helloVARSKO! is history. The event was so smooth. People enjoyed the day from A to Z. VARSKO!, Kreativt Forum Trondheim and Grafill Trøndelag, helped us to unfold an amazing happening. Two great and inspiring talks from one of our favorite sweeds Robert Lindström from North Kingdom and Spanish designers Alex Trochut & Marta Cerdà.

Aasmund and Alex preparing the equipment. Soon the magic begins.

Robert going through the steps of the Adidas Teamgeist case. The crowd applauded every showreel he presented. Very cool.

Marta talking in living color.

Alex on how he made the font Neo Deco. Marta and Alex actually did they first ever talk together as a team at helloVARSKO! We recommend their talk to anyone, everywhere. People came up to us and said they was so inspired they had to run home to draw asap.

Both the swede and the spanish couple got a small present from us. A book by Norwegian photographer Rune Johansen, and a pair of jeans from local jeans brand Johnny Love.

After the talks, the movie and the barbecue, The Last Ninja played to an exited audience. Click here to see video.

Amazing Margaret Berger played with a full band. Super sweet. People danced till they spilled their beer on each other. Lovely.

If you missed out on our marvelous.

More pics and videos to come…

OFFF 2010 seem to have a really good focus on typography for their  opening titles and trailers. Here are some from this year, enjoy!

The helloVARSKO! posters have landed. Ah, beautiful. What a line up! It´s designed by the magical CMNCTN. The backside is designed by the spanish wonder Alex Trochut for helloVARSKO! The poster is printed at Fagtrykk and the very cool people at Arctic Paper is responseble for the lovely paper.

Holy Cow! Interactive Art Director and Co-founder of North Kingdom, Robert Lindstöm, aka Designchapel, is coming to helloVARSKO!.

We understand that you are shocked *the sound of jaws hitting the ground*. If your jaw did not hit the floor, it´s probably because you haven´t heard about North Kingdom or Designchapel. Well, you are in for a treat. Robert and the North Kingdom guys are one of the most innovating dudes around. For the second time the last three years, they are on the 2010 Creative 50 list. It’s a list where Ad Age and Creativity celebrate the year’s most inspiring thinkers and innovators (other people on that list: Lady Gaga, Daniel Ek, Michael Lebowitz and Spike Jonze and a 45 others…

In 2004 North Kingdom created Vodafone Future which became the worlds most awarded website that year. They have won a pile of shiny awards at the Cannes Cyber Lions, a couple of D&AD awards, gold here, gold there. Gold everywhere. They work with clients like Vodafone, Adidas, Coke Zero, WWF, Toyota and so on…

So now, with the line up we have put together, you no longer have an excuse for not participating in our fabulous event.

While you wait, take a look at this:

helloVARSKO! will make you smarter, more creative and prettier. No Lie!

The exclusive line of speakers we have had in the four year history of VARSKO! looks like this: Bjørn Brochmann (NOR), Yokoland (NOR), Dizel&Sate (S), Chris Rubino (USA), Si Scott (UK), Ian Anderson (UK), Alex Trochut (ESP), Marta Cerdá Alimbau (ESP), Robert Lindström (S).

Oh, yes. You better believe it. It is true. HelloTypo™ and friends delivers again. We have been so lucky that the Spanish wonder, mr Alex Trochut, have decided to pay us a visit. 3rd of july he and his talented girlfriend (and coworker) Marta Cerdà Alimbau are taking the podium and going to do a show&tell. We are so pleased that Alex and Marta is taking the trip up to the capitol of mustaches, Trondheim, to do a talk and drink Dahls with us. So in addition to the Typeface screening we now give you two sweet lecture holders. Lucky you!

Alex even made a teaser design for us.

Want to see more of the magic work of Alex and Marta click “read more”.

The five images above is made by Alex. Be a clever noodle and bookmark his Behance site also. (we presume you all ready have bookmarked his personal site)

This one is a collaboration between Alex and Marta.

The last images is made by Marta. Check out her profile on Behance also!

So now you can start saving up your paychecks. Come to Trondheim and Byscenen to enjoy a full day of VARSKO! heaven at helloVARSKO!

helloVARSKO! is a VARSKO! and HelloTypo™ initiative in collaboration with Kreativt Forum Trondheim, Grafill Trøndelag, Byscenen and BrukBar/Supa. You better get your party shoes polished, this is going to get rough.

Siggi Eggertsson is speaking at Visuelt dagene in Oslo tomorrow. If you are in the area, be there or be *drawing a square in the air*  (like Uma in Pulp Fiction did). He also updatet his site a few weeks ago. Loads of typography and other beautifulness. Check check check it out. Below you can see a rejected magazine cover he made. (why they rejected this I don´t know. Stupid.)

One of my favorite Norwegian designers Robin Snasen Rengård has made loads of sweet stuff. And this Rumble in Rhodos cd is filled to the rim with sweetness. Playful but tight. Love it. I urge you to check out his site. ASAP.

Got a tip from Marte to check out Rachel Thomas. Nice experimental type made with found objects or as the cupcake pillows whom I think she has made herself, I hope!

