-08-04T12:37:00-04:00 tag:save-ttc,2007:T2007.08.04-fuck-you-alex <p> Toronto’s national newspaper has <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070804.SUBWAY04/TPStory/TPEntertainment/Ontario/" title="The once and future Museum station">deigned to notice the desecration of Museum station</a>. But, in an example of lazy journalism, <a href="http://AlexBozikovic.com" title="AlexBozikovic.com">Alex Bozikovic</a> calls up that old standby, Matt Blackett, for a quote. What the hell does he have to do with it? </p> <p> There’s no mention of the fact that the entire Museum reno is nothing more than a corporate tax dodge for the benefactors of the obscure Toronto Community Foundation. Jack Diamond’s quote essentially states that, unless a Toronto subway station is “like the art-nouveau Paris Metro or the London Underground,” every single station should and must be renovated “to give an impression of what’s happening above ground.” (Quick: What <em>would</em> Bessarion look like then? Greenwood?) We need wholesale gutting of that kind because the Bloor-Danforth line is a clone of the London Underground. Funny, I thought we were only cloning New York. </p> <p> There were, however, some spot-on remarks from architect Michael McClelland. And maybe because he’s out of town or something, we didn’t see a quote from another standby, Steve Munro, who, very much to his credit, opposes the whole misadventure. </p> <p> Now, I <em>am</em> the person – the only person – who filed a <a href="http://joeclark.org/design/signage/docs/TTC-TCF.html" title="Call for cancellation of Museum Renaissance">written call to cancel the Museum Renaissance</a>. I am the first two hits on Google for <kbd>"Museum Renaissance"</kbd>. I just finished writing three whole pages, for publication in September, on the true history of this misadventure. (In this context, the grande dame of the ROM, Bill Thorsell, used the word “miasma.” It goes downhill from there.) Not only was I not even asked for a quote, I have to sit here and read a story that gives Giambrone yet another opportunity to reiterate his corporate talking point about imposing Sheppard signage on everything, which <em>is the problem</em>. </p> <p> When I was writing for newspapers and magazines, <em>I</em> at least canvassed more than the usual suspects. </p> Joe Clark 2007-07-27T15:46:00-04:00 2007-07-27T15:46:00-04:00 tag:save-ttc,2007:T2007.07.27-13k-teaser I have finished a 13,000-word paper on type in the Toronto subway. You will, however, have to <a href="http://blog.fawny.org/2007/07/31/13k/" title="13,000">wait till September to read it</a>. Joe Clark 2007-07-25T18:33:00-04:00 2007-07-25T18:33:00-04:00 tag:save-ttc,2007:T2007.07.25-home-rahul Redesigned the <a href="http://joeclark.org/design/signage/TTC/" title="TTC Signs">homepage</a>. I’d wager you think that photograph is officially impossible to take. ¶ <a href="http://joeclark.org/design/signage/TTC/news/#T2007.07.23a" title="News for 2007.07.23">Also</a>, If the 26 Dupont bus is expendable, why aren’t these megaprojects expendable? Joe Clark 2007-07-19T17:03:00-04:00 2007-07-19T17:03:00-04:00 tag:save-ttc,2007:T2007.07.19-bbrent <p> Ed Keenan publishes an <a href="http://www.eyeweekly.com/daily/?p=649" title="Bob Brent interview">interview</a> with Bob Brent, the former TTC manager who oversaw the Sheppard signs: </p> <blockquote cite="http://www.eyeweekly.com/daily/?p=649"> <p> What’s really lacking really hit home to me when I was [at Sheppard station] in a wheelchair in 2005 unexpectedly – I didn’t know how to navigate out of the station. There are all of these elevators, well, which one do I take to get out of the station? They have a sign that tells you where you are and what’s upstairs, but you don’t have a little visual of the station. I was going to North York General Hospital and it took me a half hour to get out of the station.... <ins class="ed">[I]</ins> finally made my way out after half an hour. But I wasn’t very strong, I’d lost a lot of weight after a couple operations. So that was a real striking moment. </p> <p> And then a few months later I was going to a New Year’s Eve party and my friends were picking me up at the corner and it took me 15 minutes to get out with a walker. I couldn’t find an exit that would let me get out with a walker.</p> </blockquote> Joe Clark 2007-07-12T00:47:00-04:00 2007-07-12T23:53:00-04:00 tag:save-ttc,2007:T2007.07.16-writein Adam Giambrone told <cite>Eye Weekly</cite> that only I am complaining about the function of the Sheppard-style signs. Now that TTC seems to have agreed not to destroy any old signs, it’s time to call Giambrone’s bluff. What is <em>your</em> experience with how well the Sheppard-style signs <em>work</em>? <a href="http://joeclark.org/design/signage/TTC/activism/" title="How well do Sheppard-style signs work?">Write in with your comments.</a> Remember, this isn’t about looks, appearance, or æsthetics. Joe Clark 2007-07-12T00:47:00-04:00 2007-07-12T23:53:01-04:00 tag:save-ttc,2007:T2007.07.12ab <ul><li>Sympathetic <a href="http://www.eyeweekly.com/eye/issue/issue_07.12.07/city/news.php" title="Signs of dysfunction">article</a> by Ed Keenan in <cite>Eye Weekly</cite>. Highlight: Public documentation that the manager who oversaw the Sheppard-style signs can’t figure them out himself today. Lowlight: Wunderkind Giambrone’s passive-aggressive bitching that no complaints have been lodged about the Sheppard signs “except, of course, by Joe Clark.”