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Phospho in Typo Lyrics
June 01, 2010
I was asked to contribute an artwork for MAGMA's "Typo Lyrics - The Sound of Fonts". The project is about illustrating song lyrics through font designs. On analogy with the traditional classification of fonts, the book is organized into eleven chapters, each of which treats a particular font family and song lyrics from a particular musical style. The musical counterpart of my blackletter face "Adhesive Nr. Seven" could not have been more appropriate than "The Ace Of Spaces" by Motörhead \m/. I worked on this together with Felix Auer, who built us a heavily fuming Jack-Daniels-No.7-driven engine. The book was edited by Slanted and presented on May 22 at Typo Berlin.
Apartment lettering is great
March 14, 2010
A Los Angeles native, Lesley Marlene Siegel began her "Apartment Living is Great" series in the early '90s, as the photographic documentation of Southern California apartment building names and signs. It now comprises over 2,300 images. The majority of these buildings are affectionately known as "dingbats," boxy '50s and '60s era apartment complexes, their blank facades adorned with the signs that Siegel has been compelled to document over the past eleven years. 90 of those fascinating letterings were published in the "Apartment Living is Great" catalog by Melbourne's Outre Gallery.
Outre Gallery
Typodarium 2010 is out!
October 20, 2009
And you should act fast, if you want to get hands your copy. It's (temporarily, i hope) unavailable on Amazon. The Thalia store on Mariahilferstrasse is also sold out after I bought mine today. This is definetely not the type of calendar you can grab for free at your local branch bank on december 31st: Each day presents a different font, so you can bury your fears that you won't discover enough new fonts in 2010. January 26 and September 3 are fonts you are already familiar with, as they come from the foundry, whose site you are surfing just now!
Torn off pages can be stored in its collector's box. Only, what the hell is this marriage proposal all about, they are talking about on the packaging???
Slanted - Typo Weblog and Magazine
Pedicure, anybody?
September 29, 2009
One sunny afternoon when I walked to Yppenplatz with a friend of mine, a heap of metal letters grabbed our eyes at a building site. My friend brought it home the next day (otherwise the letters would have been thrown away). Instead of the one "Friseur" sign we expected, it turned out to be two complete "Fußpflege" ("foot care") signs. They must have been on that corner house for the last 40 years! And now they look good on my wall.
MyFonts.de launched
August 31, 2009
A couple days ago MyFonts.de went online. The german branch of MyFonts.com is more than a direct translation of its mothersite. Jan Middendorp, who works for MyFonts and lives in Berlin, focuses on selected German-speaking designers and their fonts and publishes articles on the German, Austrian and Swiss Design culture. Thumbs up!
Some call it bootlegging, I call it DIY
August 4, 2009
This is a Blondie fanshirt design I did for my girlfriend's birthday. It was printed with a ink-based Anajet, which would have given perfect results, if only I'd chosen an even fabric...
Luxus Brut featured in MyFonts' Rising Stars
June 13, 2009
MyFonts sends out an email newsletter to their subscribers, introducing popular new fonts of the month. June was proclaimed "Script Month", and Luxus Brut got a quite nice review:
"Created in Vienna, Austria, Luxus Brut is a formal script inspired by a shop sign in that city’s sumptuous historical centre. With its large and distinctive capital letters that won’t share the baseline with the lowercase, it breathes the spirit of hand-lettered 1950s signage. Its wide spacing and low x-height make it an excellent choice for posters, magazine headlines, logotypes, branding and any design that requires a touch of luxury and sensuality. Luxus Brut is a luxury OpenType font that comes with a wide array of special endings, underlining swashes and a powerful contextual alternate feature for use with OpenType-savvy layout applications."
MyFonts' Rising Stars, June 2009
A font a day
February 19, 2009
As in 2009, H. Schmidt Mainz will publish a tear-off calendar for 2010 showcasing 365 different fonts by designers from all over the world. The front page of each sheet shows the date, while the reverse side diplays the background info, designers and reference sources. January 26 and September 3 are phospho-days, and I'm sure they're gonna be good days to you.
