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…

Got this tip from Maria at Studio 3. Worth a check! Here is their description:

“Hyperactivitypography from A to Z is an activity book for typographers illustrated in a nostalgic vintage style to give it a sweet and childlike look. The book is packed with activities, ranging from silly to hard core nerdiness. It’s great to test your skills on and to learn new things while having fun! Who said typography had to be stiff and boring?”

Flip through the whole book – or order it – from www.hyperactivitypography.com!

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.

As we´ve stated earlier, we are collaborating with the design festival VARSKO! to make the sweetest  typographical event known to mankind come to life in Trondheim. The city of our heart. Now we can release the first name on our beautiful list. We´re proud to announce that we, on the 3rd of july, are screening the award winning documentary Typeface. We have blogged about the movie before, but now we give you the Norwegian premiere.  Typeface, by Justine Nagan, is a a documentary on American typography and graphic design. Read more here.

Enjoy the trailer:

Calligraffiti is a combination of calligraphy and graffiti. It is also a sweet site filled with nice typography and images that will get both graffiti artist and calligraphic people to wet their pants. The man with the plan is Niels Shoe Meulman. He also just released the Calligraffiti book (buy it here) . I, for one, am putting that book on my wish list for christmas (Hi mom).

Jared Benson, founder of the typographic community  Typophile (who just last week celebrated it´s 10 year anniversary) tweeted that Matthew Butterick, former Font Bureau type designer (Herald Gothic, Hermes FB, etc) launches Typography For Lawyers. Butterick now has his own law office, and as a former type designer he saw that “legal typography is often poor”. That is why he made Typography for lawyers. I love it! Hope to see more sites like that. Anybody out there who has spare time on their hands, feel free to do something with these ideas: “Typography for truck drivers” or “Typography for phd students” or perhaps “Typography for plumbers”.

Anyhow. The coolest thing with Typography for lawyers, is that it´s a bunch of good reading there for anyone that want their papers to look good, or just learn about typography. In other words, you don´t need to be a lawyer to learn from this site. So typography rookies and others, read through the site, and take notes.  Bonus: If you are a twitter addict like me, follow Typography For Lawyers here, and Font Bureau here.

Everyone have heard about the earthquake that hit Haiti. A nice project that raise from this sad event is The Haiti Poster Project. I have browsed thru the site and there is some sweet bites among the poster load. One that cached my eye was this one by Alonzo Felix. Why? Because I like the simplicity of it, and of course the good vibe. This is no “pitty-me-poster”. I like.

There is also possible for you to send in your poster to this project. More info here.

And BTW there is a similar, but not related,  event going down in Oslo, Norway at the end of may. Design for Haiti. Check it out. (Norwegian)

This is a bit old, but came across Marin Van Uhm on the wide web, and this nice hand crafted face. So easy and still full of character.

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.

A former student of mine Kjersti Barli aka Svingtrapp have been playing with the art of letterpress. Kjersti is currently studying visual communication at KhiO. On her blog she released some pictures of the process. I´m jealous, I also want to letterpress. So to ease my pain I´ve stolen some of the pics, and I´ll happily share them with you. I hope you forgive me Kjersti.

I´m not a crook.

Came across this collective whom creates lovely crafted typework. Quoted from their site: “The ill-studio is a French group of collaborators devoted to fine arts. Our goal is to bring ten individuals together, working in various artistic areas such as graphic design, photography, typography, illustration, video, motion design, etc.”

A playful font by Byggstudio from Sweden.

via Junkculture + SwissMiss

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.

Reykjavik based graphic designer and illustrator Siggeir Hafsteinsson with a nice font!

Dissociative identity disorder is a typeface with two distinct personalities.
Following in the tradition of Tyler Durden and “Jack” (Ed Norton’s character) in Fight Club,
the typeface is at once an aggressive risk taker, and a solid, trustworthy friend.

