Our friends in Hamburg, the amazing Human Empire, have launched an online store with music labels Morr Music, City Centre Offices and Karaoke Kalk. The store is humbly named, ‘A Number of Small Things‘.

I found out about Human Empire from a CD they designed for Morr Music, and about a year ago, we interviewed Jan Kruse, the founder and designer/illustrator of HE, and he explained how that name came about:

Our first idea was to build a website/world were only “good and kind” people get entrance. War lords and all the bad things and people of the real world should kept out. A kind of paradise – a human empire. It should be a place which makes people smile.

Read the rest of the interview here.

Also - Jan, along with many other talented, hand-lettering cool cats are featured in a recent book, curiously titled, Hand Job, by Michael Perry, whose work I’m envious of.