The new website of Page magazine gives designers the possibility to show their portfolios to the community. Every month one portfolio is chosen to be presented. In March Typejockeys wins that honour. Shown in printed issue 04/10 and of course on www.page-online.de.

We proudly present the custom lettered logotype for Zeughaus.

»Wir möchten uns bei Michi für den äußerst kreativen, konstruktiven, flexiblen und spannenden Prozess bedanken. Wir freuen uns auf weitere Gelegenheiten für Kooperationen.« Ditto!

Design studio Zeughaus is awaiting their custom lettered logotype with anticipation. So they decided to chuck out their old logo and put in a placeholder (above). Zeughaus also made the design for the 100 beste Plakate competition, which awards the best posters of the year from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. For the job they used a pretty kickass typeface. We think these guys are pretty cool, and we certainly want them to be satisfied, so we keep you updated!

The February issue of the read-worthy Rising Stars, the MyFonts newsletter for popular new fonts has chosen Ingeborg for text face of the month. Included is a showing of Ingeborgs’ weights and styles, plus Ingeborg Regular is used for the usual quote on the bottom.

Carla Meurer used Ingeborg for the new book of German Rock heroes Die Toten Hosen. Thank you Andi and thank you Carla for our personal exemplary of this limited publication! It reminds me of my second home, many awesome concerts and of you! Schönen Gruß, auf Wiedersehn!

A few weekends ago, the Romanian magazine designer Ramond Bobar wrote me an E-Mail asking me, if I’d have time to meet him, since he is over in Vienna for a few days. Of course Marlies and I did meet him and his girlfriend Carmen to have a really nice evening chatting about Romanian earth quakes and how much people care about type in Vienna and Bukarest. He also gave me his newest private founded magazine Decat o Revista, which uses Ingeborg throughout. Nice to see it set in Romanian. I think – and most important he – thinks it works out just fine! And to me I though, that would I sell sausages instead of fonts, probably none of my clients would come back to me with a overwhelming result he created with them. And if, I probably wouldn’t wanna see it ... Anyway: Thank you Raymond!

Finally something, my mom can also appreciate: A newspaper article!  Photo: Anna Fahrmaier

Although the typeface Premiéra was intended to be used for books and in small sizes, we don’t see a single problem in using it on a really nice bottle of olive oil. That’s exactly what Ramón Soler from
RSC Studio was doing for Selección Melgarejo. And it looks just great!

Beeing a really nice guy and obviously also a satisfied costumer, he sent us over a couple of bottles from Spain. I had the chance to try one, and I can tell you: It is simply incomparable with the stuff we get at the super market over here!

Ramón, thank you very much!

Dornbirn designer Kurt Dornig made this beautiful book named Auszeit which uses Premiéra Book and Italic. Note: The type works great in the very small captions (below), but the italic also speaks for itself in about 16 pt (above).

Due to some difficulties with the delivery of our second mens shirt color, we were able to order some additional XL shirts for this color. Since we were living in our small people world, we never thought of it before. Here we go, though!

There’s an article about contemporary lettering in the new PAGE. Four design agencies were interviewed. One of them ... You guessed it, right?

FontShop chose Ingeborg for their list of top typefaces 2009. “The Great Entertainer” Ingeborg is – so they say – “a serious text face, but its headline weights are also a helluva lot of fun!”

Holy Moly! Font expert (and FSI marketing manager) Ivo Gabrowitsch chose Ingeborg for best typeface of the year in his best fonts of 2009 list!

Original quote: [...] Beim Spielen mit der Schrift entdeckt man immer neue fetzige Details, zum Beispiel den automatischen Richtungswechsel des Fähnchens beim »g« [siehe Bild]. Diese typografischen Ostereier erhöhen den Spaß an und mit der Ingeborg ungemein. Die beiden Blockvarianten setzen einer überdurchschnittlich durchdachten Schriftfamilie schließlich die Krone auf. Die Krone der besten Schrift des Jahres 2009.

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Better cuts! Cooler colors! Cheaper prices! Less shipping!

