A Journey Through Broadway’s Diverse Typography

Together with typography expert Kenya Sarskaya, online publication Hopes&Fears embarked on a journey down Broadway to discover the street’s diverse collection of signage and lettering. Starting at W 181st street and traveling down to Brooklyn’s Bowling Green neighborhood, they encountered both influential typefaces and one-off designs, choosing 26 to examine further. From Murray’s Sturgeon Shop’s nostalgic red-and-yellow neon sign to Morningside Garage’s Neuzeit-Grotesk-inspired styling, see …

“Print” Murals With the Human-Guided SprayPrinter

The SprayPrinter, developed by an Estonia-based start-up, is new a spray painting system that “prints” out large-scale murals using a human hand as its guide. Accompanied by a dedicated mobile app, the contraption maps out targeted walls or canvases and sprays a small dot each time it passes over an area that should be colored in—it’s basically a giant, human-powered inkjet printer. Though they’ve released …

How Astronomers are Hunting Ancient Stars

At 4.6 billion years old, our beloved Sun is considered young when compared with the 13-billion-year-old stars that occupy the furthest reaches of our galaxy. Those stars, called “pristine” by astronomers, took shape just 300 million years after the Big Bang and are recognizable by a lighter metallic composition. Various teams of astronomers are currently on the hunt for these stars, looking into the night …