Great concept and excecution on this branding project for onedotzero by Wieden + Kennedy London. By interacting with the audience they create a fluid and changing brand for onedotzero. Check it out!

Mats Ottdal went one year above me in school at RMIT Communication Design, Melbourne. He is now working in NYC at Stag&Here. I remember his graduate folio, and I’m delighted to see more of his recent type driven work.

Check out Mats Ottdal’s site, and his typeblog.

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.

New release from Hoefler & Frere-Jones. Vitesse is as H&FJ say a slab serif for the 21st century. Read the story behind Vitesse, see the different styles, and take it for a test drive here.

I took Vitesse for a spin, I highly recommend it.

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.

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…

Check out the work of Ronald Kurniawan.

We’ve got some great names contributing on the VARSKO! wishes starting 1st of december here in Trondheim. A great projected christmas calendar on Vår Frue Kirke (Old historic church in Trondheim). We can’t wait to see the results of artists like Alex Trochut, Si Scott, Chris Rubino, Are Kleivan, Jens K Styve and many more. Here’s just a taste of the work Alex Trochut are making.

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

I´ll stab you with my P…

Typeface aka “Captain A-Face”, is a Marvel vigilante. Typeface is a army veteran, and a former sign painter, with bad mental health. Even though he has no powers, he have won over Spider Man once, and, I might ad, he has weapons: A variety of letters-based weaponry adorning his costume (including a razor-sharp letter “P”). He is my, hands down, favorite Marvel, even though he was killed in 2007. R.I.P.

I saw this sweet, sweet tee on a twitter-link. I just bought it right away. I can´t wait till summer. Woho! Anyone up for some wrestling?

The tee is made by Mule design studio. Lovely.

BTW: El Vética is also known as El Kernudo…. hihi.

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!

Nice output on this project from Adolfo Correa for the “designers against tibetan abuse” . Good to see pieces of the process as well. Thanks Trond :-)

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…

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…

You’ve surely seen his work before, but I had to post some of his work. It just makes me happy! Julien Valleé is a crazy skilled designer from Montreal, Canada. Truly hand crafted amazing designs.

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.

Some of us from HelloTypo™ is going to speak about type, and why we love it, at DesignSpirer 09.

Place: Dokkhuset/Trondheim.

Time: 7. october/12:30- 15:00.

Prepare for typerfection.

Edenspiekermann Wins Two Red Dot Awards.

I stumbled upon this beautiful work on fontshop`s twitter account. On FontFeed I read: “Edenspiek­ermann’s works for Hering Berlin and Utrecht City Theatre have been awarded with a red dot award for outstanding design. With more than 11,000 submis­sions from 61 countries, the inter­na­tional “red dot design award” is the largest and most renowned design compe­tition in the world.”

Here`s some pics of the wonderful work:

I hope you are keen on reading more, but I`m a bit lazy (like the dog I am), so please be a quick brown fox and  read (and se more pictures) more here: More stuff

Popped by Onionmag just now, and damn the first post I saw was a killer!

Bela Borsodi made these letters for WAD magazine. Beautiful!

Thanks Onionmag!

I´ve been to the tattoo man to day and done this:

Result:

Our friend Stian´s work is featured at Typography Served.

Stian says (via Twitter): “The Shakespeare project I made in colloboration with Simon Egli is featured at typography observed:”

Check out the works of Laura Alejo, and Hush whom makes great motion.

Just had to blog my mother’s freehand icing type.
One day I will make a typeset of her specimens!

HOT DIGGITY DAMN!

I saw an amazing concept on FormFiftyFive yesterday, and I just had to tell our readers about it. Jas Bhachu is a student (!!!) at Liverpool School of Art & Design. Not only is his portfolio amazing and clever, but he have mada a Rubik’s Cube Font Generator. It works as an regular Rubik´s Cube, but it generates type, and works as a stamp. Again I say: DAMN!

more here

(I din`t have time to crop the images, sorry)