I like this poster a lot, and I’m not even sure why. It’s all over the streets and subway stations of Berlin right now, announcing the fiftieth anniversary edition of the Berliner Festspiele’s Berliner Theatertreffen, a forum for supporting and premiering new works from emerging playwrights. The head designers for the Berliner Festspiele are Studio CRR in […]
I bought this cookie, actually a package of six of these cookies, mostly for the packaging. And because I was only in Spain for a week, no time to hesitate! The blue lettering on the white waxy paper looks like it hasn’t been changed for decades. The cookie itself, powdery with confectioner’s sugar and crumbly […]
Just spent a couple crazy days in Hasselt, a little Belgian town that my friends Pablo and Manon (among others) have decided to put on the map with their own international design festival. My personal highlights included experiencing giant printing by Letterproeftuin (made possible by a linoleum supplier’s stockpiled scraps and a rented steamroller) and finding […]
Today I talked of spring with Yuki, whose little café — down the street from my studio — seems kind of like a studio itself. Whenever I go in there she has invented a new treat to bake, like Möbius-strip cookies, or found a new ingredient to put in her tea sandwiches, like pea shoots. I gave […]
A small company called Photoautomat maintains a bunch of these old-fashioned, black-and-white photo booths with real dip-and-dunk photo chemicals inside. This one just appeared at this location in Berlin.
The Leipzig Book Fair (which just ended – it was March 14-17) overwhelms you with books. I spent most of Saturday there and left with my head spinning. Thus my failure to note the name and author of this one, or even which stand displayed it. I only know it was a limited, hand-bound edition […]
“Nett” (Nice) lettering with double-t ligature. In Berlin-Mitte last winter.
For a late Lunar New Year celebration, I was asked to teach a small crowd to make Chinese dumplings, stuffed with gingery pork and vegetables. More impressions of the evening on The Convivialist, where Jillian has also shared my family’s dumpling recipe for one and all to cook. Let us know how your dumplings turn out! […]
Newest addition to my studio, just installed today. Found at the Boxhagener Platz flea market by Anke, danke!
