“We had the idea to make a Bodoni interpretation with potato stamps, so we bought 8kg of potatoes, some knives and [started carving]. When we finally had the full alphabet we stamped it on paper, made a font out of this and called it Bodedo.”
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“We had the idea to make a Bodoni interpretation with potato stamps, so we bought 8kg of potatoes, some knives and [started carving]. When we finally had the full alphabet we stamped it on paper, made a font out of this and called it Bodedo.”
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This is brilliant.
Bold, regular, italic . . . something something . . . baked, fried, mashed I got nothing.
Boiled, garlic (mashed), thin (julienned)? Is this anything?
Bold, regular, italic. Steak fries, classic school cafeteria fries, shoestring (curly?).
I wish there was a video of the behind the scenes carving process! As someone who has attempted to make potato stamps before, I'm impressed with the legibility they've achieved.
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