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Wolf sketch

Peter Čuhalev — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:26:55 +0000

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 and sketch for a friendly passer by.

Trying out Typekit

Peter Čuhalev — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:38:36 +0000

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 the post in Firefox 3.5 or Safari 4.

Happy Birthday Guinness!

Yesterday Guinness celebrated 250 years, I think this should be mentioned in the blog post and made into an everlasting post.

And a Cheers to many more years of good beer making.

As you can see all the text is rendered with the two specific fonts that I included through Typekit.

The typefaces are: Learning Curve as the hand scripted one and Droid Serif as the second serif one, which also has different styles included.

For more on the typefaces from Typekit click on the bottom right icon and they also have more info about other regarding things. Only bad side at least for the Trial version is that it does not include č,ž,š characters.

P.S. I have some invites left if anyone wants to try it, leave a comment or mail or tweet…

The Ikea Catalog Type in the Future

Peter Čuhalev — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:17:13 +0000

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 to it and filter it out, but we get that feeling in the back of the head every time we go by and see it. I’m just hoping that Ikea will not actually go down this path…
Click on the picture for a bigger one on Flickr.

Ars Electronica Festival 09 – Human Nature

Peter Čuhalev — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:42:25 +0000

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 prototyping of industrial design and little electronics that interact between themselves regarding how you position them. But, the best part was this years theme for the Austrian national parade. It was Flood, as the ultimate flood from the bible where everything will be swept away. For that they made around 400 different animals that were strolling the whole day on Saturday around the city. And they outdid themselves on the fireworks again in the evening show. Oh almost forgot, the Gameboy music workshop and performance also rocked.

Lots of pictures on My Flickr account and a small preview below.

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

Peter Čuhalev — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:20:27 +0000

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, the ascending line between A must not be too low, it should not be bold. Then she said ok we will be doing CLASSIC either TIMES or ARIAL linear, like even if you wanted to do something different you can’t. Fcuk like the only lessons that I thought would be good this semester and they killed even those. Thanks university for killing the creativity in me.

Photo series: Paths / Poti

Peter Čuhalev — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:08:16 +0000

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…

Click on the picture to enter the series.

Denmark, Snow, Ribe.

Peter Čuhalev — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:34:58 +0000

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 now from Ljubljana again.

Thanks Peter for being a great host and Neli for the company!

Oh yeah, more photos at My Flickr Denmark thingie as usual (more to the bottom).

Council of Elders

Peter Čuhalev — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:39:53 +0000

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

Denmark, Sand, Desert and Windmills

Peter Čuhalev — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:20:56 +0000

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 beach with the sand dunes and some vegetation. It was really f****** cold and windy and cold and windy, oh and did I say it was cold. But it had a beautiful view on the Baltic sea and on the other side it was the Atlantic ocean. Still I wouldn’t go swimming in this weather, but I can imagine being it really nice in the summer time for some relaxing and doing nothing on the beach.

Our next stop was the desert in the middle of nowhere, and it was said that it moves for around 9m each year in North or well some direction. So you need to make sure where it is as one day it could end up in Germany or well Sweden, don’t really know which way its going. Oh, we also saw big ass, huge Windmills that went Swoosh, Swoosh, Swoosh when you are standing at the bottom. Reaaaaly cool feeling. On the way back the second day we also stopped in Horsens and K-Block and said hello to some of Peter’s friends. Well that’s what happened in the last few days.

Loads of pictures, well they were added to the previous batch at My Denmark Flickr photostream. And a few with this post for the feeling of cold and wind we had.

The desert dunes on the north beach.

Wanderers are often seen stranded in the Desert.

The ocean can lead you to a bright new world.

That small dot on the bottom next to the Windmill is me.

The path to Salvation.

Denmark, Fog, Sun and Mushrooms

Peter Čuhalev — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:29:28 +0000

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 Copenhagen and settled down in Kolding where we’ve gone for a nice walk around the town and down to the sea.

Its also really rare to see the Sun these days, well people say it takes months to see it sometimes. We had quite some luck today as half of the day was really sunny. Lucky us. It also snowed a bit. But still. SUN. Really, in Denmark.

Anyway some pictures for a feeling, more on my Flickr Denmark Photostream. Enjoy the fog at home. (Oh, do write what you think of the mushrooms if you find them.)