Traces of Type and the Things We Love Sarah Maxey

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Traces of Typeand the things we loveSarah Maxey

Gerbrand van Melle

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Museum BuildingMassey University

Wellington

091110 1800


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Misfire

t will all be OK

GR V 1911Health Education Branch NZ Dept of Health

New Zealand Military Force


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http://outdoorknit.blogspot.com

Until finally... some love!

More fence art to come, Im thinking. Because that is one hell

of an ugly fence. The Council seems to have made a lot ofchanges, torn down a lot of buildings, built a gazillion new

roads, but completing the projects is taking forever and we are

left with quite a few wastelands.

The latest I hear with the area they flattened for the park by

the Basin Reserve is that it isnt going ahead due to a funding

cut. What are they going to do with the barren land and wire

fence?

I suppose I should be grateful that they give us no end of

issues to make fence art commentary on. :/

Stix

PNTR says:woooh this is su-

per!!!! im coming to

wellington for a week

on wednesday! hope

to see some of your

work around! great

things your doingPosted 8 months ago.

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thisisrabbit says:Totally rocking. Love

the messages, make

sure some of your

stuff makes its way to

Auckland some timesoon!

Posted 8 months ago.

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outdoorknit says:oh, thanks PNTR!

send us a flikr http://

farm4.static.flickr.

om/3594/3529693050_

b6db40fd42_o.jpg

mail, im sure stiX

would be keen tomeet up...im off to

london myself to-

night, so best i could

do auckland-wise

would be in the air-

port!

http://farm4.static.

flickr.com/3443/3737

024515_4645fa806f_

o.jpgxx


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pirates... says:mean...

cast


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Mlice says:

This is so cool!Posted 8 months ago.

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kakariki says:Freaking awe-

some!!!!


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Militairy ButtonGR - George Rex (King George V 1910-1936)

J2A195 Brigadiers And Colonels - GvR

23mm - 1911-1936 KC Brass 2.00

J2A195 Brigadiers And Colonels - GvR

23mm - 1911-1936 KC Brass (HR 4*) 2.00


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ITSEASYTO

PROTECTYOURFAMILYS

SMILE

CALL0800 TALK TEETH(0800 825 583) www.letstalkteeth.co.nz


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Manhole cover index

FH Fire HoseM Manhole

SV Spring Valve


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Yesterday 2009

911 HQ

Twin Towers 2001Berlin Wall 1989


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Alexander & Webb Co Ltd

Letterpress Offset

William Lee Baron Plunket

William Lee Baron Plunket

K.C.M.O K.C.V.O

Governor of New Zealand3rd October 1906


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Alexander & Webb Printing Co Ltd

Address: 24 Tacy St, Evans Bay, Wellington 6022 Town: Wel-lington

04859761 - Registered at Companies House on 07/08/2003

Type of business:

Other retail sale in specialised stores

Address:

JOHN SWIFT BUILDING19 MASON STREET

MANCHESTER

M4 5FT


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William Lee Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket, GCMG, KCVO, KBE

(19 December 1864 24 January 1920) was a British diplomat

and administrator.

Born in Dublin, he was educated at Harrow and Trinity CollegeDublin. His parents were William, 4th Lord Plunket, the arch-

bishop of Dublin in 1884-97, and his wife Anne, the daughter

of Sir Benjamin Guinness.

He entered the Diplomatic Service and was sent to Rome in

1889 as an attach to the British Embassy there. In 1892, he

was appointed in the same position to the embassy in Con-

stantinople, and finally retired two years later. In 1894, he also

married Lady Victoria Alexandrina, youngest daughter of the

1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, by whom he was to have

eight children. Victoria gave her name to Plunket Society,[1] a

New Zealand society promoting the health and well-being of

mothers and children.

