Liquorstore Font at Boerentoren Antwerpen
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April 22, 2011, 7:46 am
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OMG I can’t believe someone chose my Liquorstore font to spell out a poem all over a skyscraper in Antwerp! This picture is six years old but I just found out about it today. Isn’t that an incredible building? The words are a poem about how this modern building is in love with a cathedral nearby. Wow, so surreal and impressive.
And what’s up with that KBC changed to ABC up on top? So fantastical.
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An ad-hoc translation of what is in fact only the last part of a longer poem:
Accept me
Take me
Behold me
Start with me
So day
So night
You’re bright
Start all over again
Oh, look then
Love me
Surrender
Don’t hold back
By Tom Lanoye
Comment by Erik Bongers June 5, 2011 @ 7:19 amTypography by Gert Dooreman – the one you should be grateful to…or is it vice versa?
Tom Lanoye is a literary author of major importance. His work has been translated into several languages.
The KBC-ABC thing is an insiders’ joke. KBC is a well-known abbreviaton of the name of the company occupying the building (a financial institution). By changing the K to A you get two things: the first three letters of the alphabet, obviously, but also a link to the A of Antwerp (the city where this poem was displayed). The Anwerpians are very proud of their city, and the white A on a red background comes back everywhere as a symbol of the city, its services or social/cultural heritage.
Comment by Kirstin Vanlierde June 5, 2011 @ 1:02 pmTrue, we Antwerpians are very proud, but we’re oh-so modest…as can be attested to by this:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=118839051475875&ref=search&sid=663804691.3670036575..1&v=info
No, that’s not photoshopped – that “A” stood there in ’93 when Antwerp was Cultural World Capital. As you can see, that skyscraper (it really isn’t that high) has phallic importance to us.
Comment by Erik Bongers June 6, 2011 @ 3:14 amSorry, “A” stood there in 2001 – not ’93.
Comment by Erik Bongers June 6, 2011 @ 3:17 amAgree photoshopped
Comment by gazex August 13, 2011 @ 9:13 amTom Lanoye he is the belgium novolist, right.
One of the Flemish novelists if I remember correctly.
Yes some amazing stuff.
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