hi everyone,
as some of you might know, doug was nominated by aiga detroit to receive a 2008 aiga fellow award. in addition to several of us giving brief presentations i am asking that you or your studio consider recording a 15-60 second tribute speaking to doug’s contributions in education as well as being an international ambassador of graphic design. this tribute can be light-hearted or serious.
thanks and hope to hear from you.
regards, chad

Hey Chad, take this.

Hello. My name is Bello.
Illustration made for Underware by Rejane dal Bello.

Homework for a studio visit

My graduate class from Syracuse University in the States visited Underware in May 2008. Bas Jacobs suggested we complete a task before we arrived which was to ‘typeset your favorite word in the proper way on paper.’ My favorite word is ‘coagulate’ which means becoming clotted or congealed and is a term most commonly applied to drying blood.

It seemed obvious to typeset the word in blood. I decided to use Auto 2 Italic as a tribute to Underware, and because it had the smooth, unassuming character best represented by slow bleeding and drying. Maintaining the letterforms with an X-acto knife was unsuccessful so a blank tattoo was the answer. The word was set backwards, tattooed on my own leg without ink, then transfered to paper to read ‘coagulate’ in my blood.

The tattoo artist was not a typographer and had never heard of kerning, and the end result was nearly impossible to read despite all the attempts to produce more blood (I insisted he go over the letters again and again and pull my skin to get a good print – ouch!!). But, it was an interesting experience and I’ll always have a faint scar on my left thigh to remind me of my trip to Underware and how far I’ll go to typeset a word in the proper way on paper.

Julie Zack – ISDP Advertising Design Class of 2008, Syracuse University

Shoes for our friends of the Jubilator.

From: “Peter Bünnagel”
Date: 22 November 2007 10:06:51 GMT+01:00
To: Underware
Subject: dolly in use

hi guys

just found by accident these magazines done by factor design:
http://www.factordesign.com/fd/_machine/index.php?command=DOWNLOAD_HEFTE
please make sure to check out magazine # 10, page 5, the chart at the bottom…
:-)

best, peter

The words ‘Gardenia’ and ‘Kolfin’ are optically interwoven and tattooed in Fakir.

From: info@cversteeg.nl
Subject: Bello
Date: 30 October 2007 14:27:30 GMT+01:00
To: info@underware.nl

Beste Underware,

Na de aanschaf van jullie font Bello hebben wij het veelvuldig toegepast in verschillende vormen van drukwerk en webdesign. Een van de meest prominente toepassingen tot nu toe is het adopteren van de Bello als ‘huisstijlfont’ van ons schilderscollectief Lastplak http://www.lastplak.nl/

Hierbij één van de meest recente uitingen; het schilderen van een woningblok aan de Grotemarkt in Rotterdam.

Met vriendelijke groet,

Chris Versteeg

C. Versteeg
grafische vormgeving