Collaboration with Amsterdam-based collective fanfare, contributing to fanfare’s second edition of Broken Channels (2024), a three-day, interdisciplinary festival and research programme (photos by Guus Kaandorp). The joint effort resulted in Building maintenance, a typographically historical and architectural tour through “Woonwerkpand Tetterode”, once home to the Lettergieterij Amsterdam, a former type foundry housing among others fanfare’s studio, subsequently squatted in the 1980s and since then self-managed by a community of artists. For this project, a forgotten typeface of the aforementioned foundry was revived: Columbia by the American type designer Walter H. McKay (1901–1956), who passed away a few days after its release. No digital version has existed until now. In the tour, alongside the building’s inhabitants and managers, Ruud van den Helm and Rens den Hollander, Tetterode’s former use as a type foundry is connected with its current status as a self-managed space.
Collaboration with Amsterdam-based collective fanfare, contributing to fanfare’s second edition of Broken Channels (2024), a three-day, interdisciplinary festival and research programme (photos by Guus Kaandorp). The joint effort resulted in Building maintenance, a typographically historical and architectural tour through “Woonwerkpand Tetterode”, once home to the Lettergieterij Amsterdam, a former type foundry housing among others fanfare’s studio, subsequently squatted in the 1980s and since then self-managed by a community of artists. For this project, a forgotten typeface of the aforementioned foundry was revived: Columbia by the American type designer Walter H. McKay (1901–1956), who passed away a few days after its release. No digital version has existed until now. In the tour, alongside the building’s inhabitants and managers, Ruud van den Helm and Rens den Hollander, Tetterode’s former use as a type foundry is connected with its current status as a self-managed space.