July 4, 2005
The World’s Most Difficult Tongue Twister?

Posted by Andrew Hearst

There are some cool design-geek T-shirts over at Typotheque, and I’m so going to order this one. Strč prst skrz krk is a famously vowel-less Czech tongue twister that translates, more or less, as “Stick your finger down your throat”:

Strc prst skrz krk

Also available on the site: the designer Johanna Balušíková’s seven-shirt Colour of the Day collection:

Colour of the Day shirts

According to Typotheque, the shirt collection was the result of “an investigation into colour associations and their relationships to specific days of the week”:

A survey was conducted where the following question was posed to 75 creative field workers from 20 different countries: what colour do you associate with each day of the week? The result is a series of t-shirts, one for each day of the week, the colour of each having been selected by majority vote. The shirts could either be worn according to the calendar days, or more intuitively, according to the actual mood of the wearer.

I don’t associate specific colors with specific days. But I’d love to wear each of these shirts on the appropriate day for a solid week, just to freak people out. It would be like labeling one’s underwear, only much more public.





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