This interactive installation was originally created for the Karel Martens exhibition in 2015, in honor of him receiving the Gerrit Noordzij Prize 2012, organized by @TypeMedia at KABK.

Programmed by @Bahman, but never properly credited. #GhostCoding

Now it is part of the retrospective at Stedelijk Museum #Amsterdam

Tip! Useful shortcuts:
- command/control arrow key left/right: go to next/previous glyph (according to the glyph search list)
- command/control arrow key up/down: go to next/previous source location

("command" on macOS, "control" on Windows and Linux)

Next lecture, with Lara Captan 🤩💖✨

Type Makes Words and Words Make Type

Live on September 19, 2025
3 to 4:30 PM CEST
Online, in English
20€

This will be recorded. If you can't make it to the live session, you can still get your ticket now and you will receive a link to its recording on YouTube!

Tickets: https://wordsoftype.com/

#ad #lecture #arabic #typography #typedesign

An absolutely beautiful specimen for Polish railway signage, about 100 years ago.

DIN-like, but not quite DIN. I feel that 2 will be instantly recognizable to anyone who travelled through Poland.

Source: https://plany.zonk.pl/albumy/malowanie/

Seen today at the Zuiderzeemuseum. There is a decorative painter’s studio, all kinds of traditional techniques are demonstrated on Saturdays, including lettering. It was marble imitation today, though.
https://www.schildersmuseum.nl/

#lettering #signpainting