Rants

Dagens boktips

A few weeks back I picked up two books from the post office:

Dangerous Curves by Doyald Young. Mr. Young is in my opinion the worlds greatets lettering artis, and he's got the work to prove it. He's also a fantastic typeface designer. Read my review on his typeface: Young Finesse at Typographica.
Read a review of the book by Chris Hamamoto at Typographica.

The other book is “Book of Letters From Аа to Яя” by Yuri Gordon. It's a very interesting and well designed book, and it's readable even though if you don't know a word of russian. Take a peak on a PDF excert.

A little chart of typophilic paraphernalia

126 minutes ago the truck driver, who was delivering our promtional posters for our upcoming new site, finally realised he was on his way out of town, and not going in. He turned his big vehicle around and finally found me jumping up and down outside our building. Here's some quick shots of the front and back of the 50 x 70 cm poster. Stefan also made a poster, and we will be bringing some with us when we go to TypeCon next week.

Early type experiment

Type experiment New Year (=Nytt År) 1980. (I was 10,5y).

Grüner Veltliner

Grüner Veltliner is a nice wine. My parents neighbour and his wife own a vacation apartement in the heart of the Grüner Veltliner area in Austria (Österreich). He decided to make his own wine and named it after himself – Sören. I helped with the label, trying to get it to look like an old classic (70s) wine label. The image of the village was painted by my dad.

I got some bottles and I can tell you – Sören was an exceptional good Grüner Veltliner.

Look what the postman brought.

Det fysiska och det psykiska

Yesterday, I got a copy of the CD I designed for my friend Andreas. In cooperation with singer Thomas Öberg from "bob hund" he has made a fantastic album. It also contains beautiful pin-hole camera shots by Daniel Zachrisson who really sets the mood of the album.
If you listen you can hear Lotta singing back-up vocals, and if you listen closely you can even hear me doing the same thing.

The album is out sometime in March-April on the Komplott label. If you're in Malmö on the 23rd you can see my wife and the others live on stage at Jeriko.

Listen here: http://www.myspace.com/andreasbertilsson

This is Rex

... a headline face for newspapers. I can't decide which way to go. Help me out – top or bottom?

Note 1: Yes, there was a typeface from Intertype named "Rex".

Note 2: Yes, I love Storm.

Fløde! Fløde! Fløde!

Taking a break from my slab yesterday, I did some more work on this face:

Note: "Flöde" is swedish for "flux". "Fløde" is danish Danishfor "cream".

Album on it's way

Working on the final fixes on Andreas Bertilsson's brilliant new album – "Det fysiska och det psykiska" . Due to be released in February.

[On a sidenote: Lotta and I can be heard somewhere in the distance on some of the songs as back-up/choir vocalists.]

MTHC07 – Part 2

If you're holding a type hinting conference you need to clean up the office.