Here’s a video show­ing how it works. You can get the app from iTunes.

There are lots of videos about me or by me or by us out there, and not all of them are easy to find. Vimeo now offers this great script that just puts these small pre­views together, so I thought I make a start with the first four videos that I found and uploaded myself. I’ll try and find more of them. I can, of course, only upload those videos that I have legal access to. The TV sta­tions usu­ally won’t allow that.

Chris­tiane Scheibe Pluriver­sum made this video fea­tur­ing the type­faces and icons we designed for the relaunch of ZDF’s heute news pro­gramme in 2009. The motion graph­ics werde done by Vel­vet in Munich.

I clicked the but­ton on Art Bol­locks Gen­er­a­tor which came up with this:


My work explores the rela­tion­ship between emerg­ing sex­u­al­i­ties and life as per­fo­mance.
With influ­ences as diverse as Wittgen­stein and Frida Kahlo, new syn­er­gies are crafted from both sim­ple and com­plex mean­ings.
Ever since I was a teenager I have been fas­ci­nated by the ephemeral nature of mean­ing. What starts out as tri­umph soon becomes cor­rupted into a hege­mony of temp­ta­tion, leav­ing only a sense of what could have been and the pos­si­bil­ity of a new real­ity.
As spa­tial impres­sions become frozen through bound­aried and per­sonal prac­tice, the viewer is left with an insight into the pos­si­bil­i­ties of our future.


That wasn’t arty enough, so I pressed the gen­er­ate but­ton again and it gave me this:


My work explores the rela­tion­ship between new class iden­ti­ties and mul­ti­me­dia expe­ri­ences.
With influ­ences as diverse as Niet­zsche and Roy Licht­en­stein, new com­bi­na­tions are cre­ated from both sim­ple and com­plex mean­ings.
Ever since I was a child I have been fas­ci­nated by the ephemeral nature of the mind. What starts out as hope soon becomes cor­rupted into a cacoph­ony of temp­ta­tion, leav­ing only a sense of chaos and the inevitabil­ity of a new syn­the­sis.
As tem­po­ral phe­nom­ena become frozen through bound­aried and diverse prac­tice, the viewer is left with a glimpse of the pos­si­bil­i­ties of our future.


Click again, and this was offered:


My work explores the rela­tion­ship between emerg­ing sex­u­al­i­ties and skate­board ethics.
With influ­ences as diverse as Niet­zsche and Fran­cis Bacon, new ten­sions are crafted from both tra­di­tional and mod­ern lay­ers.
Ever since I was a child I have been fas­ci­nated by the the­o­ret­i­cal lim­its of mean­ing. What starts out as hope soon becomes cor­roded into a cacoph­ony of lust, leav­ing only a sense of chaos and the pos­si­bil­ity of a new real­ity.
As shift­ing forms become clar­i­fied through emer­gent and crit­i­cal prac­tice, the viewer is left with an impres­sion of the edges of our future.

Lasko Dzurovski from Mace­do­nia just sent me this por­trait of myself, all done in char­ac­ters from FF Meta.
I don’t know how Lasko finds the time to do this, but it is pretty amaz­ing. The orig­i­nal is very big and very high-res.

In the light of the recent replace­ment of the type­face we designed for Nokia in 2001/2002 (with added weights and pro­duc­tion design by Mono­type) here is a PDF I made as a first pre­sen­ta­tion of the com­plete fam­ily. The type­face was still under devel­op­ment then, and my doc­u­ment includes notes point­ing out some of the issues.

The com­par­isons offered by Dal­ton­Maag and Nokia fail to men­tion that there are also wide ver­sions of Nokia Sans which would have been per­fectly suit­able for UI pur­poses and offer at least as much char­ac­ter as the new one. Nokia Serif doesn’t get a men­tion at all and was never used. Goes to show the depth of typo­graphic knowl­edge at Nokia.

After 10 years it was high time to look at Nokia’s type­faces as the dom­i­nant visual voice of the brand but who­ever decided on a com­pletely new direc­tion was either not aware of what was avail­able or was per­suaded by Bruno Maag to start over. Bruno may not cre­ate the most mem­o­rable type­faces, but he cer­tainly knows how to sell them. And tech­ni­cally, their fonts are excel­lent. Too bad they didn’t have the con­fi­dence to work with me on an update. Instead they’re throw­ing out ten years’ of brand recog­ni­tion in favour of bland­ness.

When we were putting up the exhi­bi­tion of my work at the Bauhaus-Archive in Berlin, Thomas Maier took this pho­to­graph of me (ca. 1988) hold­ing up a pho­to­graph of me hold­ing up a proof of ITC Cor­re­spon­dence, the face that was later released as ITC Offic­ina.

Their words, not mine.
Gestalten.tv made this inter­view with me at our house in Berlin.

Graphic design can change your life from Eden­spiek­er­mann on Vimeo.

We have been design­ing for Tcho since before the com­pany even had a name. Nice to see the brand and the great prod­uct get­ting the recog­ni­tion it deserves:

This lit­tle clip from Spinal Tap could have been made for 2011. Let’s hope that the year will pro­vide that extra “push over the cliff”.

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