Trucks and motor scooters from this delivery service can be seen all over Kyoto. It has, hands down, the cutest logo I have ever seen in my life. Ever. Who wouldn’t want their stuff delivered by a company that will handle it as carefully as a cat carrying its kittens?
This charming hybrid of an illustration and a map is posted as a sign in Kyoto’s historic Gion district, at the foot of a mountain that draws many tourists with its historic temple. The map calls attention to a small, steep path leading up a hillside away from the street, where handicrafts and food are […]
Sign at train station construction site in Kyoto. More visual research from Kyoto and environs coming soon!
Since June, I’ve been working on graphic design for the 15th anniversary of New Haven’s fantastic City-Wide Open Studios festival. I was telecommuting from Berlin, but now I’m actually in New Haven for the event’s first week. Last night’s opening was packed with great art and artists and afterwards, the nighttime light installations outside, organized […]
Lettering in Boxhagener Kiez, Berlin-Friedrichshain. This used to be a shop for used leather apparel; the sign originally read GEILE JACKEN, which means AWESOME JACKETS. Now it appears to be a record shop named, via subtraction, LECKEN, which means LICKING.
Two colorful examples of fine food related design seen this weekend: charming cursive plastic lettering at a fruit shop in Berlin-Karlshorst, and a regal package of Échiré, the butter with its own Appellation d’Origine Protégée.
Latest issue of Balkon & Garten, with cover lettering by me, on the shelf at do you read me?!, next to another magazine with sloping scribbly handwriting on the cover.
On a photography walk around Oberbaum City in Berlin-Friedrichshain today, I stumbled across several colorful examples of East German design. I admired the window display Intershop 2000, which specializes in DDR memorabilia and has just moved to a new location due to construction of high-end apartments on their former site. I have mixed feelings about the […]
Noticed this mobile home among the many parked on Gürtelstraße in Berlin-Friedrichshain. Like other streets that are wide enough to offer perpendicular parking spots, it seems to be used by many van and camper owners. There is something fascinating to me about these homes on wheels and how their owners/inhabitants decorate them.
