Dutch Type (reprint)

@lubalincenter @JanMiddendorp @slanted_blog Thanks, Lubalin team! Greetings from Berlin!

If you missed out on getting the great Dutch Type book from @JanMiddendorp now is a good time to grab a copy from @slanted_blog slanted.de/product/dutch-…

Sending my Dutch Type reprint to North America has become very expensive. Fortunately, Oak Knoll Books has a supply, now selling it at a very reasonable price. Today and tomorrow! oakknoll.com/pages/books/13…

Now online: my new Eye Blog post. A review of a unique book(let) about German-Dutch lettering artist/illustrator Helmut Salden, and his manually executed designs & sketches. Full-size! eyemagazine.com/blog/post/alwa…

Ten years ago today, Dutch lettering artist and designer Boudewijn Ietswaart passed away. His daughter Anna and I have chosen this day to present the Ietswaart Project – a book featuring his amazing cover designs and sketches. Read more, sign up: drukeditions.com/ietswaart-proj…

@espiekermann “Less is les” — that would be a nice wordplay for bilingual Dutch speakers. With a bit of liberty you could translate that as “Less is a lesson.”

A poster announcing “less is more” seems redundant. Judge for yourself: p98a.com/journal

My latest contributions to Fonts in Use. It’s all (forgotten?) music & design from the early 1970s! fontsinuse.com/uses/33955/ame… fontsinuse.com/uses/33380/mau…

@hhpapazian @Fustandfriends Thanks, Hrant. When you go to that page and click the link to the "background story”, you'll get more information about our (individual) activities and my motives to slowly step back. I can also forward you last Friday's newsletter.

@Fustandfriends :-( Good luck with things though. (BTW where's the Why? I'm curious, but couldn't find it in that link.)

Bad news, good news! Fust&Friends will leave the platform. Read why! We also want to share our entire collection at a ridiculous price, to make our typefaces accessible for those who like the fonts, but had no client to finance them — we can help. fustandfriends.com/type-library/c…

Read my booklet about the inventive Hans Bockting, published in Dutch in 2014, now online in English!

I am rereading this! Written by novelist Hunter Davies, it is probably the most relaxed and frankest Beatles book ever; it’s the only authorized Beatles biography. Published in 1968, I’m pretty sure I bought this hardcover 1st ed. 2 years later, at 14. Design by Alan Aldridge.

Belgian maverick designer-musician Tom Hautekiet (1970-2020). So sad. My obituary is now on the Eye Blog. eyemagazine.com/blog/post/tom-…

Anybody interested in a copy of our semi-factual Linotype history? It’s a bargain!

@MauriceMeilleur You’re an optimist, Maurice.

@johndberry I think it must have begun with the invention of the first tools. They allowed “us” to kill stronger animals and eventually rule over them from built abodes. And paint them on walls to visualize that power (and make religion out of that).

Musing on human stupidity, I found myself wondering: when did humans first think that we were the crown of creation?

Fust&Friends, information page. Here's screenshot, as only few of you will have seen it. I hope it made you grin. My favorite type writing: stuff that makes you grin. Getting rare. Self-praise promo, most of it. Oh, and Fust may close down later this year … with a final promo.

Some work can/should just go on. As a prelude to the jubilee Eye #100 – my piece on dynamic, perfectionist São Paulo designer Tereza Bettinardi. I love her lively yet meticulous work. eyemagazine.com/blog/post/cult…

@yanone The super-rich with power, and hunger for more, know which system they want to live in. A permanent crisis, in which opportunities to squeeze out the poorer offer themselves daily. And Trump knows how to keep them close — play a dooH niboR: steal from the poor, give to the rich.

Humanity is currently asking itself the system question: What system do we want to live in? I want to live in a system that's backwards engineered from justice, equality, trust, inclusion, sustainability. And I'm willing to give up privileges for it.

@espiekermann Unwahrscheinlich, wa? Ich: Gestern abend angefragt, heute gegen Mittag überwiesen. Berliner Bürokratie macht mich oft böse, aber diesmal funktioniert alles beispielhaft. #coronaberlin

3 Tage nach Antragstellung habe ich die Unterstützung für Selbstständige auf dem Konto. Also Berlin: geht doch! Danke, das hilft. #coronaberlin

@koeberlin Kann man so einen Ausweis auch online anfragen? Ich hatte immer zu viele Bücher zuhause, um mich bei der Bibliothek anzumelden.