Geotype Submission

The Geotype project charts the rich history of lettering and type forms that have established the identity of cities and towns around the world. Explore the map

How does this letter-form communicate its location?

3. Services Utility Cover Noticing the ignored. As you look down walking the city, the pathways are littered with service utility covers that provide access fro the utilities required to run the city. While some are ornate in their approach and others standardised, relics of ireland’s flirtation with an international style of typography that was rooted in the Dutch influx of the 1960’s can still be observed. An example of this is the now-defunct Telecom Eireann logo , the ‘Snail’, as the TE logo was nicknamed, which was rolled out in 1983 and lasted 16 years. The company’s trademark was designed by Peter Dabinett of Kilkenny Design Workshops (KDW), which was the world’s first state-sponsored design agency from 1963–1988 and combines the traditional Irish uncial forms of ‘T’ and ‘E’ in modern graphic simplicity.

Location

Pearse Street, Dublin, Ireland