LOVE LETTERS (a collaboration of music, stories and design)

I’ve given birth to a new music genre, Font Pop, through a stimulating collaboration with the the great visual Italian splendors Simone Massoni and Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, in a project we call
Love Letters.

The project is inspired by the first year of Massoni’s lovely calendar project Chicks & Types, an ongoing project where Massoni each year selects 12 fonts from the delightful design history (past and contemporary) and creates illustrations to expresses it’s nature in a female form…

In Love Letters Pancini has written intricate letters about each of the 12 women in the illustrations by Massoni, and as a response to these letters I am making 12 songs, one from each of the women.
When all 12 letters and songs are ready, they will be presentation together. The letter will be presented in both Italian and English, the song performed in English. You will by then get to know;

Carla (Din – Albert Jan Pool 1995)
Heather (Museo, Jos Buivenga 2009)
Isabelle (Times New Roman, Stanley Morison e Vincente Lardent 1931)
Celestine (Avantgarde, Herb Lubalin 1970)
Kendra (Clarendon, Herman Eidenbenz 1953)
Shirley (Cooper Black, Osvald Bruce Cooper 1921)
Angeline (Garamond, Francesco Griffo e Claude Garamond 1532, R. H. Middleton, J. Pichotta 1992)
Terry (Copperplate, Frederic W. Goudy 1901)
Yves (Rockwell, Frank Hinman Pierpont 1934)
Patricia (Helvetica, Max Miedinger 1957)
Emma (Bickam Script, Richard Lipton 1997)
Simone (Giambattista Bodoni 1798, Robert Hunter Middleton 1995)

Here are the tunes so far:

Mastered by Jon Rinneby / sound of wool

The Official Chicks & Types Calendars are available for purchase on stoSHACK shop
The project is supported by Konstnärsnämnden for a work session in Italy. We are grateful.