• Speech Bubbles

    The font Speech Bubbles offers a convenient way to integrate text and images. While the font can be used to design comics, it also gives the typographer a tool to make text speak – to give words conversational dynamics and to emphasize the sound of the message visually. The font includes a total of seventy outlines…

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  • Zebramatic – A Lettering Safari

    Zebramatic is a font for editorial design to create headlines and titles in eye-catching stripes. Constructed to offer flexible and a variety of graphical possibilities, the Zebramatic type is easy to use. The font is offered in three styles: POW, SLAM, and WHAM. These styles work both as ready-made fonts and as patterns to create unique, individualized…

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  • Ciseaux Matisse

    Ciseaux Matisse was inspired by the exhibition Drawing With Scissors, which I visited at the Kunsthalle Schirn in my hometown of Frankfurt am Main in 2003, and the book Jazz, published in 1947 by Henri Matisse. Admittedly, before that time, I wasn’t a fan of Matisse’s work, neither his late nor early work. That definitely…

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  • They don’t care that you’re a vegetarian. Delicate white plate with handwritten blue calligraphy and triple gold trim on bavarian porcelain.

    They don’t care that you’re a vegetarian. Delicate white plate with handwritten blue calligraphy and triple gold trim on bavarian porcelain.

    The plate is plain white, with two gold bands and a gold rim. Simple and delicate. I’m a typographer, and the plate is part of ongoing research about how writing and images are used on tableware. It started when I continuously had to look at the IKEA logo on the cheap glasses in my studio…

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  • Truth and Politics – Wahrheit und Politik – Plate with a Quote from Hannah Arendt – SOLD

    Truth and Politics – Wahrheit und Politik – Plate with a Quote from Hannah Arendt – SOLD

    Wahrheit und Politik refers to the title of an essay published in 1964 by Hannah Arendt (October 14, 1906 – December 4, 1975). The text was translated from German to English and then published in 1967 in “The New Yorker – Truth and Politics.” I’m a typographer, and the plate is part of ongoing research…

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  • Typographic Keyboard Wall Calendar

    Typographic Keyboard Wall Calendar

    The Typographic Keyboard Wall Calendar is about the act of notating time in order to organize it. While calendars nowadays are typically used to optimize personal potential by marking events and managing interaction with others, this calendar offers a view on the managing of time itself.

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