Goethe on a plate:
Life loves, loving enlivens.


Leben liebt
lieben belebt


Glück auf!
Müssen und wollen
denken und tun
streben und warten

Life loves
loving enlivens


Good luck!
Obliged and willing
thinking and performing
strive and waiting



Harald Geisler’s handwritten black ink calligraphy on white Rosenthal porcelain.
Poem by Goethe.
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They don’t care that you’re a vegetarian. Delicate white plate with handwritten blue calligraphy and triple gold trim on bavarian porcelain.

The plate is plain white, with two gold bands and a gold rim. Simple and delicate.

I’m a typographer and the plate is part of an ongoing research I’m doing about how writing and images are used on tableware. It started when i continuously had to look at the ikea logo at the the cheap glasses in my studio after finishing a drink. Then i realized that there is on almost everything a logo, typography, images that subtle but constant deliver information.

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Truth and Politics – Wahrheit und Politik – Plate with a Quote from Hannah Arendt

“Wahrheit und Politik” refers to the title of an essay that was published 1964 by Hannah Arendt (October 14, 1906 – December 4, 1975). The text was translated from german to english and then published in 1967 “Truth and Politics.”

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