In November last year, the ISTD – International Society of Typographic Designers – organized a lecture tour through five cities in the UK and Northern Ireland. I have to be careful with the proper place names here. We tend to simply refer to Great Britain or – even worse – England. That would have been totally wrong, as the journey took us from Belfast via Glasgow and Manchester to Bristol and London. All that in five days, with two lectures each. I was privileged to have two colleagues in each city appear with me. The tour was called “Kern up the Volume”, and I had my own tour manager, chaperon, master of ceremonies and minder in Jonathan Doney, who was just as knackered as I was at the end of it. This was a kind of farewell tour as president of the ISTD. I am no longer PISTD, but PPISTD: Past President.

In Belfast Liam McComish, Course Director at the School of Art and Design, University of Ulster, recorded a little movie during question time and called it iErik. It is short and not destined for Hollywood, but the idea is great, so I put it under download.