27/07/2010
Roletta Sans in TypoLyrics
I contributed one spread to »TypoLyrics: the sound of fonts« by Slanted, using PTL Roletta Sans to interpret Lady Gaga’s song »Telephone«.

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23/07/2010
End of the year show 2010
Here are this year’s images of the type & typography exhibition, displaying student works from my courses from the last academic year at Burg Giebichenstein.

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30/05/2010
Typocube at Expo 2010 in Shanghai
Together with Alexander Branczyk, Erik Spiekermann, Alessio Leonardi and Stephan Müller I was invited to contribute one side to the »typocube« – one out of 25 performance cubes presented by Create Berlin at the Berlin Square in Shanghai.

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10/04/2010
Passion: TypoBerlin 2010
Meet me at TYPO 2010, 20. – 22. May, at Haus der Kulturen der Welt. I will be talking about teaching and my work, focusing on how do inspire passion in students.

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06/04/2010
Kunstbeirat
I’m very honoured to have been appointed as art council member (Mitglied des Kunstbeirates) of the German Ministry of Finance.

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10/02/2010
Roletta chosen for the German Year in Vietnam
The typeface PTL Roletta Sans was chosen by my friends from Weiss-heiten as the corporate typeface for the German year in Vietnam 2010.

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06/10/2009
published in Small Studios
My work and studio space are presented in the volume »Small Studios« by Hesign. Since I’ve moved in the meantime I’m also showing some images of my new studio.

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01/08/2009
End of the year show 2009
Here are this year’s images of the type & typography exhibition, displaying student works from my courses from the last academic year at Burg Giebichenstein.

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11/07/2009
Der Typogarten – The Typographic Garden
Der Typogarten, an illuminated typographic installation, was an interdisciplinary workshop I taught together with Axel Buether at Burg Giebichenstein. Here are some images from the exhibition:

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21/06/2009
typecuts fonts in use
It’s always a pleasure to see my typefaces used so well by other designers: the betaversion of Roletta was used for the new CalArts Bulletin designed by Counterspace and Switch was used by Jérôme Saint-Loubert Bié.

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22/12/2008
typecuts fonts included in Typodarium
I’ve contributed several spreads with my typefaces to Typodarium 2009: a calendar with 365 Fonts by 50 Foundries and Designers.

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01/10/2008
Professor of type & typography
I’ve been appointed professor of type & typography at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art & Design Halle. I’m very much looking forward to continuing teaching at this great school.

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01/09/2008
Schrift in Form
The exhibition Schrift in Form is a showcase of contemporary type design, showing works from 40 type designers from around the world. My contribution is the typeface PTL Skopex.

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21/07/2008
End of the year show
Here are some images of the type & typography exhibition, displaying student works from my courses from the last academic year at Burg Giebichenstein.

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10/07/2008
End of the year show
From July 18 till July 20 Burg Giebichenstein will open its doors to the public. Everybody who will happen to be in the area is invited to visit our type & typography show.

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24/06/2008
Pimp the Type
Here is my contribution to »Pimp the Type«, a project and exhibition organized by the Spanish typographic collective Catalana de Tipos.

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23/06/2008
Competition Kieler Woche 09
I’m invited to take part in the competition for the identity of Kieler Woche 09 together with Henning Wagenbreth, Martin Woodtli, Patrick Thomas and Projekttriangle.

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17/05/2008
TypograVieh lebt 5: Dingbats Black to Light
Meet me on June 7 in Weimar at the symposium TypograVieh lebt 5 together with Hubert Jocham, Johannes Bergerhausen, Friedrich Forssman, Tina Frank, Katharina Hölzl & Lars Slanted Harmsen.

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12/05/2008
typografiska fredag, Royal Library Stockholm
The Stockholm studio A4 invited me to speak at typografiska fredag, series of lectures on type and typography at the Royal Library in Stockholm.

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14/04/2008
Area_2
I’m very happy to announce the publication of Phaidonís Area_2. Thanks to Jan Middendorp I’m one of the 100 designers featured in this big volume.

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23/12/2007
Grafik Magazine 159, 2007
PTL Roletta Serif has been selected by Grafik Magazine as one of their favourite typefaces of 2007.

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12/11/2007
Idea No 325
I’m delighted to be included in Idea Magazine’s special feature on Various aspects of Contemporary Ornaments and Patterns.

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27/08/2007
Contemporary Graphic Design
Taschen has just published its new compendium on contemporary graphic design. I’m very proud to be included in this publication.

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26/08/2007
My favourite game
I was recently invited to take part in the exhibition My favourite game, a parallel event of the 2007 10 Images for Ithaca competition in Greece.

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19/07/2007
Typographica Favorite Fonts of 2006
Typographica has just published its list of favorite fonts of 2006 and I’m very happy that PTL Skopex is one of them. The review is written by Jan Middendorp.

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01/07/2007
Eye magazine, Nr. 64, summer 2007
I’m honoured and delighted to announce Eye Nr. 64, Vol 16, summer 2007, featuring Jan Middendorpís article about my work as well as PTL Roletta.

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30/06/2007
Page 08.07
Some of my work is featured in Antje Dohmannís 2 articles High Potentials and Corporate Types, including the new Viceroy typeface (collaboration with Verena Gerlach).

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25/05/2007
Switch selected for Modem Berlin
Switch has been selected by Weiss-Heiten and Greige as main typeface for Modem, Space for Contemporary Music and Arts, in Berlin.

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03/04/2007
Type Workshop 05 in KHiB yearbook
The Bergen National Academy of the Arts has just published its new yearbook 05/06 presenting the type design workshop I held in 2005 with all the results.

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10/03/2007
Type Jockey selected for Megastructure Reloaded
Type Jockey has been selected as main typeface for the exhibition Megastructure Reloaded. Responsible for the design of all collateral material is Tobias Kohlhaas.

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09/03/2007
Festival d’affiches de Chaumont
More great news: the poster Made in Germany has been selected to be exhibited at the 18th International Poster and Graphic Arts Festival of Chaumont in 2007.

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08/03/2007
Location:Georgien
I have contributed several typographic photographs to the exhibition Location:Georgien which has opened today at the Trinitatiskirche in Cologne.

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28/02/2007
Visuelt Konkurransen
I was invited by Grafill to judge this year’s Visuelt Konkurransen together with Anders Hofgaard, Kjell Ekhorn, Elise Sæle and Eirik Sev Stokkmo. [poster by Skindesign]

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08/02/2007
TDC53
Great news: the poster Made in Germany has been selected by the judges of this year’s TDC competition to receive a Certificate of Typographic Excellence.

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01/02/2007
Grafik Tasarim
The turkish design magazine Grafik Tasarim has just published a feature article along with an interview about my work.

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