Typodarium 2010
June 01, 2010
I was asked to contribute an artwork for MAGMA's "Typo Lyrics - The Sound of Fonts". The project is about illustrating song lyrics through font designs. On analogy with the traditional classification of fonts, the book is organized into eleven chapters, each of which treats a particular font family and song lyrics from a particular musical style. The musical counterpart of my blackletter face "Adhesive Nr. Seven" could not have been more appropriate than "The Ace Of Spaces" by Motörhead \m/. I worked on this together with Felix Auer, who built us a heavily fuming Jack-Daniels-No.7-driven engine. The book was edited by Slanted and presented on May 22 at Typo Berlin.
Apartment lettering is great
March 14, 2010
A Los Angeles native, Lesley Marlene Siegel began her "Apartment Living is Great" series in the early '90s, as the photographic documentation of Southern California apartment building names and signs. It now comprises over 2,300 images. The majority of these buildings are affectionately known as "dingbats," boxy '50s and '60s era apartment complexes, their blank facades adorned with the signs that Siegel has been compelled to document over the past eleven years. 90 of those fascinating letterings were published in the "Apartment Living is Great" catalog by Melbourne's Outre Gallery.
Outre Gallery
Typodarium 2010 is out!
October 20, 2009
And you should act fast, if you want to get hands your copy. It's (temporarily, i hope) unavailable on Amazon. The Thalia store on Mariahilferstrasse is also sold out after I bought mine today. This is definetely not the type of calendar you can grab for free at your local branch bank on december 31st: Each day presents a different font, so you can bury your fears that you won't discover enough new fonts in 2010. January 26 and September 3 are fonts you are already familiar with, as they come from the foundry, whose site you are surfing just now!
Torn off pages can be stored in its collector's box. Only, what the hell is this marriage proposal all about, they are talking about on the packaging???
Slanted - Typo Weblog and Magazine
Pedicure, anybody?
September 29, 2009
One sunny afternoon when I walked to Yppenplatz with a friend of mine, a heap of metal letters grabbed our eyes at a building site. My friend brought it home the next day (otherwise the letters would have been thrown away). Instead of the one "Friseur" sign we expected, it turned out to be two complete "Fußpflege" ("foot care") signs. They must have been on that corner house for the last 40 years! And now they look good on my wall.
MyFonts.de launched
August 31, 2009
A couple days ago MyFonts.de went online. The german branch of MyFonts.com is more than a direct translation of its mothersite. Jan Middendorp, who works for MyFonts and lives in Berlin, focuses on selected German-speaking designers and their fonts and publishes articles on the German, Austrian and Swiss Design culture. Thumbs up!
Some call it bootlegging, I call it DIY
August 4, 2009
This is a Blondie fanshirt design I did for my girlfriend's birthday. It was printed with a ink-based Anajet, which would have given perfect results, if only I'd chosen an even fabric...
Luxus Brut featured in MyFonts' Rising Stars
June 13, 2009
MyFonts sends out an email newsletter to their subscribers, introducing popular new fonts of the month. June was proclaimed "Script Month", and Luxus Brut got a quite nice review:
"Created in Vienna, Austria, Luxus Brut is a formal script inspired by a shop sign in that city’s sumptuous historical centre. With its large and distinctive capital letters that won’t share the baseline with the lowercase, it breathes the spirit of hand-lettered 1950s signage. Its wide spacing and low x-height make it an excellent choice for posters, magazine headlines, logotypes, branding and any design that requires a touch of luxury and sensuality. Luxus Brut is a luxury OpenType font that comes with a wide array of special endings, underlining swashes and a powerful contextual alternate feature for use with OpenType-savvy layout applications."
MyFonts' Rising Stars, June 2009
A font a day
February 19, 2009
As in 2009, H. Schmidt Mainz will publish a tear-off calendar for 2010 showcasing 365 different fonts by designers from all over the world. The front page of each sheet shows the date, while the reverse side diplays the background info, designers and reference sources. January 26 and September 3 are phospho-days, and I'm sure they're gonna be good days to you.
Typodarium 2010