Sign Week Vienna is a festival celebrating Vienna’s rich heritage of urban type. It features different lettering walks, sign painting workshops, films, exhibitions and even an award for Vienna’s most beautiful shop front.

The website was designed by Tom Koch, who also organises the event together with Achim Gauger. The font in use is Typewalk 1915 by German type designer Sven Fuchs. Released in 2015 by Typocalypse type foundry this “vintage grotesk” is an homage to European sign painting and lettering traditions of the early 20th century.

Key visual of the 66th edition of Typostammtisch Berlin.

Established in 2006, Typo­stammtisch Berlin is a monthly meeting of type designers, typographers, graphic designers and all kinds of letter loving people. Throughout the year this strictly independent orginisation hosts different events from casual get-togethers and type crits to presentations, exhibitions and outings.

One of the recurring formats is a Pecha Kucha night, which happened for the fifth time in May 2017. In this very strict and compact format 12 individuals took on the challenge to talk about something they are passionate about, topics ranged from Arabic and Argentinian type culture, tools, experiments, found vernacular letters, to looks into the past and future. A detailed write-up of the evening (in German) can be found here.

After custom woodtype-inspired letters in 2016, the evening turned out to be a perfect — pardon the pun — fit for David Jonathan Ross’ Fit. It was used for the announcement and recap visuals, as well as during the evening. Together with Nikola Djurek’s Diurnal Display Bold, it helped facilitate the event, combining blocky, static shapes with eccentric, humanist forms.

Overview of all the title pages.

A rather unconventional use of Roger Excoffon’s Mistral on some heavy construction site machinery, spotted in The Hague, Netherlands.

SuperGrip is a product of Hultdins System AB, a Swedish manufacturer of grapples, chain saw systems and rotators for heavy equipment, established in 1928. Their North American division, Hultdins Inc., is based in Brantford, Ontario, Canada.