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Jenny Tobias sent us a link to her amazing New York City Numbers Calendar [1.6MB PDF]. Each month features numbers that she photographed in different areas of the city. For instance, January's numbers (above) came from the East Village between 1st and 3rd Street. Consult the first page of the calendar for the location information. Bonus: Jennifer marks up the calendar with all the major holidays, as well as some lesser known ones, like National Headache Awareness Day. If you are a designer who has a made a 2006 calendar, send us in a link and we'll post it here.
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since when did 20 become a grafitti flower? it seems to be missing quite a few numbers, i like the idea though
yeah, it's a nice (if not original) idea, but the missing numbers detract. if you've ever gone to art school this kind of thing is standard design 101 stuff and not very interesting. to be done well she needs to be photographing better typography and using much more interesting composition. points to jenny for putting her work out there, and glad gothamist is enjoying it, but really... "amazing"? not so much.
fr8sh? dontcha mean fr3sh?
The missing numbers reflect reality. If there's no numbered building on a given lot, it gets a blank. Also, the numbers correspond to the actual sequence on the street (with one or two exceptions, and those are all from the given street). The goal is to show what's actually on buildings, not "more interesting typography." Isn't it interesting, for example, that First Street has lots of those cheap gold diamond-shaped stick-on numbers while Ninth Street has lots of elegant canopies?
About the grafitti flower and other bits like it: these fill in some of those gaps. Mostly these bits are from the that month's street.
By the way, month corresponds strictly to street: January is only First Street, not First to Third Streets.