EYE
ON THE STREET "Strolling
is the Gastronomy of the Eye" Honoré de Balzac
EDITORIAL
I
try as much as possible to banish the apathetic and bored gaze on the
street and to keep the eye attentive, in order to distract myself with
the infinite variety of forms, colors, sounds and odors that it offers.
I also try to heighten my curiosity for the history of a city, its culture,
its structure, and the way of life of its inhabitants as revealed by the
innumerable signs that the street harbors.
These are the objectives that the Eye on the street seeks to obtain
by publishing articles that are full of photos dedicated to the images
and words of the street. The magazine is constantly updated with new articles,
about two per month, including contributions from our readers.
The
magazine includes six sections: Graphic Archeology; Variations; Urban
Tourism; Views of the Street ; Graphic City and Back in the Days..
This section aims to show that a walk down the boring and "quotidian"
streets of a city, for as little as we pay attention to the details, can
teach us a lot about the way of life of its inhabitants and the culture
of the country being visited, in the very same way that you can learn
how a city has resolved the urban issues that it has had to face.
The
section Variations explores the variety of signs that can be found in
the street (signs, street signs, numbers, letters, manholes...) so as
to reveal their graphic richness or to discern the graphic identity of
a shop or public institution.
Ruavista's library of numbers gathers the numbers that can be seen in
the street in all of their diversity and richness.
To access it, click on a number.
The
articles in the Graphic Archeology section offer perspectives on the following
question: to what degree can the street's graphic traces of the past tell
us about the history of the inhabitants' daily life as well
as the evolution of the city itself?
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