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Indra Kupferschmid is a German typographer designing, teaching and writing about type. my studio my school

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hi 2009

I completely forgot about Tumblr or how it works and that people used to repost stuff all the time

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Love this one, Arbiter by Aldo Novarese for Berthold, 1989

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The Beach at the National Museum of Washington

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Bad Type | LettError

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From Betty Crocker’s “Dinner for Two” cook book. Illustrations by Charley Harper

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Champagner-Gedicht. Printed by Martin Schröder

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Otto Piene – Berlin 1984 (für die Eröffnung der Ausstellung “Die Zukunft der Metropolen: Paris – London – Berlin”, Ernst-Reuter-Platz, Berlin, 1984) Foto: Otto Piene Archiv / ZERO foundation

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Berlin Pizza Review

Germany isn’t known for its pizza. I knew this much when I landed in Berlin but I’m a stubborn dude so of course the nine-day visit brought me to more pizzerias than the average Berliner visits in a lifetime. After all, I was only in town because of a pizza box art exhibition I was curating for a Berlin-based online food ordering company. Eating pizza was the least I could do to cover all my bases for this being a business trip (seriously, IRS, it was). 

Here’s a breakdown of the ten pizzerias I visited while in Berlin. Most were part of an epic pizza crawl I participated in along with Steph Mantis and my new homeslice/ Berlin pizza blogger Greg. Others were part of a mini-crawl with my buddy Zac, who I met because he was part of a week-long meditation / starvation retreat with my downstairs neighbor in Brooklyn. FOR REAL!

I’ll show you a photo, then I’ll give a recap of that pizzeria…

Gasthaus Figi Urbanstraße 47

This is a very cool place with clean decor and a warm vibe. The staff wasn’t too happy that we ordered just two pizzas and tap water, but we were out of their hair pretty quickly so no real harm done. Topping combinations are uncommon, but nothing revolutionary. One pizza we tried had chunks of pumpkin. The crust was pretty decent but only when measured against the other pizzas I tried in Berlin. Ouch. 

Il Casolare Grimmstr. 30 

Pretty cool place with Italians in the kitchen and punk rock posters on the yellow patina-tinted walls. The pizza was extremely salty with a lackluster crust. There wasn’t much going on with this pizza to make me come back, but our resident Berlin pizza spirit guide Greg said he’d had much better pizza there recently and one look at his blog supports his claim. The one saving grace is that they offer horse meat as a topping!

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It was the late ’90s and I was at an interesting phase of my career. For the first time in my life I possessed relevant qualifications, experience and could also show a successful track record in my chosen career path. I had the job seeker’s trifecta. It was also summer and my current employer...

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Hans Eijkelboom's People of the 21st Century Köstlich!

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I’m digging the current trend of “stressed” sans-serifs with stroke contrast, like the recent Darby Sans. This one here was way ahead of its time, Condor by David Jonathan Ross. (One of) the most versatile and extensive families in this genre, 60 styles, 5 widths (!) in each 6 weights + italics. Detailed story on the design and its features on David’s website: http://djr.com/typefaces/Condor/

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Just the best magazine spreads ever! I’m lucky to have ca. 10–15 issues of Twen, the legendary German magazine from the 1960/70s. Check out Past Print for more images.