250,000 of New York City’s street signs will soon see the end of the all-caps Federal Highway Administration series font, or Highway Gothic, and instead get a more legible, sentence case version featuring Clearview, a typeface created by designers Donald Meeker and James Montalbano.
Artist Ming Liang Lu creates intricate portraits out of paper of people on the L train platform in Union Square. Under his fast fingers, paper turns to caricature in a matter of minutes. The finished portraits go up on the wall of the subway, a makeshift gallery.