Today, in honor of Swiss National Day, we feasted. And oh what a feast it was. Linda brought cheese fondu with many dipping options including cute little pickles. Courtney proved to be the avocado champion with some seriously stellar guacamole and possibly the best chips money can buy. As if we would expect anything else from him, Aaron brought some sort of meat cylinders (landjaeger), which were both tasty and difficult to eat. Morgan attempted some traditional August-Weggen rolls, which were actually pretty fetching when topped with tiny Swiss flags. A crowd favorite was clearly Shirlee's spicy, sweet bacon... I [...]

Wie wir alle von unserem Blog über die Haas'sche Schriftgiesserei wissen ist die Schriftart Helvetica in Münchenstein, einem kleinen Ort im schweizer Norden mit einer Bevölkerung von 11.732 Menschen (Das ist weniger als die maximale Kapazität der Spokane Arena). Zusätzlich jedoch zu diesem typographischen Erbe ist Münchenstein ebenso die Heimatstadt vom Tennis Profi Roger Federer. Geboren ist Roger F. in Basel und im Alter von 10 Jahren ist er dann nach Münchenstein gezogen, wo er seine Glanzzeit verbracht hat. Aus diesem Grund war unser Freund Yannick, als er dieses Jahr bei der BNP Paribas Open gearbeitet hat, entschlossen, mit Herrn Federer über die [...]

Here at Helveticahaus, we sell cool shirts featuring some pretty clever designs, but that's just a means to an end. Our main goal is to raise enough money to provide scholarships for local design students. We love great design and want to encourage today's youth to pursue an education in the graphic arts. In order to connect with these up-and-coming designers, we reached out to Spokane Falls Community College and started a connection that would lead to the new Helveticahaus Student Series. We asked SFCC's 1st-year design students to design a T-shirt, a mini-poster, and a coaster for Helveticahaus. They had [...]

We've been working on these coasters for a while now and are super excited to share them with you today! These beauties were printed on 100% cotton paper using 1950s Heidleberg Windmill letterpress. Check out a video of the printing process here.

Helvetica started in Switzerland, but Helveticahaus has gone global. Helvetica has a knack for bringing people together. Here's a glimpse of fellow Helvetica fans worldwide. Seattle, San Diego, New York, Portland, Spokane, Brazil, Idaho, the list goes on and on. Where are you from?

“This HelveticaHaus t-shirt instantly gave my work ethic some badly needed credibility!” John M – Spokane Falls, WA

Here's our Helvetica friend Michael, wearing his perfect Tt on a perfectly sunny day in Seattle.