You Can't Miss: Typography from Melbourne

Stephen Banham, an Australian typographer and writer, recently released a book called "Characters:
Cultural stories revealed through typography." The book is photo-rich with details about Melbourne's typographical past and heritage.

Here is a highlight from Eye Magazine's post about the book:

"Though many of the pleasures the book delivers are specifically Melburnian, it will not be hard for city dwellers in other parts of the world to come up with their own counterparts to the decayed subterranean arcades pictured here, to the buildings with carved Edwardian lettering peeking from behind modern plastic details, to the factories whose industrial iconography has been co-opted by property developers as post-industrial retro-chic."

As someone interested in visiting Australia, it seems there's one more reason to make the trip: beautiful typography and design.

Here is a photo from Eye Magazine's post. This sign was made in 1950.