Chronology of Lettering Walks
This is a list of all of the lettering walks I have led or co-led since the beginning of Legacy of Letters in 1997. There are additional cities that I have not led walks in, but have the capability to do so. They include Amsterdam, Berlin, Leiden, London, Mainz, New Orleans, Oakland, Pittsburgh, Rochester (New York), Toronto, Troy (New York), Tulsa, and Washington DC. I have led walks for institutions, organizations, design schools, businesses and individuals. For more information about my lettering walks or to schedule one email me at paulshaw@nyc.rr.com.
1997
Italy—Rome and Florence [for Legacy of Letters]
Inscription on the Triumphal Arch of Sixtus V (1585) at Largo Sisto V (on the northeastern side of the Stazione Termini), Rome.
Detail of coat-of-arms of Almerici de Almericis (1473). On a wall of the courtyard of the Museo Nazionale di Bargello, Florence.
1998
Italy—Rome and Florence [for Legacy of Letters]
Detail of the facade of the House of Lorenzo Manilio (1476), Rome.
Detail of scroll from the sculpture of the Prophet Obadiah by Nanni di Bartolo (1422) in Museo del Duomo, Florence.
1999
Italy—Rome and Florence [for Legacy of Letters]
Inscription on the Acqua Felice (1586), Rome.
Detail of flood marker (1557), Oltrarno, Florence.
2000
Italy—Tuscany (Arezzo, Florence, Siena, Pisa, Lucca, Volterra) [for Legacy of Letters]
Coats-of-Arms on the facade of the Palazzo Pretorio (now the Palazzo della Biblioteca di Arezzo), Arezzo.
Inscription (1233) on the facade of the Duomo, Lucca.
Spolia (reused stones) on the side of the Cattedrale, Pisa.
2005
New York (Upper East Side) [for TypeCon]
New York (Morningside Heights & Midtown) [for Type Directors Club]
Engine Company 22 and Ladder Company 13, FDNY, 159 East 85 Street, New York.
Detail of inlaid brass inscriptional letters in vestibule of Avery Library, Columbia University.
2006
Boston [for TypeCon]
New York (Midtown) [for Tiffany’s]
New York (Lower Manhattan & Brooklyn Heights) [for Type Directors Club]
New York (Midtown & Tribeca) [for Type Directors Club]
Atlas Stores (1888), Boston.
2007
New York (Midtown) [for GEL Conference]
New York (Bronx)
New York (Brooklyn Downtown & Heights) [for Type Directors Club]
New York (Inwood & Washington Heights) [for Type Directors Club]
Addeo & Sons Bakery, Belmont neighborhood, Bronx, New York.
Beattie Used Car Sales Corp., Inwood neighborhood, Manhattan, New York.
2008
Boston (downtown) [for MassArt]
Buffalo [for TypeCon Buffalo]
New York (Forest Hills) [for Type Directors Club]
New York (Upper East Side & Midtown) [for APHA New York]
New York (Midtown east) [for Society of Fellows, American Academy at Rome]
New York (Noho, Soho & The Bowery)
New York (Sunnyside to Kew Gardens)
New York (East Side and East Harlem) [for Type Directors Club]
New York (Hunters Point to Williamsburg) [for Type Directors Club]
New York (South Bronx) [for Lahti University of Applied Science]
Detail of Prudentia artwork on facade of The Catholic Center, Buffalo. Formerly the Buffalo Courier-Express Building (1930).
Repetti, Hunters Point neighborhood, Queens, New York.
2009
Atlanta [for TypeCon]
New York (Myrtle Avenue El) [for Transit Museum]
New York (Crown Heights & Bedford-Stuyvesant)
New York (Dumbo) [for Type Directors Club]
New York (L train) [for Type Directors Club]
New York (South Bronx)
Detail of inscription at base of statue (1932) of Tom Watson, formerly on the grounds of the Georgia State Capitol, Atlanta.
Detail of Carroll Hardware sign, Crown Heights neighborhood, Brooklyn, New York.
