Wander/Wonder

Thoughts on resonance, reach, type, and tone.

[nolifelikethislife]

#RoadsLikeThese by hofweber http://ift.tt/1DAA8hx

[inrng]

[the-devil-beside-you]

[sheholdsyoucaptivated]

"I AM AFRAID OF THE ONES IN POWER WHO KILL PEOPLE AND DO NOT ADMIT GRIEF" | Jenny Holzer, "Projections"

[cycleangelo]

DEUX NORTH HUNTER 6: JOHAN BJORKLAND "It’s funny how a week of time experienced under intense circumstances outside of situations you regularly experience usually blur together into one big mess. Already a few days after you remember what has happened, but it’s like the memories and experiences from that bubble of time has melted together. Plus, you only remember the good things."

Read more about Johan’s Hunt on Deux North.

[patchhofweber]

This camera was handed off to me outside of Grythyttan, with 700km left. I have no words.

[patchhofweber]

gwil: Also I don’t know whether this is confirmation bias effect or something but

gwil: why does everyone involved in typography have a name like Maurice Meilleur or Jürgen Siebert

rob: There might be something there

gwil: Jürgen Freeman

gwil: Kristof Hypofothesis

gwil: Dietrich Manfolder

gwil: I could play this game all day

rob: Actually: Patch Hofweber. Dieter Hofrichter.

rob: Real type designer.

gwil: Hahaha

rob: Göran Söderström.

gwil: After a certain threshold of Germanic features and/or accents a child is predisposed to becoming a type designer

gwil: Sorry,  Flüggen Hoffelhaßer

rob: Jonathan Hoefler. Tobias Frere-Jones.

rob: Claude Garamont.

gwil: There’s a scientific paper in this my chum

rob: Pretty rad fucking names

gwil: *Nature*, here we come

rob: Giambattista Bodoni

gwil: Robertus Theodorus Marius Jesus Butros Butros Gali Mientjes

rob: Henric Pieterszoon Lettersnijder

gwil: lol

rob: You are spitballing. I am just going through history.

gwil: And my personal favourite, Typography Jones.

gwil: Yeah you actually know a history of fonts, I however have the creative spark

gwil: Hikikomori Bouken

gwil: Maximum Pancetta

gwil: Mascarpone Smith

gwil: Dame Blanche

gwil: yeah tapping a rich vein of hunger now

[patchhofweber]

Sundays are fun. I get to test out the legs of the new arrivals. Photo: Henrik Palmberg

[bonedeth]

have you ever toss/kicked your bike in frustration like the pros -hahaha

No. But if I did I sure as shit wouldn’t turn the whole thing into some kind of sick domestic violence joke. 

[patchhofweber]

Chabmo knows what’s up.

[lettersfromsweden]

New times ahead

Some might not know this, but the last few years I’ve almost had two jobs. I was FamiljenPangea’s lead type designer, where I was not only responsible for designing custom typefaces but also brought in the majority of such clients to the company. Simultaneously, I was running Letters from Sweden as a side project where my main focus was retail fonts.

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[patchhofweber]

LFS is taking custom type assignments soon. Look out.

[edwardmorganblog-deactivated201]

Mont Ventoux

[patchhofweber]

TDF is far from my favorite race and I’m on the verge of being sick of cycling art. But dang, Ed is doing some tasteful stuff. And the type ain’t bad either.

Click for the large view, it holds treasures.

[lettersfromsweden]

Peter Bruhn, 1969–2014

(English version below)

Min första kontakt med Peter Bruhn var då jag i början av min karriär mailade och frågade om han ville ge ut ett av mina typsnitt. Han svarade snabbt på mailet och tackade nej och förklarade vänligt varför.

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[protectingeverybit-deactivated2]

A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing.

lauren berlant, cruel optimism (via anaturalhistoryofcolours)

[theartofgooglebooks]

Neon moiré.

Throughout Ranch Life and the Hunting-trail by Theodore Roosevelt (1888). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized May 15, 2007.

[protectingeverybit-deactivated2]

OUR EXPERIENCE OF THE WORLD IS STILL TOO NARROW

SOLO TRAIN RIDE TO / heaven is a place on earth

france is just / ridiculous.

spiders in the egg bowl

            not like a parasite, like             the flu. a virus

only a week until / what i believe to be the solstice / kids go on vacation / to cannes?

“i thought maybe lebanon needed me more than france did”

rapture / rupture change in temperature / summit the second-highest hill in finland, ecstatic triumph of climbing in drifts up past knees pot borne in hands, leg fallen in, stuck up to thigh

it’s normal to get/ cold feet

once i divorced my need to make a living from my desire for fulfillment

 “i don’t know if i’m going to go back”

[patchhofweber]

My dear friend Maya is in northern Finland and is living the life.

[patchhofweber]

Projection on water, describing the creation of the universe.

[kupferschrift]

Super nice cover design: The Theory of Heat Radiation, 1959 on Book Worship

[patchhofweber]

Of course I had to make a gif.