You are bombarded with messages when you cross the threshold of a super city. Some inspirational, some persuasive, some provocative. Some shout from 30ft billboards to make their mark, others subtly wait for you to discover them in a grimy nook.
Here are a few of the words that took my fancy in New York (and some of the typography is brilliant to boot).
Also, no photos, but I loved the multilingual nature of NYC – the signs in Chinese at the Chinatown subway stations, the Dominican butcheries – Carnicero, the Polish enclave filled with bakeries. It makes me wish I wasn’t such a monoglot!
