James-Simon-Galerie – David Chipperfield Architects
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P98a – A Visit to Erik Spiekermann’s Berlin Studio
Visit to Erik Spiekermann Studio P98a, on November 19th 2018 p98a.berlin – typographic workshop Potsdamer Straße 98a 10785 Berlin In my quest to find practitioners of typography and letterpress today, I am visiting Erik Spiekermann’s Berlin-based artist studio, p98a Presses include an Original Heidelberger Tiegel, Korrex Frankfurt Kraft …
Vogue – Berlin Cityscapes Series – 10/10/2018
Berlin Cityscapes Series featured on Vogue Italia website
Researching the City of Berlin – Typography – Actual Size Magazine
As part of my typographical field research, I wandered the city of Berlin to seek out any surviving commercial signs, particularly on the facades of buildings, that bear witness to earlier times. New Manchester-based print magazine Actual Size (https://www.actualsizemagazine.com) contacted me on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/heike_schneider_matzigkeit/) after …
Letterpress Lead Printing for my prototype
For my book cover prototype print, I choose a small lead font called 8pt Petit Post Versalien https://www.voltapress.com/typecatalog/ After choosing the font, I proceed to set up the 8 point size letters which takes a lot of concentration and care Then, I start to …
Bookbinding Workshop Reflection
During the bookbinding workshop I experimented with three different types of stitching and created a signature based book (chap book), a Japanese book block, and a coptic book. Here is my final and favourite result, a coptic stitch book with black pages, white …
Boros Collection – Reichsbahnbunker Friedrichstrasse
There are two very different aspects to a visit to the Boros Collection, however, at the end of the visit it almost feels that they are converging into a new whole. One element is the obvious history of the location and venue, the other is …