Detroit—a city of extremes. A third of the city lies derelict, and many buildings have been or are about to be torn down
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Hooptie Script—Two Typefaces inspired by the Motor City
Traditional hand-lettering by Dan Madsen. Capital Sharp S explained to Typographers (screencast)
In my talk together with Nadine Roßa at the ATypI conference 2011 in Reykjavík I explained why Germany and Austria need a capital Eszett character today. For those who couldn’t be there, I made a screencast of my talk, which can be seen and commented here. Keep in mind, that this talk was made for
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Capital Sharp S explained to Typographers (screencast)
Empirical study about the legibility of typefaces used on signs in public space
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
New MSc course Traffic & Transport Information Design
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
Font Dragr – drag and drop webfont testing
Font Dragr is a great tool by Ryan Seddon to test freeware and Open Source fonts as webfonts without the hassle to create and implement webfont packages in your site first. As the name suggests: you can just drag and drop the font from your computer to a website
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Font Dragr – drag and drop webfont testing
The Beauty of Road Signs
Usually, when I do my road trips to take pictures of road sigs for my collection, I am most interested in, how these signs look from the driver’s point of view.
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The Beauty of Road Signs
How to draw a Capital Sharp S
In a previous article I already explained the need for an uppercase counterpart for the German lowercase letter ß. At AtypI 2011 I talked about this topic again. Here you can watch a screencast of my presentation: Unfortunately I didn’t had time to discuss the possible shapes of this character in this talk.
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How to draw a Capital Sharp S
Musings on the Relationship Between Grids and Guides
An article that that takes a look at the relationship between the grid and the use of guides.
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Musings on the Relationship Between Grids and Guides