Storm in our inbox today. Storm The Indestructible. Storm The Disbeliever. Storm is the one-and-only Dolly impersonator. Remember Storm from winter 2008? Storm is still going strong. Storm bro, Dolly says woef.

For those who want to learn to design type:

• You can study the type-basics on typeworkshop.com. You can read this pdf and try to gain knowledge.
• You can learn from tons of online resources these days, lucky bastards.
• You can read dozens of good books on type.
• But the most precious treat is time for practicing. Quit the internet, shut down your computer, switch off your phone, put your books back to the shelf. Silence and concentration. Get paper and some tools (pencils, pens, whatever), and start sketching, drawing, writing. It’s the best way to learn and discover your own direction. Do it.

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We love local culture. Sinterklaas means sweet stuff. Found in our archives (around 1999?): apparently we bought 25 chocolate letters to do what? Spoiling our stomachs with 6 kg of chocolate for a nice piece of typography. Pff, what were we thinking?

Hand drawn envelope in our inbox today. Emails should be send with the same dedication.

When the Type Directors Club of New York asked 65 designers for a contribution for their upcoming book ‘Celebrate 65’ – celebrating 65 years of TDC –, we were happy to have a nice opportunity to apply our cutting hobby. We just love to cut letters out of paper. Scissors are one of our favourite writing tools.

For the number 35 you only need one single cut in a rectangle.

Now, try that with all integers up to 100.

As simple as possible.

Enjoy.

Wanna impress your friends at the next party with this proto shirt? Helsinki is World Design Capital 2012. Sami made them a shirt.

We gonna give away some shirts. 100% free. 100% XXXXXL. If you wanna have this shirt, let us know why by mail (before 31 Dec). Best answers win.

Hello theeere! :)

I’ve just received my brand new 8 faces magazine, and im very pleasant to announce that i got the best possible combination for the “Je t’aime” in Liza.

I believe I need to send you guys my flyer, right?

Will it be delivery anywhere? Even in Brazil? :O

I couldn’t tell you guys how excited i’m. :D

Juliana

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The 3rd issue of 8Faces included a typographic lottery. Two-bloody-thousand different Je t’aime cards have been spread, only one is perfect. Win, win win. Since then the Twitters was on the go. But despite all twitpics, instagrams, flickrs, yfrogs and picless tweets, the winner hasn’t reported himself yet.

There seem to have been some distribution problems with the magazine, maybe the golden ticket is firmly lost at the office of a Brazilian postman? Caramba. Does that man actually know the golden ticket yields a bottle of champagne?

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Being European, we will never understand Halloween, that stupid party. Although it remains an – inescapable – American event, we wouldn’t consider a book printed with blood a true Halloween-like publication.

Probably dressed up dogs are much more suitable for Halloween, right? But our favourite typographic Halloween creation is made by André Mora, who spend some hours with his pumpkin to cut the Yes/No oscillator out.

Unfortunately you can’t even eat this, so we’ll skip Halloween and wait for typographic Sinterklaas creations instead. Yummie.

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The latest issue of Publish magazine does not only contain a main article about Underware, we also made a new oscillator for their cover. After creating an oscillator in the past which can be read as Yes and/or No, we created another oscillator for this special typographic issue with the same words in Dutch, Ja and/or Nee. Kun jij dit lezen?

Next step is of course French: Oui/Non. Spanish: Sí/No. Or  worse, Finnish: Kyllä/Ei. Now that’s a challenge!