The letters are a documentation for the journey of learning and exploring Naskh Arabic script and are not in any way near perfect.

Darf man das, oder lass ich das? Einfach machen — hoffen das es wirkt.

Design of labels for my home brewery. The labels are all typographic and somehow relate to the beer name. They’re printed on coloured papers on a monochrome laser printer.

The BHV family is a rather unconventional coalition, containing various weights of a monolinear grotesque and a corresponding serif in text and display styles. They all share a common grid-based skeleton resulting in some odd letter shapes with emphasized links. While the serif styles follow a more traditional approach and try to fulfill at least some legibility conventions, the grotesque almost always creates pattern-like lines. Because of the unfixed x-height, texts set in lowercase and uppercase differ drastically in terms of texture.

A Typographical Game Action-Abstraction is an arranging play of abstract elements which have original configurations. The Typographical Game presents a conception about opportunities of matching and setting together abstract shapes forming new entities. It regards and reminds letters as a form of recognisable symbols. The Game has a legend which may assist positioning a particular set up of elements. Also participants may create their own letters which might have another original configuration including assigned elements. Furthermore letters might be gathered in a polish word AKCJA or ABSTRAKCJA as well as in any word using assigned letters: A B C J K R S T.

Alna is a display typeface worked between 2019-2021. I was seized by a visual observation of a disease massively present in the vineyards of Bordeaux, the Flavescence dorée. The leaves bend on themselves before falling, announcing the total death and the non production of grapes.
I wanted to ask myself how this disease could metaphorically apply the drawing of letters. Through three different weights, Alna is characterized by stems placed like plant stakes on a recurring diagonal and the rest of the letters are thought to compose a foliage. A contrast appears between thin zone evoking the impact of the disease and very dense zone evoking the richness of life.

Project Boobs Font is an experiment with letterforms, the context of the visual part and the idea of the physical differentiation between men and women. Also it shows how equal and similar we are.

Intentional text scanning error applied.

Merging design features from different times is always an exciting thing. Like in this case with an experimental reinterpretation of a traditional typeface classification, the Rotunda. The characteristic constructions are translated into the present day of grotesk fonts in a reduced and no-frills formal language. In addition, the font family comes in styles that are unusual for the genre but recently popular: Besides the Regular, there is a variant with angular curves (Squared), with striking Inktraps (Inktrap) and even a soft version (Rounded).

Font created on 2×4 block.

I found myself taking some wire I found on my desk and creating the letter ‘a’ while I was participating in a very long Zoom meeting. I did it unconsciously but as soon as I realized I had formed a letter I kept pushing it to see if I could recreate the whole alphabet with that little piece of wire. It was refreshing to see how routine can be intercepted by creativity so easily, almost involuntarily – we only need to be present enough to catch that glimpse and make something out of it.

Distortion of a font through a random process. The basic idea of my work was to create a typeface in which the designer has no influence on the final shape of the glyphs. The random process is supposed to generate the shapes itself. The tool I chose to visualize and execute the random process was the pantograph. The name Pantotype is composed by the words Panto (representating the pantograph) and Type (representating the result of the random process). I determined the position of the pantograph using four-sided dice. The units of the four axes (A,B,C,D) were also determined by dice rolls. I chose the Ursonate by Kurt Schwitters to reproduce it with my typeface, so I could test it in use.

Announcing Poster for the first edition of the “Elke Twiesselmann Preis” – an award with the intention to support female actors of the degree course in acting at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany. Screenprinted in two signal colors.

Announcing poster for the university-public trial lectures for the professorship of philosophy at the department of design at the Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen.

Named after American writer and philosopher Susan Sontag my typeface represents (as I see it) the essence of “Camp”. Sontag typeface is visual speculation about phenomenon of love of artifice and exaggeration the writer discusses in her well know essay “Notes on “Camp””. The idea of letter forms originates from engraving typefaces principles and combines the simplicity of shape (having no stroke contrast) with excessiveness of fake swashes. “Sontag” has two styles Italic an Regular.

Announcing Poster for a concert in the series „fresh sounds“ of the master´s program New Music at the Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen. Ensemble BRuCH performs pieces of music composed by students. Fragments.

I like to think about my Typeface rorschach regular in more of an illustrative way, that transports not just the idea of transmitting information in the first place but using a font as an image. Rorschach regular is loud and as soon as one uses the font, a pattern appears for the eye which effect reminds of the psychological Rorschach procedure. Similar according to that the single letters mixed together are mirroring or even completing themselves, so one might recognize a whole new picture in it depending on the order of the letters.

Announcing poster for a screenprinting-workshop in collaboration with the artists´ collective „Palefroi“ (Marion Jdanoff and Damien Tran).

I create new alphabet font; illustrator, 3D, stripes.

It’s Chinese word, it means “I”; illustrator, 3D.

Random white stripes on black background create some letters (N, H, A, E…)

Typographic experimentation based on a modular construction. Each letter and each number are built from a single module. Each module has a different filling rate to create a game of contrasts and transparency. This reveals the initial construction of the character, its skeleton. For the filling, I used the dot technique. The sentence is inspired by an anecdote by Jean-Paul Rouve, French actor and director, interviewed on February 7, 2022 in a French television program: Quotidien, hosted by Yann Barthès.
Original drawing
Rotring 0.18mm
Black ink
40x50cm
Velin d’Arches paper 250 g

Every day we need to make decisions – easy and hard ones.
My work explores the relationship between the words “Yes” and “No” and shows that the difference might not be as distinct as it seems.