Tags in Neukölln – full of deep meanings … There was someone who actually doesn’t know how to write Neukölln. It has nothing to do with town Köln (Cologne) in the west of Germany.
HTW berlin
On my visit at the HTW Berlin I noticed some different typographical elements. Part of it was a wall dedicated to the topic „Font Design“ – under the lead of Prof. Jürgen Huber from supertype.
coffee and vaseline
Typography and Coffee as an art installation? Artist Nezaket Ekici used 10 coffee packs, a coffee machine, water, five packs of vaseline and some furniture to do her performance with following result . Her work will be shown until mid of August 2015 at Haus am Waldsee in Berlin.
from a to z
These yummie gingerbread cookies are beautiful! Sadly they lack some letters of the alphabet … I got them from a swedish furniture departement store – ring any bells?
chalk & books
During my lunchbreak I spotted in the streets of Mitte two wonderful lettered chalkboards. They belong to the book store Hundt Hammer Stein, who is located in Alte Schönhauser Straße (2 minutes by walk from U8-station Weinmeisterstraße). Check it out if you’re around in the fancy, central district of Berlin.
Poetry Neukölln // Part 1
When I walk through the southern district of Berlin, there’s much to see. The messages are usually written in capitals with a concluding exclamation mark(!). Warning: could contain inappropriate content …
Kerning would be lovely …
It’s not the most important thing in the world but sometimes it hurts my eyes.
Mamma Lucia
Fresh from the farms in Italy, Lucia Santa struggles to hold her family together in a strange land. In my opinion, the drop of the „a“ represents her current burden.
Letterpress Workshop
At „Small Caps“ – a little Letterpress Studio in Berlin, I joined a workshop. We were printing on a Adana 8×5 and it was so much of fun! Thanks a lot to Sabrina Sundermann.
19th century alphabets
Last summer, I joined my flatmate on a trip to the UdK-library. Photographing was forbidden, but when I discovered this book, I had to shoot some pages.
Hearts … full of Caffeine
Latte art is a method of preparing coffee created by steamed milk into a shot of espresso. Beneath my Freelancing, I work also as a barista in a little café. The shots are from different places in Berlin.
Lettering Workshop
In Winter, I joined a lettering workshop with Martina Flor. Here are some impressions …
Buchstabenmuseum Berlin
Here some shots from the Grand Re-Opening of the Buchstabenmuseum. After moving from Alexanderplatz to their new place (near U-Bahn-Station Jannowitzbrücke), they opened the museum on the 6th of December 2013.