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In Conversation
In his podcast Ohne den Hype, Sven Saro usually interviews design giants such as Stefan Sagmeister, Eike König and Paula Scher. At the end of November 2023, I was his guest.
First, I pointed out to Sven that he doesn’t have enough women on the podcast: 31 out of 147 episodes, which is only 21%. It was a great conversation.
At the Museum
In spring 2023, the Hamburg Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe acquired a number of my early works. Some of them are currently being shown in the exhibition »Wiki-Women – working together to fill the gaps«.
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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Newsletter Archive
2023
October
Residency Recap
August
Learning to Write
June
»Do you have any idea about literature?«
March
Busy Weeks
Febuary
Newsletter News
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.
Learning to Write
»So, how did it go?« That’s what everyone’s been asking since I returned to Hamburg after three months at Künstlerhof Schreyahn. A report from my time as a literary writer.
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.
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,
