Sign Language

04.14.2011

ART & DESIGN

Borne from the love of yesteryear and things past,  the minds behind soccer-enthusiast brand Bumpy Pitch (and its lifestyle site The Original Winger) created a series of vintage-inspired New York City subway roll sign artwork. The line, which is sold under the brand Flying Junction, uses the same typography and design-cues of signs from early 1900′s New York City subway signage.

“We wanted to explore a part of the history of the city and its boroughs,” says co-founder Benjamin Hooper about the art. Hooper, along with his team took painstaking care to preserve the look and feel of the original roll signs. “We re-created each letter from from scratch to ensure that the lettering was true to how it was on the [original] subway roll signs,” he continues.

Priced from $20-$130 depending in size, each piece is printed with soy-based ink on recycled paper or canvas, and are available here.

  • http://twitter.com/prozachampagne 反叛者

    Feels like Dumbo

  • http://back2relaxed.wordpress.com/ pixiecut

    Those are so fly. I am from Texas(love it, wouldn’t trade that for anything), but I feel I’m a New Yorker in many ways!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1068429429 Sandra Nuñez-Simms

    Brooklyn and Church Ave for LIFE!!!!!!

  • http://twitter.com/mykel42 Mykel Mitchell

    Special…well done….I’m looking to purchase

  • http://twitter.com/mykel42 Mykel Mitchell

    Special…well done….I’m looking to purchase

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7ND5C5QAVMXRHTXUSCYT22HE7A The Best

    thanx 4 the good job

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sochickidz-Laure/100000818354040 Sochickidz Laure

    j’adore!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sochickidz-Laure/100000818354040 Sochickidz Laure

    j’adore!

  • john d howard

    sweet! going to order for my new apartment

  • Anonymous

    Taking me back! Nice

  • http://twitter.com/Kubashi Kubashi Network

    I get it. but $130 bones for text? I’m a designer and even I think that’s pretty exorbitant for design work. Must be the ink… (scratches head) Still a dope look though.

  • Anonymous

    I need “J” Gates Ave
    “A” Broadway Junction
    Or A pic of those 50 steps at Broadway Junction Coming down from the “J” to “A”
    one taken from the top another from the bottom.
    That would be hot. I’m going to shoot that the next time I go home to BK
    Nuf said Brooklynites Stand up!

    Bliss…..

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