78rpm sleeves [4] tomorrow: Decca!
Regal! Olympia! Elite!
78rpm sleeves [3] Cristal, Odeon, Imperial, Olympia, Elite… all very serious and pompous names. Even amusement…
Pathé! Telefunken!
78rpm sleeves [2] The empty Pathé sleeve is not part of the box-collection. More to follow.
Cristal! Odeon! Imperial!
78rpm sleeves [1] The music I grew up with was always associated with imagery. En plus, I…
Boxed treasure
78rpm sleeves — I have a weakness for old paper. I like the surface it has…
Blink!
plate on a wall — A few square centimetres from my weekend. Château de Scry, Mettet
Beurfin
Hoogstraat/Rue Haute, Brussels.
kraakhaas…
is the rebaptized crackhouse FontStructor Paul Hunt pointed out that House Industries already have a font…
Sublimation
wildclover fontstruct Currently working on wildclover, a Fontstruction that is trying to explore the boundaries of…
Blink!
Return of Fondue Forks Nasty forks. Wicked type. Now there’s twelve…
safehouse/crackhouse
glyph overview For links to and downloads from Fontstruct, see the former post.
safehouse/crackhouse
new fontstructions Two new small grid fontstructions I made in FontStruct. Safehouse is a minimal stencil font….
Blink!
Fondue Forks
School Journal 1962
Almanach Pestalozzi School started again, so I thought it appropriate to dig up this small pocket…
Blink!
Cicero tape measure This tape measure has cm and cicero units. The cicero unit used to…
De Muze en de seizoenen
Jenny Dalenoord Did you know there are people amongst us who get a happy feeling when…
Wizard of Oz
Power type! A cheap pocket edition in glossy orange ink on a fake leather embossed paper….
De Muze en het Meisje
Dutch gift This beautiful little book cost me a few euros in a bookstore in the…
Two sisters?
needlework type To finish the series on needle-crafted type with a sunday feeling, here are two…
Blink!
Super Tailor’s Tape I feel that if things stay on your table for a long time,…
Colourful Bindings
Alexis Keunen This colourful lot is part of the Livre du Mois collection, published for a…
Blink!
Primetta In Blink! I show stuff that tickles the corner of my eye. Shop window in…
Tabloid!
Dick Bruna Striking but unconventional. Four shouting elements – an extra bold slab serif title, a…
Power type!
book cover Seen at Books by the Sea, a nice second hand and antiquarian bookshop in…
Book design
grand openings 2 Another flea market finding, this book by Léon Bloy first struck me for…
Analog pixel art 5
faience? Ninove, today. Postscript has taken over the market…
Analog pixel art 4
Another stitched alphabet Another great exercise, dated 1921. While she has all the other N’s right,…
Book design
Grand openings! Starting a series on book design, I like to present you a book I…
Analog pixel art 3
Bonsoir! This piece comes from a lot I found in a ‘brocante’ in the Blaesstraat (Rue…
context
Picture taken last june. Amazing how a Garamond lowercase a coexists with some graffiti and a…