A while ago I posted a video about the design of the signage system of the new Berlin Airport. I was instantly flooded with emails, stating that the video was filled with wrong claims about who design which part of this complex design system. So I finally took it down at the same day.
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Signage of the new Berlin Airport
Media Artist Nicholas Hanna built a tricycle that can also paint Chinese characters on the ground as it moves. Water Calligraphy has a long history in China, normally characterized by older Chinese men painting characters on the ground of parks with long brushes and water.
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Tricycle Calligraphy
Sorry, removed because of legal complaints. Check out my older articles on way finding instead. I hope I can come back to this topic of the Berlin airport signage in a future article
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The pictograms of the new Berlin airport (update)
Yesterday morning while preparing my work for this week a tweet by Maria Popova of the Brain Pickings blog led me to this neat trailer . It advertises the book You Are Not So Smart: Why you have too many friends on Facebook, why your memory is mostly fiction and 46 other ways you are deluding yourself. .
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Book Trailer For “You Are Not So Smart” In Animated Typography
At the University of Applied Sciences Berlin an empirical study was conducted by Sven Neumann to test the legibility of nine typefaces, including my own Wayfinding Sans typeface. The use of type in this study was based on the recommendations of the German legibility norm DIN 1450.
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Empirical study about the legibility of typefaces used on signs in public space
I always disliked the fact, that information design was understood and treated as a tiny part of graphic design. So I was happy to hear, that there is now a MSc course specifically for traffic & transport information design. I fact, I was so happy that I had to join the team of expert lecturers
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New MSc course Traffic & Transport Information Design
Using webfonts to insert characters or symbols in a website—Or why is Opera screwing up my font stacks?
In this series of videos for the
My weblog opentype.info has been selected
Traditional hand-lettering by Dan Madsen.