December 10th, 2006
CUSTOM TYPE - Ballet Mechanique, the music-outlet of Jeroen Borrenbergs (36), is live. After a few years of silence the Dutch graphic designer is getting ready to release new tracks. His website is a state of the art peace of artwork, superbly programmed by ComaKid.
For his upcoming promotion Jeroen asked me to create a special font for him. As a co-founder and graphic designer at Stoere Binken Design he creates his own artwork and therefor had some specific wishes. The font should have ’soul’. He gave me some sketches for his logo that I should use as a starting point. The result is a very narrow, round and warm, kinda techno, monocased font called Ballet Mechanique (what else).
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October 8th, 2006
HOT NEWS - Nike uses Insider Regular Roman as textfont for their Annual Report 2005.
Download the Annual Report 2005 as pdf and see for yourself.
Too bad they didn’t ask me for the Insider Regular Roman LF, because the Insider Regular Roman they bought has old style figures.
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October 1st, 2006
CUSTOM TYPE - Plan A Ontwerp is a graphic design studio based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
Frank Vogt, owner and graphic designer, wanted to redesign the studio’s corporate identity. He made some sketches for the logo and asked me to fill in the gaps and make a complete font out of it.
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June 5th, 2006
FRESH FONT - Boris Kahl from Volcano Type asked me if I would like to submit a font for their new Bastard book.
The idea behind Bastard was to bring together photographers, writers, illustrators, graphic designers, musicians and typographers to create a solid and unique book that also functions as a work of art. Bastard is all about cultural identity and the development of new things by sampling, mixing and crossing.
Beside pictures from the photographer Christian Ernst and illustrations from Andre Rösler, the new fonts will be presented. Writers all around the world contributed short stories to complete the book.
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IN PROGRESS (03-03-2006) - Finally I took the time and started creating my own corporate font called ‘Savant’. I always planned to have a corporate font for myself, but never found the time for it. I got fed up with that and descided to start working on it right away. This black version will be the starting point for the rest of the fonts within the upcoming Savant Package.
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