ATypI Copenhagen dynamic logo

18. feb 2003 We had the napkin with the notes from the galla dinner at ATypI in Leipzig 2000, Henrik Birkvig and I on the flight back to Copenhagen, and we knew that we, together with Kim Pedersen, were about to organize ATypI in Copenhagen the year after.
And already then we sketched the cliches for identity of the conference: Red-white, old-new – the font by Engelhardt that is used for street signs in Gentofte and an animated logo.
The title of the conference: ‘Looking at the future in the rear-view mirror’ came later, but it was almost in the cards from the flight back home.

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ATypI CPH 2001 T-shirt—now obviously vintage.

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Dynamic logo generator

The logo were created as a Flash movie, that were visible on the website and conference screens.
The static versions were designed by means of the Flash movie. As it was running, it randomly outputted a sequence of screen captures, from which we chose the ones to use. The actual design job were to pick the right ones from a pile of automatically layouted outputs.

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Patience is a virtue. The logo is moving slowly to begin with.
Programmed by Torben Wilhelmsen.

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Print for the T-shirts

We started the logo and dumped a series of screens, spreaded the dumps out and selected one of them for the t-shirt.

Print for the T-shirts

Print for the T-shirts

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Signs on the wall

Signs on the wall

This is not a logo ➜

2. DEC 2009 // animation /den blå trompet /design /random /musik /logo

The logo is not an element, a graphical form, but the character in the way it is exposed in various contexts. Thus, the logo is not a categorism any more, but a organism, a being.
I was pleased at ‘Total Typographic Saturday’ in the end of october, as Tore Rosbo and Clea Simonsen from the design bureau 1508 presented the identity […]

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TypoMov ➜

13. APR 2001 // animation /typografi

The spoken information on the other hand is dynamic with an absolute demand of presence. If you're not there, you'll miss it, because the spoken word disappears instantly. The meaning of the spoken information may be stored in your memory, but the words are gone.
TypoMov is a brief presentation of the main points of a lecture […]

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Type, design and automated layout, Atypi 2011 ➜

8. OKT 2011 // atypi /automatiseret layout /tidsskrift /mobilt web /random /responsive layout

Saturday morning at the ATypI conference in Reykjavík Torben Wilhelmsen was on stage to talk about integrating type and design through templates into automated page layout for multi platform publishing such as magazines and blogs on computer, ipad and other mobiles.

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Catch me ➜

7. JUN 2014 // cd-cover

‘Grib mig’ is the title in danish, for the time being, of a coming cd, for which Marianne Mortensen and Michael Vesterskov had gathered four musicians for two days live recordings. I had the pleasure of being among the audience – and to design the provisional cover that together with a sign up form should make the audience pre-order […]

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Egg pattern ➜

14. APR 2014 // design

Pattern with eggs for the tablecloth and the napkins for the easter celebration lunch. Enjoy.

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iSticks and iSkins ➜

13. DEC 2010 // ipad /mobilt web /offentligt rum

The danish boulevard newspaper, Ekstra Bladet, has decided to campaign for the freedom of speech – seen as the freedom of nudity. The danish MEP, Morten Messerschmidt is supporting by taking the discussion into the European Parliament.

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Seven clicks towards Mobile First ➜

10. OKT 2011 // ipad /automatiseret layout /design /mobilt web /mobilism /web /responsive layout /web apps

The net is flooded with apps - for smartphones and tablets. But web sites are still better viewed on a computer, right? So the marketing department is happy and web design is business as usual. Maybe because apps and web sites are considered as two different things, rather than two versions of the same.
You may create coherence […]

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Welt aus Schrift, type exhibition in Berlin ➜

12. NOV 2010 // design /typografi /berlin

Posters, books, jugend, bauhaus and de stijl ... via swiss to decon. The Welt Aus Schrift exhibition in Berlin is beauty in the literal sense of the letter. Do take a visit!

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Bridges and letters in Amsterdam ➜

20. AUG 2010 // husnumre /offentligt rum /typografi /design

Round the city of Amsterdam, crossing the grachten - many of the bridges have their names displayed with ‘De Amsterdamse Brugletters’.

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The photography is dead – long live the photographer ➜

10. JUN 1998 // design /illustration

First the good news: The photography has lost its trustworthyness, because the digital technology has made it obvious to anybody that every photopgraphy can be manipulated.
And then the bad news: We are being told that actually the possibility of computer manipulation it self killed the reliability. And thus tend to maintain […]

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Spis Bare [Just Eat] receives Bording Prisen 2009 ➜

15. JUN 2009 // design /tidsskrift /spis bare

The danish magazine Spis Bare is a very inspirering food-professional og well-informed magazine med professional depth and delicious presentation.
Friday June 12 the magazine Spis Bare was awarded Anders Bordings Mediepris 2009. I have in collaboration with the editor, Mette Jensen, developed the magazine during the last […]

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The user rules ➜

1. MAJ 2000 // design /web

Usability and accessibilty on the web becomes synonymous with free choice and professionalizing of the user. Thus, she is more and less self responsible for being able to recieve the information of the websites.
The computer is putting still greater demands to the user, but despite of that it is easier to use today than ever. […]

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Web design, home pages for starters ➜

1. SEP 2001 // design /web

To the puritan any design that make any demands, will be noise. But you may as well take the opposite stand, that the purely textbased information is reserved for the skillede readers.
Torben Wilhelmsen, Thomas Green and Geert Sander Published first time in 1997. The book was one the selected Books of the Year in 1998 in Denmark. […]

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Fontc[art] Generator ➜

20. OKT 2001 // javascript /random /typografi

Everything that can’t be automated is design.
At the ATypI conference in Copenhagen 2001 Erik van Blokland, Letterror, made the statement that design is not to make one or more possible solutions of a certain task. Design is rather choosing the right one among all these possibilities. And since the making of the examples […]

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Typo-offended ➜

15. MAR 2017 // illustration /offentligt rum /typografi

»Do You by any chance remember: In which font did you scream?«

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More web sites for the danish authorities are using webfonts ➜

5. DEC 2013 //

But far the most of them still don’t! Only 22 out of 122 web sites for the danish authorities. And the majority of those are prefering free fonts. On the other hand is the number more than doubled in a year, since November 2012 when the number was 9 out of 115.
The study is a snapshot that I took November 6, 2013 and covers the […]

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3D enlightening Copenhagen ➜

20. JAN 2011 // berlin

After visiting Buchstabenmuseum in the fall 2010, I started to register this applied typography in big scale in Copenhagen. Big letters, neon, and stuff.
As far as I remembered, this was different from how it was back in Copenhagen. Consequently I started to look around here, and of course there were many more than I expected. […]

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Fingerpainted fontdesign ➜

12. MAJ 2011 // typografi /ipad

Take a few hours with iFontMaker on the iPad and tap, tap, draw, drag, pinch through the alphabet. And you may end up with a truetype font that you can write with on any computer, whenever the font is installed.

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Big Letters Light ➜

9. DEC 2010 // typografi /reklame /offentligt rum /berlin

Buchstabenmuseum Berlin. Why are these letters so attractive? I don't get an answer at Buchstabenmuseum, but I most certainly get a wish to look after all these servants of the announcements, sofisticated as well as monumental.

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Typesetting the net - font embedding ➜

23. SEP 2000 // typografi /web

For a very low cost of 5-10 k fontembedding gives the possibility of getting typographic identity for a whole website – allthough with a litte trouble.
The frustration about missing typographic tools for web design might be well aknowledged. How do I make typography in a graphically sense for the web. Cascading stylesheets offers […]

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