Flickr: Typographic Decay
About Typographic Decay
“An investigation of what happens to typography, when it’s given a fixed ephemeral existence and allowed to interact with its environment.”
The photos being shown in this group are a collection of individual explorations, and naturally found occurrences in both digital and analogue mediums that attempt to explore this statement.
Typographic Decay is a term coined by Edrea Lita and Marek Okon in 2007 when they both were investigating how physical typography interacts over time within a physical or digital environment. This investigation later became a paper they presented in October of 2007 at Plus+ International Design Conference held in Birmingham, England.
I found two similar groups on Flickr:
Flickr: Ghost Letters
Flickr: Fragmented Urban Language
You can also find many sites and groups about Ghost Signs in general.
Think of every pirate and seafaring type movie you have ever seen, now pour all that into writing your own great shipwreck scene.