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Bike Festival Rathausplatz

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Jetzt ist es endlich wieder soweit: Am Samstag und Sonntag, den 10. und 11. April findet von 9:00 bis 18:00 das jährliche Argus Bike Festival am Rathausplatz in Wien statt. Wer rechtzeitig kommt, kann am Falter-Fahrrad-Flohmarkt gute und günstige Räder finden. Neben Hochrad-Shows und historischen Räder, können die Besucher im Rahmen des Vienna Air King Wettbewerb waghalsigen Sprüngen auf Mountainbikes zusehen. Das Motmobil ist mit Motmot T-Shirts und seinen Radmotiven auch wieder vor Ort. Wir stehen neben der aufblasbarer Almhütte.

Finally its spring again and the yearly Argus Bike Festival at Rathausplatz in Vienna invites you to look at historic bikes, penny-farthing and watch the amazing jumps during the Vienna Air King competition. If you come early you might find good and cheap bikes at the Falter-Bike-Fleemarket. Motmot is there with its Motmobil and new t-shirts with bike motifs. We are located next to the inflatable chalet.

I 8 NY


Hello everybody! See what we are up to in our winter vacation: I 8 NY - a giant wall painting from the comic Cheetahs Never Win by Steve Reeder - is shown in the exhibition WIR WOHNEN at Kunstraum Niederösterreich which opens January 14, 2010 at 7 p.m. at Herrengasse 13, 1010 Vienna. Show me where you live, and I‘ll tell you who you are! With these words curator Ingeborg Strobl is questioning the standard reception of the notion of home. Invited artists are: Regula Dettwiler, Norbert Gmeindl, Stefan Gyurko, Johann Peter Hlustik, Susi Jirkuff, Clemens Kirsch, Trude Lukacsek, Lotte Lyon, Christoph Meier, Prinzgau/Podgorschek, Liddy Scheffknecht, Alexandra Schlag, Tatia Skhirtladze, Suvat and Steve Reeder. For more information go to www.kunstraum.net

I 8 NY - eine Wandmalerei im Überformat aus dem Comic Cheetahs Never Win von Steve Reeder - wird in der Ausstellung WIR WOHNEN im Kunstraum Niederösterreich gezeigt. Die Eröffnung findet am 14. Jänner 2010 um 19 Uhr in der Herrengasse 13, 1010 Wien statt. Zeig mir, wie du wohnst und ich sage dir, wer du bist! Mit diesen Worten führt die Kuratorin Ingeborg Strobl in die Ausstellung ein und hinterfragt gleichzeitig den gängigen Begriff des WOHNENs. Unterschiedliche künstlerische Positionen werden durch die Arbeiten folgender Künstler und Künstlerinnen aufgezeigt: Regula Dettwiler, Norbert Gmeindl, Stefan Gyurko, Johann Peter Hlustik, Susi Jirkuff, Clemens Kirsch, Trude Lukacsek, Lotte Lyon, Christoph Meier, Prinzgau/Podgorschek, Liddy Scheffknecht, Alexandra Schlag, Tatia Skhirtladze, Suvat and Steve Reeder. Weitere Informationen zur Ausstellung finden sich auf www.kunstraum.net

Junger Flowmarkt

A6-Flyer107x150Motmot macht beim jungen Flowmarkt am Karmelitermarkt mit. Am Donnerstag, den 27. August von 14:00 - 18:00 gibt’s dort billige Buntwäsche und Buntmetall. Schaut vorbei, Willfriede ist auch dabei und lädt zur kreativ-friedlichen Buttons-Produktion ein. Anschließend zeigt Volxkino den Psychothriller Das Weiße Rauschen.

Motmot invites you to the Young Flea market at Karmelitermarkt in Vienna’s 2nd district. Stop by on Tuesday, August 27 between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. In the evening there is an open-air movie projection: Das Weiße Rauschen (sorry, just in German, no English subtitles).

Hasnerstraße

HasnerstrasseYou can find Hasnerstraße in the 16th district in Vienna. On my weekly bikeride to the Wiener Wald I am passing by these wonderful old shop signs. Inspired by the book “Stadtalphabeth” I started taking these pictures about a part of Vienna that will soon disappear. Allright, I admit it, I am a big typejunkie. If I get to it I would love to start digitizing these fonts and start creating a typeface. That could almost be a summer plan!

Die Hasnerstraße befindet sich im 16. Bezirk in Wien – Vorstadt pur. Auf meiner wöchentlichen Radtour komme ich daran vorbei und angeregt durch das Buch „Stadtalphabeth“ knipste ich diese Schilder. Ich liebe Typografie und glaube, es wäre einen Versuch wert, die Schriften zu digitalisieren. Ein guter Vorsatz im Herbst wieder den Fontlab Kurs auf der Grafischen in Wien zu besuchen.

Stadt Alphabet Wien (City Alphabet Vienna)

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This is exactly the kind of book that sends my inner-design-geek into a tizzy.
If you’re a design geek, when you travel to a new place, you can’t help but notice the interesting signage. If you walk around Vienna, when you notice the signage, you are treated to something that is uniquely Viennese.
These old Viennese shop signs seem to defy many conventions of typographic style, many of the shop signs feature custom scripts and sans-serif fonts. Very few of these signs make use of an identifiable or recognizable typeface. These designs were all made by master sign makers, but not by typographers or graphic designers. The signs are all amazingly crafted, yet you can still see the mark of the sign-maker’s hand. This is before the advent of Arial, laser-cut signs, and the Cooper Black-ifcation of every sign on the block.
Photographer and Graphic Designer Martin Ulrich Kehrer set out on a exhausting mission; he spent 4 years exploring all of Vienna’s 23 districts, and took over 2000 photos. The book is 144 pages long and features over 200 color photos of street signs from all of Vienna’s 23 distinct districts. Stadt Alphabet Wien, captures the distinctive typography of a bygone era-before it’s completely gone. This book gives you a unique view of a city and it’s particular visual language. It serves two purposes; it’s a book about design and typography, and it’s a book about a city.
Stadt Alphabet Wien (City Alphabet Vienna)
By Martin Ulrich Kehrer with and afterword by Walter Pamminger (In German)
144 pp. paperback, Swiss brochure binding
€18,- in the Motmot Shop

for more information: http://www.stadtalphabet.at/

Vienna on fire!

schnitzel Our pal Jürgen has been stopping by our shop since we opened up. He also runs a kick ass design studio called OPEN. He has been working on a top secret design project that is finally finished.
It’s called OPEN # 121: Vienna on Fire. It is a 98 page newspaper about the city of Vienna. It features some amazing photography, and some interesting and unusual facts about our adopted city. We were lucky enough to score a few copies and they are available at the Motmot shop for a mere € 15,- (Deluxe edition is € 17,-!)

For more information:
http://www.open121.com/