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Wolf sketch

The sketch logo plays on the idea that the wolf as the mother is sleeping and guarding the cubs with her tail wrapped around them. In this case the cubs are replaced with the ROMA characters which can then be related that the wolf is guarding the city of rome as its symbol also.
Quick exploration [...]

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Trying out Typekit

If you are reading this and it does not look like some hand written script typeface, you are either using a RSS reader (click on header to go to the blog post to get the real rendering) or you are using an old browser that does not support CSS3 yet in this case try opening [...]

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The Ikea Catalog Type in the Future

I think we all share a surprise at the new Ikea catalog and how can Ikea say that only the non designers will notice changes. I believe that everybody notices bad typography it is just that us as designers distinguish it and feel a deeper impact by bad visual data. Normal people are too used [...]

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Ars Electronica Festival 09 – Human Nature

What happened at this years Ars Electronica Festival. Well we saw a lot of robots, including Gemini the first clone robot coming from Japan and he was really life like as the author also walked around. At the Linz University the MIT media lab was this years featured university with some nice gadgets for rapid [...]

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Times and Arial. The only things we are allowed to make.

We had our first Typography practice lessons today. A good enough reason to be really frustrated. They totally f*cked everything up. The last ounce of creativity that could be there was stripped away by 50 or more examples of what we must NOT make. No type that is too square, none that is too high, [...]

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Photo series: Paths / Poti

Paths are always showing us our way, but sometimes there isn’t anything at the end of it, sometimes it can just be the journey…
Poti nam vedno kažejo smer kamor moramo iti, vendar ni nujno, da je na koncu naše poti nekaj, lahko je bila le pot…
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Denmark, Snow, Ribe.

Yesterday we went for another drive this time to the west parts to the beach and town of Ribe. As I am too lazy to write anything else I’ll just tell you it was freezing windy again, but the scenery was so beautiful that it was worth it. With that I say Denmark farewell for [...]

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Council of Elders

Today the Council of Elders met and sat around discussing the present and future of the world. Their decision was that it is Cold.

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Denmark, Sand, Desert and Windmills

Wuhu, so the Denmark trip is still going on. We just got back from the north side, a town called something simmilar to Skeen, Aarhu and Aarbolg or kind of like that, don’t really know all the Danish cities we visited, but they were quite nice. On the most north part we visited their nice [...]

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Denmark, Fog, Sun and Mushrooms

This week I’m visiting Peter in Denmark where he’s on an Erasmus exchange. As I’ve been to Denmark before it still looks the same. Looooots of bricked buildings, simplistic blocks of flats without curtains, green fields of grass everywhere and the Denmark flags lurking everywhere. Its quite cold an windy and so far we’ve seen [...]

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