Hubba-hubba, today it’s exactly 10 years since we released our first typeface. Our website was pre-1.0, we still had a fax, we played music on CD’s, were super happy with our 4GB mega-sized external hard disk, none of us was balding.

Dolly. Introduced with a party-hardy, she steadily grows to become a stayer in the world of book typography. Instead of giving Dolly her own Twitter-account for her birthday, we promised her some extra weights and styles. Makes her much happier. Still some patience needed before her makeover is finished though…

For hardcore Dolly-lovers: here are some Dolly illustrations from our grubby archives.

Some months ago we offered our mailing list five free rings (worth 200 Euro each). Because we’d just hooked up with Typerings, anybody could win a free ‘alles geben’ ring. The only thing you had to do was telling us what ‘alles geben’ truly means to you. Simple.

 
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Last Friday we were all damn lucky to get sunburned at Typeradio‘s first open air festival. 26° Celsius intensified the pleasure of the 500 visitors and tons of participants. See lots of pictures at the festival website Now-we-are-talking.nl or read a review at the FontFeed. We would just like to thank everyone for the good atmosphere, the good music, nice music, the good words and nice words, surprising creations, the positive energy and especially thank the Type Legends for stirring up and inaugurating this event.

If you’re the lucky owner of the third issue of 8 Faces magazine, you came across a loose flyer. Yep, we Liza made that flyer by hand. 2000 different versions have been distributed, they are all different! You could be damn lucky and win this typographic lottery.

Try your luck: www.underware.nl/jetaime

We don’t expose our Typeradio activities here a lot, but feel it’s time to make an exception now. After years in the making, the Type Legends box is going to be published soon. Type Legends? Yes, we thought it would be a good idea to interview four persons who influenced our lives and the (typo-)graphic design field in general: Wim Crouwel, Ed Benguiat, Adrian Frutiger and Gerrit Noordzij. Living legends if you ask us. We extensively talked to them for this series, but that ain’t enough. We would wrong them by simply publishing these interviews online, we felt this was a perfect moment to honour them with a special publication.

After we interviewed the four legends, every interview was handed over to a different band. Each band – Supercity, The Walt, Legowelt & Jac Palinckx – composed and recorded two songs for this legend, based on the interview. These songs are now published as vinyl records. The record sleeves are designed by four different graphic designers who all have a connection with each legend. Dutchman Erik van Blokland designed the sleeve for Gerrit Noordzij’s music, Swiss Büro Destruct for Adrian Frutiger, Strange Attractors for Ed Benguiat and the Amsterdam based Experimental Jetset created the cover for Wim Crouwel. Last but not least the American curator and writer Ellen Lupton wrote a fictional essay on these four legends. ‘Four Typographers walked into a Bar’ describes a hilarious meeting between the four gentlemen.

This Type Legends box will be presented at 2 September 2011 at the Now we are talking Festival in Den Haag. This super relaxed Typeradio event – composed of workshops, talks, music, films, surfing, camping & love – takes place at an extravaganza location at a Dutch beach pavillion. You can be part of this now-or-never day simply by registering. If you want to be absolutely sure that you are the proud owner of the limited edition Type Legends box, you can personally pick it up that day. First come, first serve.

Book your ticket (with Type Legends box) at now-we-are-talking.nl

Today in our mailbox: letters from Tanja & Etapes magazine.

You might remember Tanja, the girl over whom we almost lost our heads last year because she send us cryptic messages accompanied by 3D typographic objects. As we now know, Tanja creates 3D objects (pillows, chairs, etc) based on letter shapes, and sells them under her label Tüpo. Being a true Bello and Sauna lover, she is a heavy Underware-user. Today we found some Bello-keyrings and Sauna-bookmarkers in our mailbox. Wow. Tanja: we love you more and more!

Also in our mailbox today: issue 192 of Etapes magazine. Parlez-vous Français? Trouver l’amour dans le numéro le plus récent. Bon appétit.

Ever wanted to have your own text engraved on a ring, but not in a clichéd Courier, Futura or Edwardian Script? Then luck is now on your side. As of today our fonts are available for superb engraving on a collection of rings, since we hooked up with the garden-fresh Typerings. Create your own ring online.

Select your ring, enter your own text, and choose from eight divergent fonts to give your words the right spirit. Yes, they’re all your favourite Underware fonts. As we always design our butts off with every curve in our typefaces, we’re delighted that the engraving on these rings looks absolutely astonishing.

Happy to share our happiness: www.typerings.com

When we ran out of out letterheads a while ago, we asked our parents to design our new stationery. They probably expected their designer-sons to design letterheads for them, not the other way around. But all six came up with an original, unique approach. Connoisseurs identify national distinctions, others just notice struggle mixed with experiment. We are just proud to have our own letterheads designed by our own parents.

See them all: http://underware.nl/lettering

Link: Sing the Typeradio mantra

Sing along with the Typeradio choir. Sing Lorem Ipsum & the Typeradio mantra. Sing along!