Rants

A not so good start

Malmö 29/1 - 2007

Dear Diary,
I have lot of stuff to finish this week. But I'm sick with a idiotic cold. Our internet is down, and I'm writing this by "borrowing" someone elses connection that floats around unprotected. Unfortuantely the connection is only good at the other end of the apartment so I have to walk there to check my mail.

And to further lower my selfesteem, my kids like to throw stuff at me...

Watch Adrian Snöboll.mov

... and laugh at me. My wife too.

Yes, I feel sorry for myself! (You know what Diary?! –I'm allowed!).

Todays signs

Any Type

New images of lettering at Flickr.

Riverdance Anno 1999

Eight years ago I was employed.
It was not fun.
But I had some fun co-workers.
One day while having a bore we came up with an idea – "Let's make a dance movie!"
And so we did.
We named the film "Street Feet".

This is your chance to see me and Linus do the dance of the river.
The movie was filmed and edited by Christian S.

The reason for this blog screening is another Christian S.(let's call him Christian 2) – who has been nagging me about seeing this film once again.

So here Christian 2 – this dance is for you.

Watch Street Feet

Enjoy!
(or be scared)

A cheer a year ago

A year ago Lotta I went to Dortmund because I was holding a lecturing at 33pt.

Not only did we meet a lot of great people (almost everyone of the german Fountain gang turned up) we also listened to a lot of great lectures. Unfortunately we missed the last day and the party because we had to fly home. (Well, actually we didn't fly home since there was a snow storm and all the flights were cancelled and we had to spend the evening and next day at the Holiday Inn in Ratingen West).

After the lecture each speaker get a nice type trophy on a pillow.

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Before each lecture there was a short movie clip with cheerleders cheering your name. A really fun idea, and I've been asking Herr Claudius for it, and finally today it arrived.

So here it is, the Peter Bruhn cheer:

See the movie

The film was made by the filmclass of German Adolfo Wiener during the winter semester 05/06 in collaboration with the 33pt team.

Song sheets

Not so political correct all the time, but amazing typography on these music sheets covers from the New York Public Library.

Link through Speak Up's Quipsologies

Fatso goes Wood Grotesque

Wood Grotesque based on ol' discontinued typeface Fatso:

This is just the early sketch stages (today), the inner countours may be subject to change..the stems are a bit off an equel size, curves need to be fixed a.s.o...

Mr. Hairdresser

Found Type

Yet another day, another walk and another sign! On our way for lunch at our favorite vietnamese for some Phở
More images at flickr..

Fountain Found Type

Any Type

Today I took a walk down to the harbour area, to visit my friend Ladislav's new studio. It was a nice walk, and I took some images of type on the way. Found this company...

More images at flickr.

Corpus Gothic in use

Symphonic Type Spree 2

Yet another use of Corpus Gothic for Malmö Symphonic Orchestra . As in the first post it's designed by dadada reklambyrå.

I like the musicians climbing (was climping) my letters.

(Click on the images to enlarge.)

Corpus Remake

I'm making a remake/new variation of Corpus Gothic (maybe it will be called Corpus Neue). The idea is a typeface that would work in a newspaper. Here's some images (click to enlarge):