Scandinavian creativity at its finest.


Stockholm - Sweden 2007 “Peep”

February 4th, 2008

Says “Don´t peep here”.

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Norrköping - Sweden 2007 “Stencils”

February 4th, 2008

This is a perfect example of of not paying attention to the details. Read my post The Broken Windows Theory for background.

In the industrial town of Norrköping, Sweden, there are a lot of old brickwalled industrial buildings and factories. Parts of it actually looks like Shoredich (but with the swedish governmental building standard sprinkeld on top of it). A lot of new projects is going on and one that has opened up is “Knäppingsborg”.

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It’s nice, cute and really friendly, massive amounts of time and effort has been put into the architecture and buildings to restore them in a modern but still in touch with the old days style. Small interior shops, bakerys, delis and farmer markets has opened.

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But what has failes miserably is the signage and the execution of the typography. Instead of cutting the signs in metal or wood or anything they have stenciled the signs with spraypaint. What’s that all about? And they have failed to do that as well; sprayed outside the stencils, dizzy edges and mismatching fillings. Pity, cos I really like the place.

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Collecting letters - Big Red

February 1st, 2008

Man is this like christmas? I came over these extremly nice letters yesterday!

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Height is about 4.2 feet and width is about 3 feet. I got; G J U T E R I.

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Welcome to Nofont.

Nofont is founded and run by Andreas Carlsson.
Concept, content, code and art direction by Andreas Carlsson.

Recognise the footprints ... and turn them into trails
We need to get away from what has been to find new sources of inspiration and ideas. We need to interact within ourselves to be able to develop thoughts and ideas that are truly unique.

Nofont is not about technology, it's about getting away from the «what» and «how». Nofont is about the «why». The «why» as in ideas and experiments. Experiments with language and communication. With typography and letterforms.
Nofont is kindly hosted by Bluehost.com.

Thank you Jaan Orvet, Hannes Tydén, Sami Sinärve.