Link: Sing the Typeradio mantra

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

Book of war, mortification and love at Nijhof & van Lee, Amsterdam

Being the epicenter of graphic design in Amsterdam, Nijhof & Lee is a bookstore you have to see while visiting Amsterdam. Feel and smell the love for books.

Book of war, mortification and love at van Stockum, Den Haag

Bookstore van Stockum is one of those bookshops which is always very eager to nicely present their books, which means our books as well. You might remember them from the extreme sauna book testing. Being close to central station in Den Haag, their window has lots of visibility for passersby. Mr. Linssen is watching you.

Poldercup, the movie. For those who don’t speak Dutch: a goal isn’t really a goal if you didn’t first dragged a women, a girl or a lady into the water. Men say.

We love football. We love subcultures. Sometimes these two meet, for example when Pied La Biche organises three-sided football, invented by the Danish artist Asger Jorn. Not extreme enough? Try swamp soccer, once made up by Esa Romppainen. And again another fascinating variation is blind football.

Recently our love for football and subcultures perfectly came together at the Poldercup. Football on a Dutch meadow with ditches and channels crossing the pitch. Scenery: cows, clouds, windmills, church towers. The pitch remained a battlefield, the water an extra opponent challenge as leaping ditches wasn’t allowed.

Where the crossing of channels should have forced teams to come up with new tactics for playing football, everybody was just struggling with the muddy grass-plot. That became a welcome excuse for not being able to do our Aurelio-tricks. Quote we heard after another failed shot: “my right leg had a perfect shot, all went fine, should have been a goal. The problem was my left leg, that got simultaneously stuck in the mud”.

Doesn’t matter we got kicked out in the semi-final, doesn’t matter Bas got a light concussion, doesn’t matter there were as much cameras as players, it was a beautiful day. Thank you Maider López, we love the horizon as much as you do.

From: Lernplakate | Christian Büning
Date: May 5, 2010 10:08:43 AM GMT+02:00
To: Underware Office
Subject: Re: Yes/no

Dear Underware Guys,

Thank you very much for this great poster and also for shipping it twice.

I modified it a bit to make the »Yes« more legible by adding a little pink area to the o/e (and created a counter). In my eyes, it works better now. My office partners are of the same opinion. Included is a photo… what do you think?

Kind Regards from Münster in Germany,
Christian

Hi Underware, thank you so much for my amazing tattoo design! I absolutely adore it – and the guys at the tattoo place loved it too! The tattoo covers a scar that held bad memories for me. Whenever I looked at the scar, I felt sad and was reminded of bad times. Now, I see words that give me hope and make me smile. It took me a long time to find the right words for my tattoo, but as soon as I read the following passage I knew instantly they were perfect:

And so finally after many more months of work,
all the sages came back to him,
and they had come to a unanimous conclusion that
the wisdom of the world could be put into a four-word sentence.
They told the king that this sentence expresses much.
It is chastening in the hour of pride
and consoling in the depths of afflictions.
The sentence of their wisdom was:
‘This too shall pass’

XXX Sarah Blake
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Why D-I-Y if you can D-I-T?
lecture by Underware on self-publishing
Friday 16 April 2010, 16.20 o’clock
OK Festival Arnhem, the Netherlands

In 1986, Leon Grellutch would become the first Belgian astronaut. Unfortunately, the trip sponsored by Jupiler will never see the day and Leon will land forever. He’s always visiting Belgian universities to give lectures about life on Mars.

WTF? More here.

Hi Underware,

Thanks for the poster.
here is an image of a shark dog for your collection.

Cheers, Guus