Welt aus Schrift, type exhibition in Berlin
2010-11-12 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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If a trip to Berlin is a Christmas wish, that is to be executed immediately, or before the mid-January at the latest, then Kulturforum is fully worth a visit.
The exhibition is a sumptuous journey through a world of typographic design in the past century. You won't miss anything, except maybe from your own design :) but you will easily live with that in this overwhelming flood, this tsunami of letters.
The exhibition is a sumptuous journey through a world of typographic design in the past century. You won't miss anything, except maybe from your own design :) but you will easily live with that in this overwhelming flood, this tsunami of letters.
Axa Abadie (cigarette paper). Lithography. Mihály Biró, 1923-24
Depero Futurisma. Book print, 1927
"4 routes to the continent": Lithography. Jean Carlo, 1930
The steps that connect the two stories of the exhibition are loaded with "hand typo". From the bottom: FF Justlefthand, FF Duper, Bello, Kuenstler Script, and FF Mister K
70-80's
... and the desert is served at the same spot.
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 […]
Egg pattern ➜
14. APR 2014 //
design
Pattern with eggs for the tablecloth and the napkins for the easter celebration lunch. Enjoy.
iSticks and iSkins ➜
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.
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 […]
Bridges and letters in Amsterdam ➜
Round the city of Amsterdam, crossing the grachten - many of the bridges have their names displayed with ‘De Amsterdamse Brugletters’.![Spis Bare [Just Eat] receives Bording Prisen 2009](https://data.wil.dk/_images/_base/2009/200/spisbare_covers.jpg)
Spis Bare [Just Eat] receives Bording Prisen 2009 ➜
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 […]
This is not a 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 […]
Web design, home pages for starters ➜
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. […]
ATypI Copenhagen logo ➜
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 […]
Typo-offended ➜
»Do You by any chance remember: In which font did you scream?«
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. […]
Fingerpainted fontdesign ➜
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.
Big Letters Light ➜
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.![Fontc[art] Generator](https://data.wil.dk/_images/_base/2009/200/theskrift_lowcrop.jpg)
Fontc[art] Generator ➜
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 […]