Having succeeded his father as fifth Baron Plunket in 1897,

Plunket three years later became private secretary to Lord Ca-

dogan, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland at the time, and fulfilled the

same role for his successor, Lord Dudley. He was appointed

CVO and KCVO in 1900 and 1903 respectively, and in 1904he became Governor of New Zealand as well as a KCMG the

following year. He held this post until 1910, when he was ad-

vanced to GCMG. He was later appointed KBE in 1918.

Lord Plunket died aged 55 in London, and was buried in the

citys Putney Vale Cemetery


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Type Dynastic order

Royal house House of Windsor

Motto VICTORIA

Day 20 June

Eligibility All living citizens of the Commonwealth realms.

Awarded for Personal service to the sovereign.

Status Currently constituted

Sovereign Elizabeth IIChancellor The Earl Peel

Grades (w/ post-nominals) Knight/Dame Grand Cross (GCVO)

Knight/Dame Commander (KCVO/DCVO)

Commander (CVO)

Lieutenant (LVO)

Member (MVO)

Medal (RVM)

Established 21 April 1896


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Type Order

Motto Auspicium Melioris vi

Token of a Better Age

Awarded for At the monarchs pleasure

Status Currently constituted

Sovereign Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

Grades (w/ post-nominals) Knight Grand Cross or Dame Grand Cross

Knight Commander or Dame CommanderCompanion


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Thistle Hall

We are] looking to the future weith progressive ideals

Letter from Hall Management to City Engineer2 August 1927, Cityworks File 167

Wellington City Archive


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Cuba Street

Named for the second of the New ZealandCompany ships which brought over a survey party

from England in 1839. The street was originally laid

out in 1841 between what were then waterfront

sections in Manners Street and Vivian Street, then

known as Ingestre Street. It later continued toJervois Quay on land reclaimed in the 1880s.

The street was rebuilt after a fire in 1879.


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Super Cuts International


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Supercuts Wellington West Palm BeachFlorida Beauty Salons

Supercuts Wellington

13860 Wellington Trce

West Palm Beach, FL 33414

Phone: (561)790-5300

Beauty Salons in zip code 33414

West Palm Beach Alt 5m

Wellington Alt 8m


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The Vic154-156 Cuba StAlthough interrupted by balconies, this building

features a distinctive facade with prominent Art

Deco decoration, particularly the sunburst motif.

The building was erected in 1935 and designed byJames Bennie as a private hotel.


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Peoples Palace203 Cuba StBuilt for Dr Patrick Mackin in

1904 and designed by James

ODea. Between 1916 and 1928

the Salvation Army rented the

building as its National Head-

quarters. In 1928 it bought the

property and converted it into

an extension of the Peoples

Palace next door.

Former Peoples Palace/Rail-ton Hotel213 Cuba StBuilt for the Salvation Army

in 1908 on land donated by a

member, the original Peoples

Palace replaced a SalvationArmy rescue home on the site

built in 1894. It was intended to

provide reasonably priced ac-

commodation in an alcohol-free

environment. It later became

known as The Railton. It is now

a Trekkers Hotel.


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Come as you are

Cigar Bar


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New Zealands first

and most exclusive

Gentlemens Club.

Sit down, relax,

stay a while and

be pampered by

Wellingtons most

attractive girls in

evening dress. Handpicked from aroundthe world. Have adrink at our licensed

bar. Chat and mingle

with our lovelyladies...the choice is

yours. Lap dances

available on request.

Confidentiality

assured.

Comeas you areas you were

as I want you to be

as a friend

as a friend

as an old enemy

take your time

hurry upthe choice is your

dont be late

take a rest

as a friend

as an old memoriamemoria

memoria

memoria


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Cubastreet Fruit Mart


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In the 1960s everybody went to the butchers to buy their

meat, then to the fruit and veg shop, and the fish shop to buy

their fish. There were a lot of these shops around in Cuba

Street then. (Joshna Dayal, March 2009)

When owners Joshna and Sanjay Dayal first approached me

with the idea of re-branding the identity, I was nervous to say

the least. The reason for this was based around the fact that

Cuba Fruit has been trading on Cuba Street for the last 50 odd

years, and is already such a trusted brand to wholesale andretail customers in the Wellington CBD and wider region. With

the establishment of supermarkets in the early sixties, there

has been a continuing shift from Cuba Fruit being a retail out-

let, to currently 90% wholesale based, supplying restaurants,

bars and cafes around Wellington.

