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Lecture
From July to September I am a writer in residence at the Künstlerhof Schreyahn and I work on my first novel (!!).
On September 16 at 4pm, I will talk about my path from lettering designer to writer and the writing process at the intersection of text and image. I’ll also read excerpts from my novel »Vom Hof« (roughly: »About the farm«).
Typostammtisch Hamburg
The next Typo Meet-Up in Hamburg is scheduled for November 2—organized by yours truly. The event is free and open to all, it starts at 7 pm and takes place at Filmfabrique in Filmfabrique in Hamburg’s Oberhafen neighborhood.
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Interview
The platform »Design by Women« celebrates the work of women and queers in the design industry. In an interview with founder Mary Hemingway, I shared why I specialize in lettering. Spoiler: It has to do with gender.
Online Talk
It’s really no big deal, but last fall I spoke at Adobe MAX. In Los Angeles. If you missed the in-person talk about experimental lettering, you can still watch a 20-minute version for free online.
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I see you rolling your eyes, I’m sure you’ve subscribed to far too many newsletters—sure, I understand, I did too.
But I said to myself that I shouldn’t cowardly avoid life’s difficulties, but bravely face them. That’s why I now write my newsletter regularly.
Writing the newsletter has become much easier for me and it’s really great! At least that’s what people say in the spontaneous response emails I get each time I send out another newsletter.
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2022
Bonus 2022
Review and Preview
December
Painless Christmas
October
Travelogue with Selfies
September
Experiments and Lifespans
June
Pride and Portfolio
April
ABC and FAQ
March
Carry On
February
Why Lettering?
January
Onward + Online class
In the Blog
I have a blog now, 15 years after everyone else—as a super late-adopter. I’ve wanted to start a blog for years, but I was too busy writing books. Now the first texts are online and on my list of topics are ideas for 100 more posts about lettering, books and design.
How to write proposal prose
Writing applications for grants, fellowships, and artist-in-residence programs—so much fun! In this post I reveal my best tips.
How I learn to animate lettering
Maybe I owe it all to Instagram. If the algorithm hadn’t started favoring videos, moving pictures wouldn’t have interested me at all. But then I saw more and more lettering animations – and I wanted to be able to do that, too.
Writing newsletters–is it worth it?
After writing a monthly newsletter for a year, I take stock: What are the pros and cons? What is the response like? And above all: is it worth the effort?
Meanwhile on Instagram …
On this website you see completed projects, on Instagram I show what I’m currently working on. The website is the showroom so to speak, and on Instagram you can look over my shoulder while I work.
Many of the sketches and ideas I post on Instagram don’t appear on my website, because I often just try out new ideas that never turn into bigger projects. In the captions of my Insta posts I talk about my thoughts and in the comments I exchange ideas with colleagues and followers. So if you would like to get an idea of how I think and work,
