OLDSKOOL 1998/2000

This typeface is called SILVERTAPE. It's loosely based on 1950's windowlettering. It's also the first working typeface I ever designed. I can remember that the pilot of this was done with CORELDRAW on a 468 Windows (3.11!!)-machine. The face was used to make up the IXOPUSADA logo.

IXOPUSADA was a small culty-arty-collective of several students. I founded IXOPUSADA together with Floor in 1998 and we used the name to sign our work up untill 2004. Floor still uses the name, so I can't tell you what IXOPUSADA stands for....it's still a secret!

I promise I'll tell you more about it in the future!

Update on the 7TON-project II

I'm finally making some real progress. I've decided to make the type 'bolder' (which means I have to redo the logo and all the letters I already did), delete the outlines and reduce the amount of straight lines. This way the type looks like it's made from sliced concrete thus making it really heavy.....keep you updated!

Gerard Unger's Biography Font

In december 2006 I was asked by the Gerrit Rietveld Academy to design a typeface as a gift to Gerard Unger since he was turning 65 and resigning from giving college. The typeface can be described as a 'biography-font'. Instead of characters, little pieces of information about Gerard Unger appear.

This typeface was then sent by email to all the invitees for the party. Later in the evening I asked Gerard if he liked the typeface. He did but he was very worried where I got all the images from. I told him that I captured them from his own website...he was quite shocked about it!

The party was quite a success. A harcore punk band supplied us with the music. Will Holder outdid himself with a 'mousetrap-calligraphy-contraption' and one of his students made a big styrofoam "a" for him.

I wish Gerard a long and productive life and I hope to steal as many fonts from him as I can since I'm one of his biggest fans.