The chappy on the right is my ex-officemate and ex-yoga-teacher, whose place I was staying at. Beside him his girlfriend, and the other two are flatmates.

Notes:

1. I failed to take any good wedding shots; haven’t yet sorted through the Tübingen walking tour ones but my expectations are not high.

So you might expect that I might know some other typography geeks. And in fact I do: two folk who actually make fonts, as part of their professional activities.

The funny thing is, typography has nothing to do with how I know these guys. George Triantafyllakos is an old friend of Olga’s, we hang out and discuss comics when we’re in Thessaloniki. And Donald Roos has joined forces with some Amsterdam friends of mine for a cookery club — yours truly has volunteered for the demanding task of “Quality Evaluation”, a.k.a. “the eating bit”.

If you read Dutch, check out the Koninklijke Nederlandse Bitter Bal Bond (“Bij het officiele bitterbalwerpen dienen de volgende regels in acht te worden genomen:”…). My favourite piece of George’s work doesn’t have a link, but on his design page open the “Selected posters” tab and click the head wearing sunglasses against a yellow background. Powerful.

You might also like to trot over to my sister’s site, aSpire Arts, and check out her weavings. Don’t bother trying to contact her though, she’s in Mongolia for a few months.