September 2nd, 2009
Ob man die beiden als Mädchennamen benutzen darf? Wahrscheinlich nicht… Egal, will ich sowieso nicht machen, die Überschrift habe ich aus einem anderen Grund gewählt: Ikea hat einen neuen Katalog herausgegeben und alles ist in Verdana gesetzt. Früher war’s eine angepasste Version der Futura. Noch mal zum Vergleichen (ich hab einfach die Futura genommen, die ich auf der Platte habe, wahrscheinlich stimmt’s nicht 100%ig):
Verdana vs Futura
June 25th, 2009
I received an e-mail today that I participated in a poll at the beginning of this year. No, not what you think. It wasn’t spam, I really participated. I would like to recommend that you take a look at its outcome. It is called “Nen Rolli hatte ich noch nie” and is a Zwischenprüfungsprojekt by Alex Ketzer (I’ve forgotten from which university). There are some web design issues concerning the web site, but the book looks really great.
June 16th, 2009
My friend Astrid told me about a sweet little shop run by her and a friend in which they sell some of their stuff. If you’re into nice and simple illustrations with a funny twist or warm scarves which look like a fox or rabbit, then this is for you.
Oh, the shop is called “Sonst noch was?“. Check out the blog, too.
June 2nd, 2009
One of my favorite all-around-design-agency has updated: Pfadfinderei. If this isn’t worth a blog post, then what is…?
May 13th, 2009
Ok, so you like to use paint on your wall but your landlord won’t let you? Why not mess up the wall of some BBC studio? Enter Blast Studio…
January 19th, 2009
Aaaah! Finally.
Today sees the launch of the new portal of the Virtual Center for Teacher Training. Actually, it looks like the old one, but ask our programmer and he will tell you how much work he put in there.
Inform yourself about the site and its new features at the VCT.
So now the world has two important things going on on this date 
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September 22nd, 2008
I’ve added a new section to my Portfolio called Typeface. In the last months I have used FontStruct to create some typefaces. Now, I think I might be able to offer some of them. Read the whole post…
August 19th, 2008
It’s time for a new edition of Interesting Links.
Nick La has gathered some very nice Single-Page Portfolio Sites at his Web Designer Wall. Some interesting concepts and a lot of high end use of web dev techniques. I personally love We Bleed Design for its fancy PNG effects and Fröjd for its simplicity.
Then, there is the Reverse Graffiti Project. If you don’t know what reverse graffiti is, go and have a look at the video. Incredible!
For those of you who haven’t heard this already: NASA has their photos online on a new website called NASA Images (you would have guessed) powered by Internet Archive. If you’re not into astronomy, you will still like the trippy images anyway…
And finally, especially for my students, there’s the Opera Web Standards Curriculum, “a complete course to teach you standards-based web development, including HTML, CSS, design principles and background theory, and JavaScript basics.”
Well, isn’t there something here for everyone of you?
August 7th, 2008
Ooooh, am I excited or what? My pixel font Plastik received a Top Pick from the folks at FontStruct. Thank you very much.
The font is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license. So if you want to use it feel free to do so and follow the rules.
You can also have a look at all my other fontstructions.
June 26th, 2008
No no no, not what you think. Business Week (sic!) publishes an article this week called The Ten Commandments of Web Design. They had asked gurus ranging from John Maeda to Jeffrey Zeldman to give their input into this. Do we all now have to print this out in decorative letters on precious paper and pin it to the wall above our 24″ iMacs?