Friday 20th of May – the workshop venue, normally a place where they do plastic surgery (!!) but this day was all about type. (check out the “E” in the building fasade)

I’m tired (from last nights Karlovackos) but ready for som typeface to face with the Croatians.

HOWtoWOW goes HelloTypo™.

We handed out letter cards to the workshop participants. The plan was to get the crowd to make the letter from ready mates they found round and about. But first we had to fill their heads and hearts with typographical joy and inspiration.

Aasmund with the last minute touch.

The CBS lunch room wall from the 1960′s by Herb Lubalin.

Aasmund talking about the statistics of typefaces used in a street in Melbourne. Not surprisingly, Helvetica is over represented…

But after a couple of hours talking about typography, it was time to make some.

The task: “Go out. Find ready mates. Build a letter. Take a photo” The crowd went out for fifteen minutes and came back with all sorts of sweet stuff. Flowers, dried up dog shit, bananas, car tires, medication, sugar, toys, rocks and loads more.

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Ø, W, ö, Ø, M

k, X, Q, M, o, d, I

Sliding typography.

Free buttons before lunch.

Lunch. Discussing typography, Flash, billboards, Busta Rhymes, beer prices and The Pope.

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Typface all over the place.

Checking out what we did before lunch.

The famous kerning discussion.

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Now we’re going to make a bitmap font of the ready made letters, free for download. It will be up in a couple of weeks.

We finished up the workshop with showing some type treatment done by the HelloTypo™ club members. The image over is of the font See Ark Sheep by Stian and his compadre.

I started the day out tired, and ended the day tired. But I was a happy camper. Oh’ the joy! We enjoyed to do the workshop, it was great fun.

We (Aasmund and Ståle) where invited to do a workshop at How to Wow in Zagreb the 20th of may (tomorrow). So today at 0530 AM we started our trip from Trondheim to Zagreb.

Waiting for the bus – the gif.

Tweeking the workshop whilst airborn.

Fun ad at Oslo Airport Gardemoen. Duplo ♥.

Flight two done, now to the last one. (the tee reads “Death to Helvetica”)

Stewart: “Do you want anything to drink?”

Ståle: “Do you have beer?”

Stewart (looks at Ståle like Ståle was born yesterday): “Sir, this is a German flight. What do you think?”

Ståle gets a beer…

Candy Script represented in Zagreb.

More beer label design.

The workshop is getting a finishing touch at the hotel.

Right now, this is one of 250 slides… This workshop is going to be a blast!

To Be Continued….

Fontfabric gives you loads of free fonts. Go have a blast!

(via Playmedesign)

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

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? :) )

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…

Aasmund bloged about the IQfont the other day. I liked the idea of a typeface being made by a car, so i googled a bit and BAM! I found a free download of the font. So, there you go… download and have fun.

peace.