First Impressions

Ok, I'm behind schedule a bit. I didn't expext it taking two days to build the tower from all its several parts. I applied 48 typographic elements to 36 styrofoam blocks and cut off 48 fixation bars. ... read

Two Weeks Left And A Tower To Be Built

Even if I don't think someone seriously missed me during the last weeks without any new blog posts, I want to give a short insight into my current and last project I'm doing to – hopefully – get my bachelor degree this summer.

The topic I've chosen – more or less unrestricted – last autumn for my thesis project was on social decline and exclusion. But while I was working on my culture-theoretical thesis paper earlier this year I realized that these phenomenons today are just symptoms of a continuing development of flexibilization of labor conditions while social servies are cut back simultaneously. Sounds like a sociologic topic. ... read

Designers As Font Distributors?

Currently a wave swashes through the Twitter stream: Linotype updated its EULA and now permits embedding their fonts into non-commercial websites. This move as well as the upcoming start of the font-embedding service Typekit stimulated the discussion on the CSS3 feature once more. And all designers all around the globe are already envisioning the world wide web being a place of manifold and beautiful typography in the near future. ... read

Typo Berlin 2009: The Panel

Back from five wonderful days in my beloved Berlin, after an inspiring TYPO Berlin 2009 and several panic attacks during the days last week because of the much too short time left to finish my thesis project, I finally spared time to start evaluate my various TYPO BERLIN impressions and notes. Some of them will be reflected in the one or other blog post in the near future.

I want to start with on of the – a least for me as a young, passionate and uber-idealistic designer – most interesting parts of the conference. Titled New Horizons or Resignation Fontblog's Jürgen Siebert – as announced here some weeks ago – got together representatives of the branch of communications design in Germany like Erik Spiekermann with members of the most important German design-related professional associations. Also the public authorities were represented through pleasent and appreciably motivated Tanja Mühlhans, the referee for media and film industry at Berlin's senatorial administration. ... read

LägereBräu Packaging Design Awarded

As my thesis project was driving me mad again today, a nice eMail dropped in to save my day: My colleagues Jacob Kadrmas, Thomas Lehner and me have been awarded with the iF Communication Design Award 2009 for the packaging design we did for the Swiss brewery LägereBräu. That's the positive kick in the ass I needed to keep on moving till the thesis project is done! read

Text2Image

Today I received an eMail by Ted Davis, one of our MFA students at the academy. As a part of his final thesis he has been working on a tool named Text2Image.

text2image is an online tool that does exactly what the name describes, but in a different way than one might expect. Rather than creating a typographic based image of the live text submitted, this tool renders an abstract image that is the translation of the given input.

The results of the process the particular text inputs go through are consistent but vary with any change of the entered textual data. ... read