We’re talking about flexo-print on premium quality T-shirts of ethical production. They are ecological and fair traded as well as environmentally sustainable. They meet Oeko-Text Standard 100, which secures that textiles and dyers are not harmful for health and environment. The T-shirts are audited by Fair Wear Foundation, that guarantees ethical trade and justice for workers. 

If that doesn’t rock? What else?

Yes i did it. I bought an iPhone. I had to accept that my old one had served its time … Sad but true.
I will never forget Michi’s bright smile when I told him about my buying. And yes I must admit: it’s a Mega-Juppii-Wooow-Super-Awesome-Thing! I love it. There are only some moments I am missing my antiquarian mobile with no more functions than writing a message or making a call. Feels a little bit like missing the Schilling. A melancholic stitch, but after a second it’s over. Welcome to modern life!

I have to admit, we never thought on horses when creating our name, rather the kind of jockeys that handle discs and needles pretty well. However, most people seem to find the connection to equitation quite appealing. Therefor the title of this article about our work in Graphische Revue says – translated from German – “The horses are saddled”.

 

The new issue of Design Journal – the biannual journal of the Society for News Design – features our Ingeborg big time! I was awaiting a small mention. So I was even more surprised that they set the whole issue in Ingeborg instead. Thumbs up for SND.

You can now also find our typefaces at FontShop. For the introduction the guys did some neat feature on the home page, in their blog as well as in their wonderful newsletter.

The other side of thinking. That’s a credo of the design label Airture which matches perfectly with the attitude and the work of the designers. Inge and Gerd Zehetner – they love the different and the absurd. They twist, turn, tile and combine design in a refreshing way. Rotatable furniture, broken but functioning lamps, flying sofas and moving walls. The headquarter of Airture, so-called edelhofrooms, a 150 years old Viennese town house in 18th district. Behind these walls you’ll find creativity and hospitality. Design and kindness. As you step in you feel at home. Or rather you want it to be your home!

Not only do we really like what they do, we also had the pleasure to do Airture’s corporate design. Characteristic feature: the turnable logotype. Strike!

 

Anna and me recently went to the marktachterl restaurant – which we had the pleasure to make a corporate design for – and the owner showed me this candle. Turns out a patron did this at home and brought it as a gift. Please notice how affectionately he built the marktachterl logotype out of wax. Oh, this just makes me love my job!

Austrian Funk/Rock/Pop/Ska band Moonshaker Sunnymaker trusted us with the album art work for their first studio album Frame By Frame.

See more pictures of the project here.

Already three weeks ago we went to Innsbruck, Tyrol, to give our first lecture outside our office. And the first, in front of an audience consisting of over 50% of people who are not related or friends with us. Weis sraum – an initiative of Kurt Höretzeder and his partners – organizes about eight lectures and workshops every year. One of this year’s was us. It was a great honour for us to be on a stage where usually speakers like Kurt Weidemann, Fred Smeijers, Stefan Sagmeister or Gerard Unger are inivited.

All that, at a really impressive location in Innsbruck; The Adambräu brewery. Plain, imposing architecture and one of the great examples of 1920s Modernism – since 1996 classified as a monument, designed by Lois Welzenbacher. Enormous space, huge windows, great materials!

8 p.m. About 50 people came to listen to us. Heartbeat? Yes. YES! Totally!

To ease up the atmosphere, we started with the Typejockeys-Season 01-Introduction-Video which we had filmed two days before the lecture. (Thanks to cameraman and director Clemens Conditt.)

Then, getting serious, we presented our two typefaces, some lettering work we did and talked about the need for custom type in Austria. An interested audience took our tension and we were happy and glad to call it a successful and unforgettable evening afterwards.

Some spare-time for sightseeing and the obligatory photo in front of the Dachl.

Photos Weis raum: Ines Graus

Walking through the fourth district of our city, we recently discovered, what was seemed to be a sign painting workshop. The owner – an already retired sign painter in the third generation – told us to be the last of his kind in Vienna.

Sadly his effort to keep the shop running did not work out, because recent computer- and production techniques are said to be more efficient. For me it’s clear, that this efficient methods also mean a lack of individuality on our streets and a more and more monotonous appearance of the street. All of you Beisls, jewelers, barbers and bakeries, keep sign painting alive, please!