Found this sweet site via ILT. Typenuts is a site with a bunch of free iPhone and Desktop wallpapers for you to download. And if you are a designer with the love of type, you can send your design to the makers, and perhaps your design will be among the sweetness.

©Tobias- Battenberg

Sweet. More from A Love Letter For You. We posted a piece from this project earlier. A Love Letter For You is a project by Stephen Powers. I love this project. A lot. Read more about the project.

Sometimes I wonder if other people are as passionate about typography as we at HelloTypo™ are. The answer is always: YES. Just a little trip around on the Google roller coster, and you can find all kind of screwed up type nerds with all sorts of weird ideas. I like it.

These people for is one example:

Do you see what font it is? (if not, shut down your computer and smack yourself in the head with it)

A clever gentleman from Milan named Matteo Gualandris have made a magazine called “Science Fiction Typography”. It contains an analytical story of typographic used in America’s most popular science fiction magazines published between 1930 and 1970. The main focus is on cover headlines. To make the magazine look old and used Matteo had it stuffed down in his back pocket for days.

More pics of this marvelous (pun intended) magazine here.

After yesterdays talk, I found my self bold enough to post an old type sketch of mine. This was made for a project we had couple of years ago. Think it was early 2007. The sketch was suppose to be, if it worked out (witch it did not), the heading for the famous UREDD calendar. Anyhow, here is my sketch:

Stuff I used: clay, pencil & photoshop.

Kreativ Forum Trondheim arranges their regular happaning Fredagspils tonight. We (HelloTypo™) are going to talk about type, show some sweetness and get the beer drinking people to play with markers. So If you are in T-town, be smart and pop by Blæst at 16.00.

Found this image, made by Sebastian Cremers. Hope people are ready for some listening tonight.

Hagilda make traditional hebrew type the funky super nice way. Gotta love that fancy jabberwocky look of type you just don’t understand at all. Content doesn’t get in your way. direct link to the sample PDF.

Oslo based Ole Fredrik Ekern is a design student at Westerdals School of Communication . He have made a super sweet font (Gami) by folding paper. It works both in 3D and as vector. Nicely done.

More pictures here

Faith47 have made a sweet mural in Johannesburg. I like it. Big and bold.

(via Wooster )

Me and fellow type club member, Aasmund, played with pencils and paper yesterday. I took (crappy iPhone-) pictures of it, and loudly said that I would post them here. So here goes.

I know the pics sucks, and it´s not the greatest font design in the world, but f**k it, it was fun.

Autobahn is an dutch design agency with a love for type. Autobahn designs special graphical projects, often with an illustrative and typographical angle. I really like the way they play with type in this particular project (glad I´m not themodel). The project I´m talking about is called Arts In Area Development.

“Arts In Area Development is a collaboration between artists and area developers. Together they are looking for a way to provide a place for art in areas yet to be developed. Will the implantation of art and culture into area development projects increase the quality of the development plans? What possibilities will there be for the artists? And will there arise involvement with the future area residents?”

Read more about the project, and see all the “behind the scene” pictures here. It´s sweet, promise.

My friend and artist Bjørn Kowalski Hansen (one of the co-founders of the legendary t-shirt brand and art project Håkki™ (check out the super cheesy and fun intro on this site) ) has some sweet art projects going on. I went through some of his work, and stole the type relevant pictures. (sorry Bjørn) If you like these pictures, please visit Bjørn here. There is loads of this over at his site. Enjoy!

I´m really looking forward to seeing this movie: Typeface. From the site - “Typeface focuses on a rural Midwestern museum and print shop where international artists meet retired craftsmen and together navigate the convergence of modern design and traditional technique.” Mmmh! We´ve posted the Typeface trailer before, but now they have made some sweet posters to:

by: Nick Sherman

by: Ashley Pigford

See the rest.

Support the movie.

Luke Lucas have made a typographic title treatment  for an article in the latest edition of Lifelounge Magazine – The Dirty Edition on swingers in America’s bible belt.

Slippery and hot. Lifelounge Magazine has not only cool typo inside their mag, oh no, their covers are also sweet bites for your eyes. I recommend that you check check check them out and bookmark the site or subscribe to the magazine.. Here is some samples:

Evbjorn tweeted about this amazing project; The Apphabet. A font composed out of existing iPhone App icons. Freaking lovely! The concept is by Ine Reijnen, and the design is by the different app-makers. You can even download it and have some geeky fun. I did.

(btw: check out the number “2″ in the apphabet… seen it before? :) )

Wenche from OnionMag guided us, via Twitter, to this site. 15 great examples of artworks based on typography. Here is some of my favorites:

This one by Sick System from Moscow:

And mos def this one (I don´t know who made it):

This one is quite funny. And I might ad it´s a t-shirt. Source.

And this poster would fit nicely on my wall… It´s made by Happycentro.

BTW: Happycentro deserves their own blog post. Amazing work at their site!

After my daughter went to bed to night I sneaked out her box with toys, and just started writing with them. Toys are fun.

PS. do not tell my daughter that i borrowed her toys with out asking…

Our friend (and fellow type club member) Stian W. Bugten and his buddy Simon P. Egli has worked on a font the for a while now. We blogged about the project some time ago, but things have happened since then.

