Everyone who owns (or thinks he owns) a Koga Miyata bike from 1978 will have run into the fact that the specifications sheet for that year isn’t online on the Koga website. All the other years are represented with a brochure showing all the different bikes and their spec sheets except 1978. For that year only the folder with the pictures of the bikes can be found.

Untill I received a comment from Mr. Dekker. He told me he was just starting to take his Gent’s Touring (GT) from 1978 apart and asked me if I was interested in the spec sheet. Of course I was! He mailed me some scans that I put together in 1 PDF-document. It can be downloaded below (and also shows the Road Mixed and the Silver Ace):

1978 Koga Miyata Gent’s Touring Specifications Sheet

I also asked him to mail me scans from the complete booklet so that it can be added to the Koga website, but I haven’t heard from him since. Mr. Dekker in case you read this would you be so kind to mail me those scans? Thanks a lot!

Picture this: you’re a great photographer and you live in Los Angeles.  You have a passion for motorcycles and everything that surrounds them. Mix that all together, set it on fire, put it online and you end up with Scott G. Toepfer‘s website called “It’s Better In The Wind”. I really like the name, but I like the photo’s even more… Seeing all that steel and gasoline galore makes me want to get my motorcycle license as fast as possible too. Untill then I will have to with my three human powered cycles.

Click the picture below to go to www.itsbetterinthewind.com.

One of the things I really like in the field of graphic design is typografy. What is even better, is handmade typografy! I came across this beautiful project via Little Paper Planes (on Facebook) called “‘The’ Project”. Robb Ogle from houndofthe.com already has some impressive font designs in his portfolio, but he used wordmarks from a private stock of predigital lettering scoured from low resolution archives and turn it into clean, straigh bezier curves. He only extracted the word ‘the’, hence the name of the project for use by today’s graphic designers who appreciate the wonky shapes of yesteryear. That’s me!

Make sure you go have a look over at the special website he created for this project www.thetheproject.com!

Damn. Getting a new job is tougher than I anticipated… Just wanted to keep this blog alive so I’ll just show off the result of my procrastination.

Ow, and big news; I added my portfolio to the About-page. You can go there now or you can just download it here directly. It’s just a simple PDF (2,6 MB) with some of my works and a resumé. It is in German, allthough this blog is in English. I tend to write easier in English than in German, but on the other hand, when applying for jobs in the Cologne area I can’t send out a resumé in English, now can I? ;)

Well, that’s it! Today was my last day at TriMM interactive media. After finishing my Bachelor study Art&Communication Design at the ArtEZ here in Enschede in the Netherlands I started working there and in the last three years I learned a lot. About webdesign, about design in general, about people, aboute clients, about myself, about my colleagues, about software… And so on, and so on.

I will not bother you with details and long stories, but expect some reminiscing in the nex few weeks, haha. For all you none German readers, the above song was originally written by Reinhard Mey and performed by the duo Inga & Wolf at the Eurovision Song Contest back in 1972. The first sentance (and title) read: “Good night my friends, it’s time for me to leave.”