Dan Rhatigan, a good friend of mine and designer of Pink Mince magazine uses Ingeborg since issue #2. The weight range of Ingeborg allows him to use the type family for headers and copy text. Issue #3 “For the confirmed bachelor of exceptional taste” is coming up soon. 

More information about the magazine at www.pinkmince.com

Looking at our Inbox, it seems we really made our – pretty long – way into the type business. Uhh.. How cool is that?! Thanks to everyone supporting us!

Rub-Ons! I am addicted to Rub-Ons! For me, grown up within a designer-generation where Macs and Adobe products are the main tools, it was something really special and new and cool when I first bought some old Letraset-sheets on the flea market a few years ago. For others it might be old-school crap, totally twothousandandeight, but I love them. Nothing and no one is secure against an Anna-Rub-On-Attack. My backup disk, my camera, all the greeting cards I write and since recentely the Typejockeys office came to my attention. A take-a-seat-request in the bathroom, an alert that our wall peels off, or just nice sayings on hidden places. 

You can use and apply them nearly everywhere you want to, so don’t wait, keep your eyes open for old Rub-On sheets – I know, you could buy it via the Internet, but that’s not as romantic and sexy as finding them between dusty books and musty dolls on a warm and sunny Saturday morning!

And you know what: I have another addiction. Just in case someone wants to have an idea for my birthday … Tape! But that’s worth another article: Anna’s Tape Collection …

This is right around the corner of my apartment. After walking by so many times I finally went in and talked to the owner. He runs a small metal foundry and immediately gave me a brief tour. No need to say, that I was blown away, when he showed me his letter archive and this showroom.

After releasing our first two typefaces we thought it’s time to go on tour. To present our work, to see what’s going on outside Vienna, to get in touch with interesting people – with designers who care, designers who work in a sensitive way with type. We called graphic designers, that we thought could be interested, explained them why we want to meet and come around, checked the hotels (well, hotels … thanks to all the uncles, aunts and grannys for giving asylum), we made appointments and finally had a tour plan. So we bought train tickets, packed the bags and started part one of our Road Show. Heading the wild wild West. Vienna – Lenzing – Bad Ischl – Stainach – Kitzbühel – Innsbruck – Dornbirn – Innsbruck – Vienna.

Six days, 16 new contacts, 25 folder, a few sweaty shirts, around 1400 kilometres on rail, various train stations, many hours of sitting and working with our laptops in ICE, EC or Regio Express. What an experience.

Die wilden Kaiser, Zimmermann+Pupp, Kurt Dornig, Angelika Mathis, Nina Sturn, Saegenvier and motterdesign … all of them gave us a warm welcome, listened to what we had to say, were totally interested in the shown typefaces with all their OpenType features. We told them about our further offers like Lettering and Custom Type and the possibilities in using them. All this resulted in some really good conversations and interesting discussions.

And to be honest, between these hard working days we allowed ourselves some leisure time. Hiking on mountains up 2500 metres. Swimming in almost freezing 17°C Traunsee.  Motivating ourselves.

Once more we realised that Austria is a really beautiful and special country with such nice places we traveled through. It was enriching to meet other designers, to be up-to-date, to get around, to expand our horizons and to be confronted with different views. What a good idea getting the show on the road! Thanks to everyone who was interested in us and our work. 

To be continued ... Styria, beware!

The Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA) chose Altanta, USA for this years typographic conference TypeCon. Like in the last years, an important part of the conference is the TypeGallery, where new typefaces are exhibited. Ingeborg and Premiéra were part of the exhibition.



Photos: Dan Rhatigan

Chilly beer, white wine, summer-salads and hot fonts – We kept promise. And we really enjoyed the event, the positive feedback, all the AHA experiences brought off with the presentation. There’s an interest in typeface, custom type and lettering – you just have to explain and you raise awareness. Nice to see! Thanks to everyone celebrating the Release with us. (Photos: Roman Haider)

Cover story about Typejockeys in DesignAustria’s periodical DA mitteilungen.

Austrian Design Magazine Horizont wrote about us in May 2009. Read the article on horizont.at.

4C magazine wrote an article about Typejockeys in January 09. PLUS: They were so positive about us and our work, so they bought Premiéra to be their main typeface in the magazine!