Letters from LAVA and me

A few weeks back I reported on a workshop ‘Ontwerp je eigen lettertype met ontwerpbureau LAVA’ held at the Museum voor Communicatie in the Hague. I’ve been waiting impatiently since then to see the font ontwerpbureau Lava has made using the letters created during the workshop. The font is ready and can be downloaded [...]

LAVA alphabet 1

Lava@muscom (33), originally uploaded by Museum voor Communicatie.
These are the stencils for the first half of the alphabet. Note my ‘C’ (egg shaped because of Easter)

LAVA alphabet 2

Lava@muscom (42), originally uploaded by Museum voor Communicatie.

Here’s the second part of the new font, The letters have been spaypainted onto the canvas through the stencils. Here you can see the ‘S’ the right way up!

New LAVA Font

Easter was cold this year. On Easter day Bonny and I took a trip to the Hague to visit the Museum voor Communicatie. I’d seen a flyer for the expo: Eye [...]