2010
Boston (Back Bay) & Cambridge [for MassArt]
Italy—Padua, Venice, Rimini, Ravenna, Aquileia, Verona, Vicenza [for Legacy of Letters]
Los Angeles (Hollywood) [for TypeCon]
Los Angeles (downtown) [for TypeCon]
New York (Midtown) [for Creative Week: TDC and The One Club]
New York (Flatiron & Union Square) [for Creative Week: TDC and The One Club]
New York (along the L train line) [for Cooper Union]
New York (Harlem & South Bronx) [for Wichita State University]
New York (Greenwich Village & Soho) [for Type Directors Club]
New York (Staten Island) [for Type Directors Club]
Rite-Way Dry Cleaners hours of operation sign. Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Detail of inscription (1446) on the Castello Sismondo, Rimini.
Detail of the neon sign for the Orpheum Theatre (1926), downtown Los Angeles.
Sign for Carlo’s Lite-Mover in Harlem.
2011
New York (Midtown South) [for Creative Week]
New York (Lower Manhattan & Brooklyn Heights) [for Savannah College of Art & Design]
New York (Fort Greene & Clinton Hill) [for Type Directors Club]
New York (Greenwich Village) [for Type Directors Club]
Detail of neon sign for French Garment Cleaners Co., Fort Greene neighborhood, Brooklyn.
2012
Boston (Longwood) [for MassArt]
Chicago [for AIGA Chicago]
Italy—Milano, Parma, Venice, Padua, Verona, Rovereto, Aquileia [for Legacy of Letters]
New Haven
New York (Midtown East) [for Creative Week]
New York (Bushwick & East Williamsburg) [for CooperType]
New York (Tribeca & Civic Center) [for Ringling School of Art]
New York (Jackson Heights) [for Type Directors Club]
Detail of lettering on Carbide & Carbon Building (1929), Chicago.
Bar Teatro, Rovereto.
Transom sign for The Traymore apartment building (1916), New Haven.
Auto shop, Bushwick neighborhood, Brooklyn.
2013
Italy—Milano, Verona, Venice, Veneto (Bassano del Grappa) [for Legacy of Letters]
Los Angeles (downtown)
New York (Tribeca) [for Pratt TDC Club]
New York (Tribeca) [for Creative Week]
New York (Greenpoint & Long Island City) [for École de Communication Visuelle]
New York (East Bronx) [for Type Directors Club]
New York (Woodhaven & Richmond) [for Type Directors Club]
Portland, Oregon [for TypeCon]
Detail of the Romanesque facade of S. Zeno (1117), Verona.
Sign covered in stickers, downtown Los Angeles.
Benj. Michelson Jeweler, Woodhaven neighborhood, Queens, New York.
Portland Outdoor Store, Portland, Oregon.
2014
Los Angeles (downtown) [for APHA Southern California chapter]
New York (Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn)
New York (Lower East Side) [for Pratt TDC Club]
New York (Washington Heights & Harlem) [for École de Communication Visuelle]
New York (Dutch Kills to Astoria) [for Type Directors Club]
Philadelphia [for University of the Arts]
Terrazzo lettering of Suzette, downtown Los Angeles.
Detail of inscription on facade of Most Precious Blood Roman Catholic Church (1930), Astoria, Queens, New York.
A.L. Levis (est. 1896), Philadelphia.
2015
Copenhagen
Denver [for TypeCon]
Italy—Milano, Parma, Verona, Vicenza, Venice, Veneto [for Legacy of Letters]
New York (Little Italy & Lower East Side) [for École de Communication Visuelle]
New York (Bushwick) [for Type Directors Club]
New York (Upper West Side) [for University of Tampa]
New York (Dumbo) [for Etsy]
Krogs Fiskerestaurant (est. 1910), Copenhagen.
Shelby’s Bar & Grill, Denver. Detail of neon sign.
Criptoportico Romano, Vicenza.
National Leather Manufacturing Co., Inc., Dumbo neighborhood, Brooklyn.
