Typophile

Just curious...

hubertwah

Is this Cornel Windlin? I have seen his great work but I've never seen what he looked like.

Stumbled upon this image in the Lineto™ website under Desgners > Cornel WIndlin.

Could this be him?

http://www.lineto.com/The+Designers/Cornel+Windlin/

"That's him officer"

WOW I emailed regarding this prior and he actually replied! Cool...

Anyway this is what he said...

Dear Hubert,

Thank you for your kind note.

This image is a random image taken from a collaborative project with artists from both Switzerland and Egypt, realised in Cairo in 2005.
It is a visual essay about the reality of the egyptian capital, a megacity of the third world, which resulted in a small but substantial photographic book with more than 400 pages, called "Do you cake?". The cryptic title refers to the equally cryptic question of a hotel maid asked at breakfast one morning in a Cairo hotel, when she was about to serve the usual tea and cake.

It is a little-known project that I am quite fond of. I attach a jpg of the front cover.
The book is available on request through Pro Helvetia in Cairo, in case you would like to obtain a copy:

Pro Helvetia Cairo
Swiss Arts Council
Hebba Sherif
Director
c/o Embassy of Switzerland
10, Abdel Khaleq Tharwat Street,
EG-Cairo, Egypt
Tel. +202 257 74 100,
Fax +202 257 92 267
E-mail: cairo@prohelvetia.org.eg

Hope this answers your question!
Best regards,

Cornel Windlin

It not him...lol...

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