karl martens is a cool guy.

Since being back in richmond, I've had the privelege to be interning at Scout Design. Charley and Angeline are some of the most kind and gracious people I have ever known, and they run Scout out of the first floor of their home in the fan. Aside from many other interesting things (which i hope to be posting on here soon) they recently turned me on to the work of Karl Martens. All of the work that I've seen of his so far is so incredibly fascinating. Charley and Angeline own a book of his, and it's such a vibrant, free flowing, and fearless object.

I've also stumble across Werkplaats Typografie, which to my understanding is  masters program and test lab for self initiated coolness. Martens oversees and supervises. In alot of the work, The traditional standards of aesthetics are often subverted. Like some other work that I've been digging lately, Werkplaats Typographie has a fascination with what some may see as being ugly, generic, or undesigned.