Typophile

Where's the Wind

Nick Shinn

The name of a cottage/cabin on Georgian Bay.

here it isn't...

I don't know the answer my friend...

Somewhere in here?

Chicago?

What I like about the name is the interactivity, as it were. The cottage owner was a keen wind surfer, so he would only be reading the name when there was no wind, otherwise he’d be out on the lake.

That and the absence of a question mark, which would be wrong in a place name.

My guess is the letters were cut with a manual jig saw.

I also like the way the letters are arranged on a wavy baseline, or have perhaps been blown by the wind, although if there is no wind they should perhaps be becalmed!

Just to the right of that sign is someone lying under

OW

Tim

...and on the rear of the building...

Cute.

where's the double-U?

Blown away.

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