January 3rd, 2010 / 5:10 am
Snippets

This image at VVORK has stuck. And this interview with designer maestro/badass John Gall. And this new site for Christopher Brand, another designer in bookland. And this incredible German word.

20 Comments

  1. Gian

      Grief Bacon. Gorgeous.

  2. Gian

      Grief Bacon. Gorgeous.

  3. Matthias Rascher

      OK, you were asking for this. So here comes the German AND the teacher in me. A deadly combiantion, as you well know.
      Translating the German word Speck as “bacon”, though not incorrect in itself, may give Anglo-American speakers a wrong idea here. In German, “Speck” is not only used for what some people have with eggs in the morning, but also – perhaps even more often – for the flab around your waist, albeit without any negative connotations at all, unlike the English word. So, when we use the word “Kummerspeck”, it is really quite an endearing term that evokes no associations with food whatsoever and does not have a negative ring to it at all.

  4. Matthias Rascher

      OK, you were asking for this. So here comes the German AND the teacher in me. A deadly combiantion, as you well know.
      Translating the German word Speck as “bacon”, though not incorrect in itself, may give Anglo-American speakers a wrong idea here. In German, “Speck” is not only used for what some people have with eggs in the morning, but also – perhaps even more often – for the flab around your waist, albeit without any negative connotations at all, unlike the English word. So, when we use the word “Kummerspeck”, it is really quite an endearing term that evokes no associations with food whatsoever and does not have a negative ring to it at all.

  5. Matthias Rascher

      Addendum: Even more often than Kummerspeck we use the word “Babyspeck” to describe the cute flabbiness of babies. And although we Germans have had a rather chequered past, we do not think of babies as bacon.

  6. Matthias Rascher

      Addendum: Even more often than Kummerspeck we use the word “Babyspeck” to describe the cute flabbiness of babies. And although we Germans have had a rather chequered past, we do not think of babies as bacon.

  7. Amy McDaniel

      Kummerspeck makes good adaptive sense, given recent research that a high-fat diet relieves anxiety and depression

  8. Amy McDaniel

      Kummerspeck makes good adaptive sense, given recent research that a high-fat diet relieves anxiety and depression

  9. Gian

      That’s funny. The first thing that comes to mind when I think of babies is bacon. Well, the second thing.

  10. Gian

      That’s funny. The first thing that comes to mind when I think of babies is bacon. Well, the second thing.

  11. Ken Baumann

      Thanks for the info, Matthias. I was hoping you’d report. :)

  12. Ken Baumann

      I love you so much.

  13. Ken Baumann

      Thanks for the info, Matthias. I was hoping you’d report. :)

  14. Ken Baumann

      I love you so much.

  15. Ken Baumann

      Easily my favorite comment/response of the new year.

  16. Ken Baumann

      Easily my favorite comment/response of the new year.

  17. Amy McDaniel

      <3

  18. Amy McDaniel

      <3

  19. Matthias Rascher

      LooooooooooooL.

  20. Matthias Rascher

      LooooooooooooL.