We are proud to present some­thing com­pletely dif­fer­ent! Today we release the first sin­gle Hey Girl from the long awaited Cape Arcona Love Band. Lis­ten now!

Update: visit our myspace site too (yes, we have one!)

From Novem­ber 5th to 7th, Ste­fan Claudius will be hold­ing a work­shop at the 12. Tage der Typografie in Düs­sel­dorf, Ger­many. The theme is music pack­ag­ing and hand­made typog­ra­phy. Find out more here.

Oh my, Cape Arcona is fol­low­ing a trend.
We are on face­book!

We made some small updates in our „Font in use“ sec­tion. Have a look!

The King of Cape Arcona, Thomas Schos­tok aka {ths} will hold two lec­tures this month:

Spiel­trieb
Thurs­day, May 20, 2010, 6:00pm
Aula, Fach­hochschule Dortmund/Fachbereich Design, Ger­many
More infor­ma­tion

Art and Typog­ra­phy: On Beauty, Ugli­ness, Not Only in Typog­ra­phy
Sat­ur­day, May 29, 2010
gale­ria Design — BWA Wrocław, ul. Świd­nicka 2–4, Wro­claw, Poland
More infor­ma­tion

Due to actual cir­cum­stances, the lec­ture has been can­celed. Thomas wasn’t able to get another flight to Poland. The lec­ture will be post­poned to a date in mid may. We will inform you when we get a new date. We are very sorry for any inconvenience.

„Art and Typog­ra­phy“:
On Beauty, Ugli­ness, Not Only in Typography

The King of Cape Arcona, Thomas Schos­tok aka {ths} will hold a speech about typog­ra­phy, design and art. To him the clas­si­cal bor­ders that are drawn between com­mer­cial and non-commercial art are blurred. The three dis­ci­plines are strongly influ­enc­ing each other, so that one couldn’t exist with­out the other. What­ever {ths} is work­ing on, he is look­ing for the beauty of imper­fec­tion. Every type­face and every design needs a cer­tain amount of ugli­ness to become inter­est­ing and beau­ti­ful in a deeper and more touch­ing way than super­fi­cial beauty could be.

Thurs­day, April 22, 2010, 7:00pm — 10:00pm
gale­ria Design — BWA Wrocław, ul. Świd­nicka 2–4, Wro­claw, Poland

Some more infor­ma­tion: outofsth.org

Finally it’s here! CA Tex­teron™ made by Ste­fan Claudius is now avail­able at Cape Arcona.

CA Tex­teron™ is a mod­ern text-font fam­ily to cover the most com­mon typo­graph­i­cal needs with a min­i­mum of weights. It is aim­ing for a seri­ous but uncon­ven­tional look, which is achieved by com­bin­ing round and edgy forms in the same font, often in the same glyph, and by using “human­ist” and “mod­ern” form-principles at the same time. It merges clas­si­cal type-design with an exper­i­men­tal spirit. CA Tex­teron com­bines ele­ments of the dynamic renais­sance prin­ci­ple with the sta­tic neo-classic style, which makes it hard to clas­sify. The result is a post-modern hybridization.

CA Tex­teron™ got the Euro­pean Design Award in Bronze – Hail to awards!

You might think, that we at Cape Arcona lost a lit­tle bit our favor for extra­or­di­nary type­faces? Naa, come on. We still have the rock ‘n’ roll, baby. This leads us to the next point, which is CA Sivle™. Uhh, what a font.  It’s the cra­zi­est baby in town, and yeah, it’s FREE. Sivle<>elviS?

A new year, a new type­face. This time we have some­thing very spe­cial for you. Our Pres­i­dent of Cape Arcona, Mr. Ste­fan Claudius made this won­der­ful text type­face: CA Nor­mal™.

CA Nor­mal™ merges influ­ences from Euro­pean grotesques and Amer­i­can Goth­ics, breed­ing an exper­i­men­tal mon­grel. The under­ly­ing con­cept stays in the back­ground, giv­ing the design a great self-evidence. Although it is doubt­ful if there can be such thing as neu­tral­ity, CA Nor­mal™ comes pretty close to what peo­ple mean when speak­ing of a neu­tral font. Nev­er­the­less it’s not face­less, anony­mous or con­found able. It’s just that the charm comes from sub­tle details rather than obvi­ous design fea­tures. CA Nor­mal™ comes in 15 fonts with 5 weights and 3 styles and fea­tur­ing small caps, lig­a­tures, old­style and lin­ing fig­ures.
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Ste­fan Claudius will reveal super secret back­ground infor­ma­tion on the the mak­ing of his new type­face CA Nor­mal. Come over to Gasteig Black Box, Rosen­heimer Straße 5 in Munich at 19.30h on tues­day 26th of jan­u­ary 2010 to get a brief but deep insight on type­design and why the font looks the way it does. After­wards there will be a lec­ture of inc.fish. Find out more at the tgm web­site.