SCHFONTS

As a kid growing up in Berlin Steglitz, me and my friends were deeply fascinated by Berlins brutalist architecture. To us Those buildings was like something from Star Wars (the original trilogy). Like weird alien spaceships landed in the 80s and then forgotten and over time finally abandoned like the ICC (International Congress Centre) or the Bierpinsel (Beer brush – bar and restaurant). 

The Mäusebunker (Mouse Bunker – Animal Laboratories research facility) for example was a building of a mighty disturbing aura to us. Standing before it we could literally feel its soulless evil like Darth Vaders breathing in our neck. 
We sneaked in to the futuristic halls of the ICC and on the fire escape of the Bierpinsel and every time we was driving through under the massive block build over the autobahn tunnel called Schlange (the snake) we imagined to fly an attack on the Death Star. 

Like the most ambitious projects of this kind, those architecture became the opposite of prestigious and hated by the bourgeois while loved by connoisseurs. 
We think that this love is strong in our work and shows clearly in our Fonts.

When i looked for character for schfonts.com for some reasons something comes to my mind that my friend Boris put on a flyer 20 years ago. Maybee because we used to talk a lot about design and typography in special as we shared an office space back then. Sadly Boris died of brain cancer in 2017 and I miss his precious opinion on a lot of things.
I am an illustrator myself but I couldn’t help using this one for Schfonts as an homage for Boris. I think he would love it…

F.U.N. @ Weekend, Flyer, 2006, by Boris Brumnjak