</li> <li><a href="http://www.eyeweekly.com/daily/?p=615" title="TTC signage tour, part one: the handwriting is on the door">Part 1 and <a href="http://www.eyeweekly.com/daily/?p=619" title="TTC signage tour, part two: westbound streetcars from Bathurst?">Part 2</a> of Keenan’s extended megamix blog posting</a> based on our subway tour. </li></ul> Joe Clark 2007-07-11T16:15:00-04:00 2007-07-11T17:47:00-04:00 tag:save-ttc,2007:T2007.07.11a <ul><li><p> Barely anything happened at the TTC meeting today concerning signage. Except that if you wrote in expecting that your correspondence would be reprinted in the correspondence file, <em>it wasn’t</em>. </p> </li> <li><p> Also, see <a href="http://joeclark.org/design/signage/TTC/news/#T2007.07.10">yesterday’s fisking of various blog posts</a>, including Matt Blackett’s fantastically annoying premature declaration of victory on my behalf. </p> <li> <p> Tomorrow’s <cite>Now</cite> has an <a href="http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2007-07-12/news_cityinbrief.php" title="By George, we should save it">article</a> that describes the Paul Arthur signs as “failed” (then goes on to list their advantages) and gives the last word to Matt fucking Blacket. But it does offer the new information that Giambrone wants to hire a TTC archivist. </p> </li> <li> <p> <acronym><a href="http://joeclark.org/design/signage/TTC/about/FAQ/" title="FAQ">FAQ</a></acronym>. </p> </li> </ul> Joe Clark 2007-07-09T12:45:00-04:00 2007-07-09T12:45:00-04:00 tag:save-ttc,2007:T2007.07.09-lettres <ul><li> Two new <a href="http://joeclark.org/design/signage/TTC/docs/#TTC-letters" title="Letters to TTC">letters</a> filed with TTC – a <a href="http://joeclark.org/design/signage/TTC/docs/TTC-TCF.html" title="Call for cancellation of Museum Renaissance and redirection of TTC’s share of its cost into signage and wayfinding research">call for cancellation</a> of Museum Renaissance and redirection of TTC’s share of its cost into signage and wayfinding research and a <a href="http://joeclark.org/design/signage/TTC/docs/Webster-standard.html" title="Claims by Gary Webster and Adam Giambrone that the current TTC sign ‘standard’ is adequate">response</a> to claims by Gary Webster and Adam Giambrone that the current TTC sign “standard” is adequate. (Quick: What buses and streetcars run “westbound” from Bathurst?) </li> <li>Added a few details <a href="http://joeclark.org/design/signage/TTC/about/#header" title="About the page header">about the page header</a> and my upcoming <a href="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/199745/" title="TTC type presentation at ATypI Brighton">presentation</a> on TTC typography at the prestigious ATypI conference this September in Brighton. </li></ul> Joe Clark 2007-07-08T15:16:01-04:00 2007-07-08T15:16:01-04:00 tag:save-ttc,2007:T2007.07.08-newsb <ul><li> An editor from <cite>Now</cite> dropped me a line to tell me a stringer was covering the story. Oddly, I haven’t heard from her. He also tried to induce me to hand over my photos for free. </li> <li> New Flickr set on <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/joeclark/sets/72157600717834232/" title="Museum Renaissance: The TTC’s latest misadventure">the disastrous Museum Renaissance renderings</a>. </li> <li> I’ll be submitting letters to the TTC tomorrow that will also be posted here. </li> </ul> Joe Clark 2007-07-08T15:16:00-04:00 2007-07-08T15:16:00-04:00 tag:save-ttc,2007:T2007.07.08-newsa <ul> <li><a href="http://spacing.ca/wire/?p=2062" title="Pulling TTC attention towards its signs">Spacing Wire</a> & <a href="http://transit.toronto.on.ca/archives/weblog/2007/07/03-pulling_tt.shtml" title="Pulling TTC attention towards its signs">Transit Toronto</a></li> <li><a href="http://torontoist.com/2007/07/signing_out.php" title="Signing out of St. George">Torontoist</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.blogto.com/city/2007/07/fix_me_can_you_read_the_signs">Blog<acronym>TO</acronym></a></li> <li><a href="http://communities.canada.com/nationalpost/blogs/toronto/archive/2007/07/06/ttc-to-unveil-six-station-renos-next-week.aspx" title="TTC to unveil six station renos next week"><cite>Tubby</cite></a></li> </ul> Joe Clark 2007-07-04T13:56:00-04:00 2007-07-04T13:56:00-04:00 tag:save-ttc,2007:T2007.07.05-news OK, I have reason to believe within the next couple of days there will be Adequate Good News, and possibly in the medium term there will be Significant Good News. I’m gonna wait till I have something to link to, though. Joe Clark 2007-07-04T13:56:10-04:00 2007-07-04T13:56:10-04:00 tag:save-ttc,2007:T2007.07.03-onthefacebook1 Added my notes on statements by General Manager Gary Webster on signage at the June 2007 TTC meeting. This would be where he told the Commission the current sign “standard” is just fine. Joe Clark 2007-07-03T22:00:00-04:00 2007-07-03T22:00:00-04:00 tag:save-ttc,2007:T2007.07.03-onthefacebook Facebook group: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2559326898" title="Facebook: Save TTC Signs">Save TTC Signs</a>. Joe Clark 2007-07-03T09:00:00-04:00 2007-07-03T21:58:00-04:00 tag:save-ttc,2007:T2007.07.03-launch Today I updated my Web page on signage and wayfinding in the TTC. The biggest change is a new <a href="http://http://joeclark.org/design/signage/activism/" title="Write-in campaign">write-in campaign</a> to prevent TTC staff from <em>deliberately destroying</em> old signage, including the only example of Paul Arthur’s signage redesign for the TTC at St. George station.