Mountain and Cloud

Finished new artworks for Thy Veils fresh album. Mountain and Cloud.

104 Years Ago

My Great Grandfathers Bizz card

CONFEDERATION ROMANIQUE ( The swissanian connection ) in Vienna at the VDW2009

The Flag

The Team


The Party

The writing of my Greatgrandmothers friend's hand

VENICE FLEAMARKET

Who would have thought that finding the fleamarket in lovely Venice could promise such a nice booty.

I found this very nice letterpress wooden types at a very affordable price. Don't have entire families but still came pretty close in completing a nice 72pt Univers-Bold_Condensed title case ... and there are 8 other half/families among which Garamond, Times, Univers ... and some italian futurist font I didn't recognize. Owning a bit over 300 characters for now.

Can't wait to play with them.

...hopefully soon more on that topic ( searching for a press right now ) - Know anybody who owns one?

OLD PHOTOGRAPHS BACKSIDES

It is truly amazing and at the same time unfortunate that such craftsmanship and dedication is nowadays on the verge of extinction... Presenting here a beginning of my recently founded collection of typographic mastery covering 5 countries for now( Austria, Italy, Romania, France & Hungary ).

For the moment I can name only one person who is courageous enough to investigate this niche. A true master of old habits, a pattern lover, a true experimentalist, and a brilliant craftsgirl ... probably you've guessed it by now... it is none other than Marian Bantjes.

How much time would you spend on a typographic treatment? How much passion would you invest in the one thing you are doing right now? What style is defining the age we are living? What will future generations know us by? What do you do?

SHUBAKILLER-LAUNCH&LOG

It's been 3 years since my first(unprofessional - hobbyist) attempt to printing t-shirts. Took me 1 year to ponder/weigh/balance/calculate/think/re-think the possibility of doing it again .... that did not work..... so 2 more years passed.... Till...

...one day I approached Silvia and plainly asked her ... How about Shubakiller? Hmm? ... Should we?... Could we?... Would we? ........ And that was 3 months ago.

After deciding not to play anymore and really get something out... well ... This is what we came up with as the first row of many more to come. 10 T-shirts ( 100 per model - limited editions ). After a simple math - we designed and printed 1000 T-shirts for our preferred audience... The Middleclass.

UBERULER
TEDDY PORN
PHOENIX CAPTIVUS
NIETZSCHEENII ROCKEN ROLL
TE PHOTOREALISTISCHE MIJLKDOG
MANELE DIETRICH
LABA TRISTA
HELLO KLITTY
DACIA TALES
THE ARMSTRONGS

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To give you, the wearer ( & hopefully bearer) a bit more insight on the process we all went through to get this done as we saw it fit. Here are a few tehincal and process details about what/how we did it.

1. The Tees are high quality 215gsm - 100%cotton - combed
2. The designs are silkscreened with water based high quality inks

Here is a taste:





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Well... if that isn't enough.Fine.

As we are friends of the environment, for the shopfloor presentation, we handcrafted ALL 1000 labels out of recycled cardboards and hand-printed them using good old fashioned lasercut stamps.

Here are some making-of photos from the labeling process:







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And finally but not lastly we DID have massive fun while shooting the presentation photos. Here is a taste:





And here are some of the final pictures for U-MAN the webshop where we sell them:







Of course this all wouldn't be possible without the combined effort of:

Silvia
Vita
Burger
Eve
Sasa
The whole U-Man team ( thank you for the enthusiasm and support )
Desero
Tokyo Rose ( you were lovely my dear )

THANK YOU MASSIVELY FOR EVERY DROP OF SWEAT

Not the least I want to thank our dear friends who supported and encouraged us on the way:

Raluca & Darius Bobic
Gabriel Kohn
Stefan Lucut
Mr. H
Dudu
Vasile Adnan

and all you who are not mentioned and didn't give up on us:



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Now - you do not need to be impressed by this post - but - If you like one of the 10 designs and don't know where to get it... This is the online place to order yours ( U-MAN ).

Only buy it if you mean it.

So long and thanks for all the Fish!!!