{"id":1693,"date":"2008-02-07T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T09:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/07\/eustace_tilley\/"},"modified":"2008-02-07T09:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T09:20:00","slug":"eustace_tilley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/07\/eustace_tilley\/","title":{"rendered":"Eustace Tilley Subway"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nEustace Tilley Subway
\nby Alberto Forero (2008)<\/a>
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\nOriginally uploaded by pantufla<\/a>.
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When I was glancing<\/strong> through all the submissions<\/a> for the New Yorker<\/a><\/i>‘s Eustace Tilley contest<\/a>, I somehow neglected to realize that one of my favorite submissions — a brilliant riff on the classic Vignelli map<\/a> of the NYC subway system — was done by one Alberto Forero<\/a>, a fellow Regis<\/a> alum (and fellow ephemera fanatic) who took over my old post as the school newspaper’s graphics editor back in the day. I also love that the print article<\/a> about the contest winners shows Alberto’s illustration along with my other two<\/a> favorites<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I never knew him that well, but like many of the remarkable<\/a>, talented<\/a>, trail-blazing<\/a> guys I know from my Regis years, Alberto is — at the very least — a triple threat: he’s a designer<\/a>, illustrator<\/a>, and musician<\/a>. Go check him out, and maybe send some work his way.<\/p>\n

(Speaking of the school newspaper, someday I need to write about how it was working on the school newspaper that turned me from a compulsive doodler into a future typographer, due in large part to my fascination with using a VariTyper machine to set headlines using all the cool Avant Garde<\/a> alternate glyphs.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eustace Tilley Subway by Alberto Forero (2008) Originally uploaded by pantufla. When I was glancing through all the submissions for the New Yorker‘s Eustace Tilley contest, I somehow neglected to realize that one of my favorite submissions — a brilliant riff on the classic Vignelli map of the NYC subway system — was done by … Continue reading “Eustace Tilley Subway”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracultural"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}