February 15th, 2008
As a designer working in an academic environment you are used to sit in presentations and get a badly designed PowerPoint presentation which at best distracts from the speech someone is giving. I know this is happening all the time and why bother? Well, I can tell you why.
February 13th, 2008
I had to conduct a Bachelor final exam recently about brands and how brand names are developed. It was a linguistic thing rather than a design thing, but nevertheless I asked some designer questions as well.
Anyway, the candidate we examined was Philipp Quanz and he just pointed out to me that the final results of the European Logo Design Awards were quite interesting. I have to agree in various ways.
January 28th, 2008
Finally, it’s here… Another Dorky Relaunch. I don’t know how many changes this homepage had in recent years. I guess it’s now version 15 or something like that.
I did some things to make the updates on this site easier, probably something you won’t see. What you will see however is the all new blog, in which I will try to post regularly. A new contact section will follow in the next weeks.
Hope you’ll enjoy. How long has it been since the last relaunch? Weeks, it feels…
November 9th, 2007
Ist schon etwas her, seitdem ich zuletzt einen Eintrag im Blog hinterlassen habe, aber dafür lohnt es sich diesmal umso mehr…
Am 23. November findet in Marburg die Nacht der Geisteswissenschaften statt, die sogenannten GeisterStunden. Ich werden dabei sein… Unser Team von der Uni Marburg hat einen Stand im Hörsaalgebäude. Es gibt so viele Programmpunkte, dass ich gar nicht alles aufzählen kann, aber es lohnt sich allemal, vorbei zu schauen.
Das Programm der GeisterStunden
Der Virtual Linguistics Campus, das Virtual Center for Teacher Training und der LET-Vokabeltrainer.
August 22nd, 2007
Eine Wikipedia Academy wird diesen Freitag und Samstag in Mainz stattfinden unter dem Titel “W wie Wissen – Wikipedia und Geisteswissenschaften im Dialog”.
Hört sich interessant an, leider kann ich nicht hingehen.
June 12th, 2007
May 23rd, 2007
Ok, two things:
For those of you interested and/or living in Marburg, come to the Uni (PhilFak) on June 2 to get an insight what we’re doing here at the Tag der Sprachen.
The other thing is that I have to get rid of some wows right now: WOW!, WOW!!, and WOW!!!
Thank you.
May 15th, 2007
Hey, I always thought it is strange that such a letter doesn’t exist: An ISO workgroup suggested to create a capitalized version of ß because there isn’t one. Well, obviously no one thought of that…
Check out the suggestions for such a letter in the typeFORUM and the report on sinographie.de, if you get to it some time…
April 25th, 2007
Are you a professional working in the field of everything web? Like, say, a web designer, PHP wizard, accessibility guru? Here’s something for you:
And then on to something (not quite) completely different: Tim Haldeen
December 20th, 2006
This is a video I made together with Marc Melzer and Daniel Schmidt for the Virtual Linguistics Campus. As long as WordPress doesn’t really support XHTML 1.0 Strict, you will need to go to YouTube to see more…