Copy+Pasted from Simons site:
“Sea Ark Sheep a contextual typeface.
This font is getting its look only by typing. See a preview on vimeo.
Started as a project at Central Saint Martins, finally this font is getting released early 2010 by the publisher Die Gestalten. For a preview a small serie of riso prints has been published. (100 sets of 7 A3)”

Lucky me. I got my hands on one of those preview sets. I took some pictures of the sweetness on my kitchen floor.

Well. Enough talk. Here´s the pics:

On Stians Flickr there is some photos from the preview printing in Zurich. Check it out.

Looking forward to seeing the font on sale at Die Gestalten.

Nicely painted signs.

Photo ©Walker Evans. Buy it here.

I was out strolling on the internet, when I suddenly came across this sweet sweet site; Friends of Type. I tell you, no I urge you to bookmark it ASAP. Friends of Type was made like this. I love the simplicity. DIY. Here´s a taste:

©Friends of Type

I got a mail from my friend Rashid Akrim, from Onionmag,  today. Rashid have made a font. A Hand drawn font. It´s called After Tea. And since I have just finished my afternoon tea, it´s about time to show you the font. Enjoy.

A new year. A new blog post. A bunch of fun & found stuff. Ståles famous “Stumbled upon on a Saturday”.

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I got a sweet mail the other day. From Jonathan Calugi of Happy Lovers Town. With a free typeface download. What a great christmas gift! here is what Jonathan said: “YEP just not in time but i love to say happy holiday to everyone… from now to 1 january 2010 you can download this gift for you.. A new typeface ;)” And who am I to not share it with our visitors?? If you want it, you got it. Here. Thanks Jonathan! We love your work. Keep on truckin´.

Remember to download the typeface before 2010…

I was making some cookies earlier this afternoon. I got fed up with christmas shapes, so I made some HelloTypo cookies.

Sorry for the bad kerning, the plate was hot as hell.

Amazing type in the streets. All about this project here.

via Wooster

I´m loving this piece by Alexandre Farto aka Vhils.

via Wooster

I was doing a job for a client today. And in the breaks I painted on the wall with a Krink. All work no play makes Hello Typo boring. :)

My brother Thomas insist on prune filling in his berliner buns :-)

Came across this interesting project by Tania Alvarez called Fabric type. Her homepage and the Behance-gallery contains more typographic goodness and other experimental projects well worth checking out!

Stubled upon this cool flickr pool. Check it out!

FontShop is celebrating 20 years of delivering sweet, sweet digital fonts. It started with floppy disks, packed with the Spiekermann brothers font design, in 1989. Here is a really fun statistic site (yes, it is fun!) they have put together. Not only stats, but fun facts and more historical treats.

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Melkeveien made a really bautiful typeface for SDG and their client Statoil. Yes, it´s for the same profile as the much talked about redesigned logo… (Statoil and SDG is presenting the new profile at faglig frokost 9. desember at DogA (Oslo) ) I like the typeface. Good work Melkeveien!

Non-Format have released a new font available for purchase! Super cool. The fonts name is OTTO. Nice. If anyone wants to buy me a present, buy me this font. Thanks.  Read more and/or buy the font here…

Earlier this week Budstikka dropped the news (a bit to early, the writers was not quite done with it) about the world´s second largest piece ever. But Budstikka haven´t got all the inside info that one of Norways best and oldest rap groups, Gatas Parlament, got. Gatas Parlament loves graffiti. So they have posted a good long blog post about the pice on their site. I´ve stolen (with permission) some of the photos the rappers have taken. anyhow, back to the piece. The outline is made with over 250 liters of black paint. I love the work, an specially the ” can you see us from outer space?” sentence. :)

This photo is taken from a helicopter. ©Budstikka…

Photo ©Gatas Parlament.. .check out Aslak (the rapper) in the middle of the “R” in crew…

The worlds largest piece was made in LA last year (photo under). It was painted over this spring, so right now the FOS piece is the biggest in the world. (!)

I like type. I like graffiti.  This is spot on for me. Nice work!

(What do you think?)

(Sources: Twitter, Gatas Parlament, Underskog, Budstikka)

Back in the good old days I had a t-shirt brand named :pøbel (:pøbel means bully, hooligan, rascal etc). And just now, when I was researching type on the intergalactic internet, I stumbled upon this book; Body Type.

The book made me remember that I actually got people to tattoo my brand name and/or logo… Super fun. I thought I should share it with you, so her goes:

Three people got a :pøbel-tattoo before I stopped paying for the tattoos… This is over three years ago, but still I get people comming up to me at parties and such asking me for a tattoo…

BTW: I don´t buy people tattoos anymore…

Nice idea. Tape on fence. (via: fffffffffffffffff)

Stumbled upon this sweet thing on Behance. Eibatova Karina ( Eika ) have used pencil and drawn out the alphabet. her project idea was: To represent a letter in a natural form and appearance.  Nice! Check out more (details+video+story behind) here.  And while I`m at it, sharpen your pencils and draw me a picture. Thanks.