Joshna and Sanjay are the third-generation proprietors of Cuba

Fruit, and enjoy the respons bilities of the selfemployment

and their day-to-day lives on Cuba Street. Joshna recently told

Whitireia Journalism student, Anne Cornish, that being on

the street makes your day interesting, meeting these people,

having your regulars, finding out whats going on. Which is

one of the reasons she is still self-employed instead of taking

advantage of her degree in chemical engineering.


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Mankey Chops


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John Langdon (born April 19, 1946) is an Ameri-can graphic designer, ambigram artist, painterand writer.

The son of George Langdon, a teacher at The Epis-

copal Academy in Merion, Pennsylvania, Langdon

attended that school from 1950-1964. He received

his bachelors degree in English from Dickinson

College, graduating in 1968.

A self-taught artist and graphic designer, Langdon

has free-lanced as a lettering artist and logo design

specialist since 1976. Known for his ambigrams,which he began developing in the late 1960s and

early 70s, Langdon featured those and his essays in

the book Wordplay published in 1992.

Langdon is known mostly through his association

with Dan Brown, and the novels Angels and De-

mons, The Da Vinci Code and The Lost Symbol.

The protagonist of these novels was named RobertLangdon as a tribute to Langdon.

RotationalA design that presents several instances of words when rotated

through a fixed angle. This is usually 180 degrees, but rotational am-

bigrams of other angles exist, for example 90 or 45 degrees. The word

spelled out from the alternative direction(s) is often the same, but maybe a different word to the initially presented form. A simple example is

the lower-case abbreviation for Down, dn, which looks like the low-

er-case word up when rotated 180 degrees.


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Catherine Griffiths

AEIOU


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Begin forwarded message:

Hi G - you are making me very jealous. Wish I could hang out! I have added yournews into the newsletter - I had a fixation it was set for Dec (and got my dateswrong again) but of course its all about to happen!!! So dates are amended.

About your response to A E I O U - of course (!) It is whatever you wish to make of it.

I love that. So, the idea is:

A E I O U, a typo/sound installation - where the observer delivers the sound -

constructs five vowels in steel, and lightly stacks them five metres on a first level

terrace in Cuba Street, Wellington, NZ. My first public work, and first typographic

project since TypeSHED11, I was commissioned to make a site-specific installation for

the new Cubana apartments. A recording (which I am going to make when I return!)

will capture the sound element of the installation, from a surprise I L O V E U to the

actual sounding out of the vowels A E I O U - the ranging pronunciations a clue to the

multi-lingual world we live in.

So far:

People recite the vowels - some take time to figure out, others get it immediately, each

say it in their own way - accent, language, dialect ...

Someone read I L O V E U (that was actually Hamish Mckay from the gallery!)

Another response on Eyes flickr was this is smart!! (the image was entitled Sound

piece - which I like, and is actually better than titling it A E I O U )

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eyemagazine/4027080504/in/set-72157622620192166/

Then you respond with the lyrics from hardcore punk band Freeze!

Donald Beekman responded with this:

i saw several smaller pics of the IAEOU project already. great stuff, cath! also very coolto see the work in progress. i just love that workshop athmosphere. funny that you say

its a typo/sound piece with the audience producing the sound.

i also saw another connection with sound. i wonder if you realised this before but the

5-line basis of the letters is the same as in sheet music. music (sound) is written on a

5-line grid.

