Lower East

Letter Museum Berlin / Buchstabenmuseum Berlin

Buchstabenmuseum Berlin is a wonderful place. Out of love and passion for typography two graphic designers began to collect old letters from company facades. They created a “retirement home“ for the letters “gone out of business”. It is such a great idea. The letters are kept for the future and you find all kinds of documentation of where the letters came from etc. If you have interest in typography, studying graphic design etc., you should definately go and visit this place. It is a totally private initiative, so by visiting the museum you support the conservation and documentation of all these beautiful letters.
More info at the museum website and on the facebook page

Graphic design is all over

As passionate graphic designers we are always talking about the graphic design that surrounds us in our everyday life. A work related condition. Going shopping for dinner can be a graphic adventure or a disaster. What are good graphics. Do they communicate the product in the best way. Why do we buy the stuff. Is it because beauty and quality goes hand in hand or do we sometimes buy products more expensive just because we like the look of the package. Sometimes we might choose not to buy a good product with a good price because it is too ugly…yeah.

We just love this italian espresso can. The beauty of the colour, the coffee bean and coffee cup in the illustration and the type is very balanced. Now we use this can for all kinds of espresso.

Plain salt is needed everyday. We found these in on our local food market – 1 euro each – just lovely.

Olive oil. Good solid font. Good solid oil.

An old chewing gum stand. We found it in a flea market in Copenhagen. We use it in our kitchen as a shelf for herbs. Sometimes we are searching for colour palettes for our projects. This is a good example. Nice retro palette – orange, red, dark green.

Buchstabenmuseum Berlin

Buchstabenmuseum Berlin is a wonderful place, where two graphic designers have made a home for old letters, which have ‘gone out of business’ – NICE!

Visit the Buchstaben Museum website