Gothamist: Fr8sh New York Numbers Calendar

Jenny Tobias

Mon, 06 Feb 2006 15:15:03 -0500

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.

anonymous

Sun, 05 Feb 2006 16:56:22 -0500

fr8sh? dontcha mean fr3sh?

nealteak

Sun, 05 Feb 2006 16:50:21 -0500

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.

DrunkAtNYU

Sun, 05 Feb 2006 12:39:12 -0500

since when did 20 become a grafitti flower? it seems to be missing quite a few numbers, i like the idea though