Every couple of months I paint a new alphabet on the window of my store front studio on Hamburg’s Venusberg—as an eye-catcher and a kind of curtain.
handpainted alphabet variations
3,24 x 2 Meter
2018 to 2024
Negativespacephabet
July 2024
The counter form determines the letterform.
Flipphabet
October 2023
At first glance, the»Flipphabet« resembles the previous alphabet, but the principle is more obvious than with the »Halphabet«: The letters are mirrored along a horizontal axis.
Halfphabet
Januar 2023
Huh? Oh right: The letters are split in the middle and the bottom half is moved one letter to the left. The A is an A at the top and a B at the bottom, the B is a B at the top and a C at the bottom, and so on.
Scratchphabet
December 2022
For this alphabet advent calendar, I scratched a letter out of the white surface every day—without a plan. The razor blade stuttered over the paint like over ice.
Wobblephabet
April 2022
What would it look like if one side of the letters was elastic? I first drew this alphabet digitally and without the software (Adobe Illustrator on iPad) I might not have come up with this shape.
Patternphabet
July 2021
When I stack the letters, the repetition of the shapes results in chain-like patterns—the »pattern alphabet«.
Snowballphabet
December 2020
»Constellationphabet«, I thought, inspired by the ›Space Age‹ of the 1950s. But when I painted the letters on the window in the middle of winter, it was clear: it's the »Snowballphabet«.
Horizontalphabet
August 2020
After the extremely narrow shapes of the previous alphabets, I wanted to create something in landscape format. It’s quite simple, you just have to put your head at an angle and then you can see the alphabet.
Dripphabet
May 2020
The »Dripphabet« was more about the process than the result. I painted it with a homemade sponge tool made from an old mattress and lots and lots of diluted paint.
Monoline Condensed
March 2020
Form follows format: I wanted to squeeze all the letters next to each other onto the disk, so they were extremely long and extremely narrow.
Weirdphabet
December 2019
In one of my workshops, a participant told me that her child writes the E with a constantly changing number of crossbars. When does an E stop being an E—with five crossbars? Or with eight?
Frakturphabet
June 2019
The letters of black letter scripts are already close together, but in order to fill the entire window space, I stretched them out extremely. Is this still an alphabet or is it a barcode?
Ligature-Alphabet
October 2018
How many strokes can I leave out? The work of the Danish sign painter Jakob Engberg inspired me to merge the letters into ligatures.
I’ve explained step by step how I paint my store front window in this blog post.
Negativespacephabet
July 2024
The counter form determines the letterform.
Flipphabet
October 2023
At first glance, the»Flipphabet« resembles the previous alphabet, but the principle is more obvious than with the »Halphabet«: The letters are mirrored along a horizontal axis.
Halfphabet
Januar 2023
Huh? Oh right: The letters are split in the middle and the bottom half is moved one letter to the left. The A is an A at the top and a B at the bottom, the B is a B at the top and a C at the bottom, and so on.
Scratchphabet
December 2022
For this alphabet advent calendar, I scratched a letter out of the white surface every day—without a plan. The razor blade stuttered over the paint like over ice.
Wobblephabet
April 2022
What would it look like if one side of the letters was elastic? I first drew this alphabet digitally and without the software (Adobe Illustrator on iPad) I might not have come up with this shape.
Patternphabet
July 2021
When I stack the letters, the repetition of the shapes results in chain-like patterns—the »pattern alphabet«.
Snowballphabet
December 2020
»Constellationphabet«, I thought, inspired by the ›Space Age‹ of the 1950s. But when I painted the letters on the window in the middle of winter, it was clear: it's the »Snowballphabet«.
Horizontalphabet
August 2020
After the extremely narrow shapes of the previous alphabets, I wanted to create something in landscape format. It’s quite simple, you just have to put your head at an angle and then you can see the alphabet.
Dripphabet
May 2020
The »Dripphabet« was more about the process than the result. I painted it with a homemade sponge tool made from an old mattress and lots and lots of diluted paint.
Monoline Condensed
March 2020
Form follows format: I wanted to squeeze all the letters next to each other onto the disk, so they were extremely long and extremely narrow.
Weirdphabet
December 2019
In one of my workshops, a participant told me that her child writes the E with a constantly changing number of crossbars. When does an E stop being an E—with five crossbars? Or with eight?
Frakturphabet
June 2019
The letters of black letter scripts are already close together, but in order to fill the entire window space, I stretched them out extremely. Is this still an alphabet or is it a barcode?
Ligature-Alphabet
October 2018
How many strokes can I leave out? The work of the Danish sign painter Jakob Engberg inspired me to merge the letters into ligatures.
Every couple of months I paint a new alphabet on the window of my store front studio on Hamburg’s Venusberg—as an eye-catcher and a kind of curtain.
handpainted alphabet variations
3,24 x 2 Meter
2018 to 2024
I’ve explained step by step how I paint my store front window in this blog post.
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You’ve already subscribed to far too many newsletters, I know. But my newsletter is really great! At least that’s what it says in the spontaneous replys I get each time I send one out.
So if you want to be the first to know what I’m working on, what events Im organizing and what books I’m recommending,