2016
New York (Financial District and Staten Island) [for École de Communication Visuelle]
New York (North Bronx) [for Type Directors Club]
Newark [for Legacy of Letters]
San Francisco [for Northern California Chapter, American Printing History Association]
Seattle [for TypeCon]
Pasadena, California [for American Printing History Association]
Newark [for Type Directors Club]
Ambassador Apartments (1932), St. George, Staten Island, New York City.
Newark City Subway terracotta signage (c.1938). Newark, New Jersey.
S&B Grocery, San Francisco.
Detail of sidewalk tile sign for the Lippy Building, Seattle.
St. Andrew’s School (1949), Pasadena, California.
2017
New York (North Bronx) [for École de Communication Visuelle]
New York (Bushwick) [for University of the West of England, Bristol]
Boston (downtown) [for TypeCon 2017]
Providence (downtown) [for TypeCon 2017]
Boston (Back Bay) [for TypeCon 2017]
Montreal [for ATypI Montreal]
Baltimore [for APHA Chesapeake chapter]
Albany, New York [for Sage College of Albany]
New York (Upper East Side of Manhattan) [for Type Directors Club]
Trabajamos Head Start, The Bronx, New York.
Sears’ Crescent (c.1860), Boston.
Detail of the Richmond Building (1892), Providence.
Detail of stained glass window by Tiffany, Church of the Covenant (1867), Boston. The letters are backward so that they can be read from the interior of the church.
The Robert Simpson Company (Simpson’s) (1936), Montreal. Monogram.
Detail of Mercantile Trust & Deposit Co. (1885), Baltimore.
Kenmore Hotel (1878), Albany.
2018
New York (Hell’s Kitchen / Clinton) [for École de Communication Visuelle]
New York (Upper East Side) [for Legacy of Letters]
New York (Garment District) [for The One Club]
New York (Tribeca East) [for Type Directors Club]
Portland [two for TypeCon]
San Francisco [for Northern California Chapter of the American Printing History Association]
New York (Flatbush and Midwood, Brooklyn) [for Type Directors Club]
Chicago (The Loop) [for STA]
Attic of St. George Tropaoforos Church (1886), Manhattan.
St. George apartment building, Manhattan.
64 Reade Street, Manhattan.
Canopy (West 35th Street) for The New Yorker Hotel, Manhattan. No longer present.
Maytag building, Portland. The letters change dramatically depending on one’s perspective.
Neon garage sign inside Kelly’s Olympian bar, Portland.
W. & J. Sloane furniture store (1915), San Francisco.
Nostrand Food Mart in Midwood, Brooklyn, New York.
M.A. Donahue & Co. building on Printer’s Row, Chicago.
2019
New York (downtown Brooklyn) [for Type Directors Club]
New York (Forest Hills, Queens) [for École de Communication Visuelle]
New York (Sunset Park, Brooklyn) [for Type Directors Club]
Minneapolis [for TypeCon]
Door handle from the former Abraham & Straus department store in downtown Brooklyn, New York.
Detail of World War I monument (1921) in Forest Hills, Queens, New York. Designed by sculptor Adolph Weinmann but with lettering probably by Forest Hills resident Frederic W. Goudy. Note his son’s name near the top.
Exit sign at Sunset Play Center (1936), Sunset Park, Brooklyn, New York.
Detail of the Handicraft Building (1907) in Minneapolis.
2020
New York (Jackson Heights and Corona, Queens) [for École de Communication Visuelle]
New York (Murray Hill and Kips Bay)
New York (Upper East Side)
New York (Tremont and Belmont sections of the Bronx) [for Type Directors Club]
New York (Brooklyn Heights and Sunset Park, Brooklyn) [for Pentagram]
Enamel “Curb your dog” sign on an apartment building in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York.
Brownstone address in Murray Hill, Manhattan, New York.
Apartment building address in Kips Bay, Manhattan, New York.
Apartment building address in Carnegie Hill, Manhattan, New York. Two of the 2020 lettering tours focused on numbers.
Sign in window of Addeo & Sons Italian Bakery in Belmont, The Bronx, New York.
Detail of lettering on Robertson family monument in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.
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