November 20, 2014

Letters in Wonderhand

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I've made an extensive article about the making off 'Wonderhand' and it's now online on I love Typography.

"Although I’m always dealing with letters in my work, embarking on a type design project is rather the exception. My main occupation, ‘Lettering’, varies from commission to commission and projects tend to last for short periods of time with widely different outcomes. Type projects normally extend for a longer period of time and, from my perspective, are very enjoyable until the moment I get into the rough path of type production: months spent looking at boxes of black letter shapes, dealing with letter spacing and kerning pairs. It demands considerable motivation that, in my case, only arises from the personal belief that I have a very good idea.". Read more here.

September 26, 2014

Handlettering at Pinterest DE

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Yesterday was Pinterest Germany house warming party in Berlin and they invited me to carry on an adventure. I hand lettered postcards for guests that they could take home as inspiration. I spent a wonderful evening drinking wine and drawing type. Yes, please!

Join thousands of readers in this community and upgrade your lettering skills! If you're as excited as I am, send this link to a friend, so they can subscribe too. 

August 15, 2014

About going after

 

Like every summer I have prepared an special mailing to hand picked Art Directors that I'd like to work with. As every time different, in this occasion I customised Moleskine cahier notebooks with hand made lettering, plus a special packaging for it.

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Interestingly, I posted a pic of these some days ago on instagram and someone asked me " I can't believe you have to try to persuade art directors to work with you! As if they don't come knocking at your door!". On one side it was flattering, it's nice to hear that your work is appreciated. On the other hand I thought "I couldn't do it other way".

I'm happy to be going through a point in my career were work keeps coming in, through which I get to deal with fantastic creatives and professionals. However, I personally think that everything can change, even your joy for doing certain things and working with certain people. For that reason I keep myself moving, planing new stuff, reaching new individuals that I never reached and having dream jobs that I have to go after. I believe that this is a essential part of my creative life and I rather keep it going.

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Today I'm sending this special mailing away hoping I get a call back from this special people I'm trying to reach.  But mostly I wish I'll have some new ones to go after next year and the year after.

August 14, 2014

Featured at #dni25

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So excited to be featured among this selection of 25 leading Argentinian designers at #dni25 by @DGLucasLopez

July 25, 2014

My talk at TypeCon

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TypeCon is happening in Washington next week and I'll be attending the conference as a speaker. I'll be talking about my experience at teaching lettering with my Good Type Project and unveil my methods to drawing letters: 'The Golden Secrets of Lettering'.

I've prepared a series of Wallpapers for Type Nerds with some of the slides of my presentation. You can download them for free for all devices here.

July 10, 2014

Wonderhand = The Hand of God

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I'm celebrating a wonderful World Cup 2014 with a 30% off on all cuts of Wonderhand Family of Scripts. Get yours here!

 

July 9, 2014

My first time: US & TypeCon

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I'm so happy to announce that I'll be speaking at this year's TypeCon among an impressive line up of speakers. My talk will focus on my teaching experience in lettering design with GoodType.co and I'll unveil many secrets on drawing letterforms. I'm very looking forward to be there and hang out with my peers.

Also is my first time visiting Us, so although I'm short in time I'll be visiting New York. I'm happy as a kid! Registration for TypeCon is open, you should come too!

July 1, 2014

A stupid side project

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In the last year I've been working way too much. Although I appreciate immensely that I have the chance to actually make a living from my hobby, I'm also aware of my tendency to turn into one with this little world composed by a pencil,a piece of paper and a computer.

As a excuse to get out of this loop, and look up and connect with other people, I'm carrying on this project www.lettercollections.com where I'll be sending a part of my work in the shape of a postcard to 100 people around the world. I'll be addressing them to friends and family, but also to strangers or people I always wanted to reach out. Also, visitors to the website will also be able to send the postcard to other friends with their own message. As always, I'm very looking forward to see how the people interacts with this.

The first postcard was addressed to @schneidertobias, creative director at Spotify.com who recently published an extensive and great article about the importance of keeping your side projects stupid and letting yourself be stupid as well. This article came across precisely at the moment I was planing this project and really boosted my motivation.

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I'll be spending the next few days sending postcards here and there. So here it goes, my stupid side project.

 

June 19, 2014

Flashback to the eighties with Glamour Mag

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Glamour Germany approached to illustrate a three-spreads article for their next issue. The request was to create a series of lettering pieces inspired in the eighties. I lettered the headline and 5 song titles of classic songs from Boomtown Rats, AC/DC, Die Sterne, The Clash and Tina Turner. Since the commission time frame was rather short, I worked from very rough sketches that I later enhanced into the digital drawing.

Here's some of the music I've been listening to during that week.

June 17, 2014

On the Wall

The exhibition I set up with Giuseppe Salerno is still on and you can visit us until the 6 of July 2014 at Buchstabenmuseum. Our limited edition of prints published by  ¶ PILCROW will also be available for purchase there. Drop by!

Sparrstraße 20,
13353 Berlin, Germany (by appointment only)
+49 (0) 30 33877574 

Sparrstraße 20,
13353 Berlin, Germany (by appointment only)
+49 (0) 30 33877574 

Sparrstraße 20,
13353 Berlin, Germany (by appointment only)
+49 (0) 30 33877574 

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