Typography: Chop Suey

Photo-Lettering’s One Line Manual of Styles

1971

Stereo Types by Paul Shaw

Flower Drum Song

C.Y. Lee

Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1957
Theater adaptation, links 1 and 2

Film adaptation, links 1 and 2 and 3 (video)

“Chop Suey” lyrics

The Chinese Lunar New Year 4711is the year of the snake.

(Next post on Monday: My Name Is Paris)

Typography: New York City Subway Maps

The other side of the New York Subway Guide 1972 map.

AIGA

November 18, 2008

Helvetica and the New York City Subway System

by Paul Shaw

Helvetica

Documentary Film

MTA New York City Subway

Map

NYC Subway Historical Maps

The New York Times

May 27, 2010

The New Yorker

September 23, 2011

Vignelli.com

Transportation Graphics

Seeing New York
The Official MTA Travel Guide (1976)
front and back covers

1977


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1992

Token Trips Travel Guide (1994)
back and front covers


1996

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2012

(Next post tomorrow: The Complete Jack Kirby)