Hugo Hoppmann Blog

Nice Quote #41

February 2nd, 2012

Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.
Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.

Steve Jobs (→)

This is a random quote from THE NICE QUOTE, a highly curated collection of motivating quotes from a wide range of different people who are inspiring me. It was initially built to serve me personally as a functional tool and accessible base for my quote collection. Maybe you’ll like it too!

Studio Sessions

February 2nd, 2012

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Tomorrow we are throwing the third Studio Sessions at the beloved Studio 672. The party is the little more “clubby” sister of the Cologne Sessions also organized by my homeboys Magnus of Aroma Pitch and Mitch of Mueller und Mitch.

The flyers measure 6cm × 6cm and are printed on pretty thick and stable paper to be put in a shirt pocket like a handkerchief …

More soon!

See you on the dancefloor!

V.U.C.A. Grotesque in sexy use!

January 23rd, 2012

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Big-up to Swyndle & Hawks for fabricating this sexy motherfucker:

(Note: http://youtu.be/CQ27AM3RTv8 — Min. 1:54)

Plus a very warm thank you to ZOUK club down in Singapore for also using V.U.C.A. Grotesque and sending me the beautiful poster and flyers they created with it! This is one of them:

Grab more background info and images of the font here. I also wanted to kindly inform you that I picked up the work on all my typefaces again and hope to be able to officially release them soon …

Have a great week everyone!

News from the day-job: NZZ Folio redesign and brand eins cover

January 19th, 2012

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One of my first jobs when I started working at Meiré und Meiré in October was the redesign of the NZZ Folio which is the monthly supplement magazine of the world’s oldest newspaper (founded in 1780!) which is still published today: the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

(Together with Jochen Ruderer, Georg Brüx and Mark Bernhardt — Thank you, guys!)

Lately the first issue in the new outfit was released:

For the december issue of German economics magazine brand eins I made the cover together with Tim Giesen and Mike … fun!

(This one and more Brandeins covers on Coverjunkie)

What’s coming next:

Since several weeks now we are working on the first issue of a German version of Andy Warhol‘s legendary INTERVIEW magazine. That’s really exciting stuff for me and I’m going to post more about this very soon.

Stay tuned Brothers and Sisters!

The Nice Quote

January 19th, 2012

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Obviously, you need to get the right amount of perspective. The best tool for that, I’ve found, is a famous principle of Stephen Covey’s: begin with the end in mind. And here’s how he tells us to do that: By imagining what we’d like people to say about us at our funeral. Do we want them to say that we were kind-hearted, or charitable, or loving, or successful, or that we accomplished great things, or found a cure for cancer? However we want to be remembered, that’s how we should live our lives, every moment of every day, starting right now.

Leo Babauta (→)

This is a random quote straight from THE NICE QUOTE, a small side project I developed the other night. TNQ is a highly curated collection of motivating quotes from a wide range of different people who are inspiring me. It was initially built to serve me personally as a functional tool and accessible base for my quote collection. Maybe you will like it, too. Let me know!

Oh, and from now on I plan to have a few regular columns — for ex. one random quote from the base per week or so … — to finally have more of a solid consistency here. This blog is so important for me, but I seem to find too little time to maintain it the way I intend to do it. This has to change. This will be changed.

Visual Identity and Website for Namsa Leuba

January 5th, 2012

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One of my side projects in the last weeks was the visual identity and website for my friend, ex-ECAL colleague and super-talented Swiss photographer Namsa Leuba.

The Logo is based on a modification of the Theinhardt typeface created by François Rappo and is optionally combined with a NL monogram.

The frontpage of the website shows a randomized and therefore always unique composition of thumbnails that direct to the subpages of the projects. By refreshing the site, pushing the accordant button, or simply by dragging the images him/herself the user can create his/her own composition, or choose between the default black or white background.

See some previews below — or better — try it out yourself at www.namsaleuba.com

Twenty Twelve

December 31st, 2011

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I write this small text in the last few hours of this year which has been an incredible one. Right now I’m just feeling thankful for all the new experiences I made and for all the great people I met a long the way in this fucking wunderful year of 2011.
Thank you all!

“Think about the things that you want to do and write them down. Then look at these things and identify the things that you really want to do, and write these down. And from those things, identify the things that you really, really want to do, and then go ahead and do it. You know, life is short. We don’t have that much time. And it’s too short to do what we feel that we have to do; it’s barely long enough to do what we want to do.”
– Tal Ben-Shahar

ComeTogetherProjekt Exhibition + Publication

December 14th, 2011

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This is the flyer I created in collaboration with Thea Barkhoff for the upcoming exhibition of the ComeTogether project. We are also happy to participate with a large-scale publication we designed containing an extensive essay about the last years of the festival and movement including lots of great archive photography screenprinted in a limited edition of 100.

(Oh, and check out Summer Flashback I: Come Together Festival I posted last year if you want to know more!)

Here are some little previews and test print details of the publication … final thing soon!

Shout out to my buddies Béla and Hermes, founders of CTP for making everything happen!

Back in summer 2010 in PIQTO

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(The typeface Grace Simple, used for logo and publication, will be available to download soon!)