I have had a lifelong dislike of circuses and clowns – especially the latter. I think they’re all evil and creepy! There are a lot of clowns around these days, so it wasn’t hard to find a name for this…
Chapuza is Spanish for ‘shoddy piece of work’. I don’t consider my work to be shoddy, but I needed a funny name for this fun font and Chapuza it was! Chapuza is a cartoon-like font, ideally suited for children’s books,…
It is Orange time! The shops are flooded with sweet oranges and other citrus fruits, but for some reason, Seville (or Bitter) oranges are very difficult to obtain where I live. I really like marmalade, but you can only make…
I have a little monkey in my house. His name is Boris, he is (almost) 9 years old and he is, well, a trouble making monkey… ;-0 He loves animals and knows just about everything there is to know about…
My kids love Macaroni – the small elbow shaped variety. When I make it, I used ground beef, vegetables and a tomato based sauce, I mix it all up and serve it with grated cheese. It’s one of the only…
I am not sure about you, but I sometimes think that reason and sanity are obsolete concepts these days, but maybe I am making too much of it and things will turn out to be ok. Fingers crossed! Goodbye Reality…
Luckily, I am not one for making rash decisions. I usually line up all the consequences and mull it over for a while, before committing to something. That doesn’t mean I don’t regret some decisions I made, but those I…
I don’t often use taxis, as I live in a very small village and have a bicycle and a car. When I guide tours abroad, however, I sometimes use taxis and it always surprises me that they seem to have…
I am in Japan right now, guiding a tour group. At night I usually eat a bowl of steaming noodles; soba, udon, ramen – whatever is available! I just love noodles! When I was working on this font, I was…
I read something about Chaos Theory and that it may not be that ‘random’ at all; the order it follows is just really hard to predict. I quite enjoy reading about these things: black holes, Chaos Theory, possible new dimensions…