And so on ... When I get back, I am going to set myself up on the street and record

people making the sound of the work. If you want to know about my other projects onthe waterfront: here you are


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A-E-A-E-I-O-U-U I sometimes cry


You tell me that you love me every day

When were alone I really feel in love

But when youre out with friends I see a change

You treat me bad, I feel like second best

I want your love (I want your love)

Give me your love, girl (give me your love)

Thats how I feel, I want to be real



I need your touch and I, I owe you so much


(Oh) A-E (I really care)A-E-I (I really care) O-U-U

(I really care, care, care) I sometimes lie

Do you realize some things you say

I know you do, it makes me so confused

Im sure this aint the way that love should be

Lets get it right, its much too good to lose



Thats how I feel, I want to be real



I need your touch and I owe you so much

A-E-A-E-I-O-U-U I sometimes lie

(Girl) A-E (I really care)A-E-I (I really care) O-U-U


(Girl) A-E (I really care)A-E-I (I really care) O-U-U


I need your love, I want your love, give me your love (give me your love)

I need your love, I want your love, give me your love

Girl (girl), I know I owe you so much

But I cant pay you

With just, with just one touch

And girl, I know you care

Ill never love another

To that, to that Ill swear

A-E-A-E (I owe you girl) I-O-U-U, I sometimes lie, yeah

A-E-A-E (I owe you girl) I-O-U-U, (owe you girl) I sometimes cry (oh)

A-E-A-E-I-O-U-U I sometimes lie


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Hallenstein Bros

New Zealand Clothing Company


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The Hallensteins story started back with the birth of the unusually named Bendix Hallenstein

in Germany in 1835. Bendixs parents ran a mill where they made clothes from rags, but Ben-

dix was the youngest in the family, so he wasnt going to be taking over the family business.

Instead he moved to Manchester in England at the age of 17. Manchester didnt really do it for

him so after five years there he joined two of his brothers, Isaac and Michaelis, in Australia.

Guess what they were doing there? Yep, they were following the gold rushes. They all pitched

up at Daylesford, in Victoria, in 1857.

The Hallenstein brothers ran a store in the town selling supplies to miners. The business

nearly went to custard when all three of the brothers set their caps after the same woman

their housekeeper, Mary Mountain. In a scene straight from a Hollywood movie, Bendix

won Marys heart, and the pair went back to England to marry in 1861 (possibly to get away

from Bendixs jilted brothers!).

Two years after their marriage, Bendix and Mary (and the other Hallenstein brothers) followed

another gold rush and came to New Zealand. They opened a store in Invercargill but the lure

of blue cod and oysters wasnt enough to keep them there. Eventually Bendix moved up theline, closer to the action in Queenstown, where he opened another store, selling everything

from food and wine to clothes and ironware. The store was a real success, and soon after Hal-

lenstein opened stores in other gold towns around the region Arrowtown, Lawrence and

Cromwell.

Evidence of Hallensteins time in Queenstown can still be seen (but get there quick before

they pull it down and build more apartments) in the old stone courthouse that he commis-

sioned as mayor. The remains of the grand homestead he built, Thurlby Domain, still stand

near present-day Millbrook.

Despite his long-term link with Queenstown, it was in Dunedin that Hallenstein first got in-

volved in clothing manufacture. Supplying miners throughout Central Otago, Hallenstein soon

realised that good quality mens clothing was hard to come by. In 1873 he established New

Zealands first clothing factory in Dunedin, but financial troubles meant he soon had to sell it.

He leased the factory back, though, and started making ready-to-wear mens clothes using

fabric made at the local Roslyn and Mosgiel woollen mills.

A year later the first Hallensteins menswear store opened in the Octagon in Dunedin, and itwas a hit. Within 25 years there were 34 Hallensteins stores selling mens clothing through-

out the country. The success of the company saw Hallenstein and his family move to Dunedin,

where he also established the Drapery and General Importing Company which you may

know as the now-defunct department store chain, DIC.

Bendix Hallenstein retained control of the company until his death in 1905. The following year

it became a limited liability company. At its peak in 1986 there were 72 Hallensteins stores

around the country, although since then they have been consolidated around the main centres.

In 1987 Hallensteins merged with Glassons, making it this countrys biggest clothing company.


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