7・18・15 (GRC)

 Last weekend, our group of seven made the trek from London to beautiful Amsterdam. It only took us 11 hours on an overnight bus there and back, but we made it and I'm so glad we did. Amsterdam is entirely gorgeous. We, of course, visited the very iconic I amsterdam sign and I have to say, I pictured it being so much larger, even though that means no one would ever get a decent picture of it (which they do). I love the repetition of the type from the sign, to the bench, and the tiled sphere (seen left). I also really like the simplicity of the sans-serif font they chose. However, I'm not sure, but wouldn't a san-serif capital "i" look like a larger lowercase "l" and not have the apparent serifs? I found that bizarre, yet at the same time, I don't think it would look good without the serifs. Maybe that's just my untrained eye, but I prefer it this way.








Before we boarded our exhaustingly long bus ride back, we, naturally, had to get lattes when we stumbled across this very adorable all black and white coffee shop. Admittedly somewhat overpriced, the lattes were delicious and were adorned with the simplest, hand-stamped, sans-serif, all lowercase label. This transferred over to their free stickers as well. I love the juxtaposition of such a clean design being hand-stamped leaving variety and imperfections like those seen in the cup on the right.