On a recent trip to Beirut for typo.graphic.beirut05, one always had the niggling feeling that for every educational minute spent inside the lecture theatre there was an equally inspiring world of signage just down the road. Here are a few images that I collected whilst on the sojourn. All photographic images by Stephen Banham of The Letterbox. For further information that provides a context and relates to these images: the web site of the Lebanese independence movement.