From my monthly col­umn in form mag­a­zine. About con­trollers tak­ing over design studios.

Effec­tive, not efficient

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An inter­view by email; Decem­ber 2003.
A remark about the form of this entry (and many oth­ers):
Most of them have sim­ply copied out of emails. That results in lower case writ­ing (mostly and not very con­sis­tently), wrong apos­tro­phes, wrong hyphens and wrong quote marks. Too bad, but inevitable in inter­na­tional cor­re­spon­dence. Prag­matic, not righteous.

’ ≠ ’ |  — ≠ –  |  —  ≈  –  | ” ≠ „ | ” ≠ ”

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Is Rotis a type­face?
The truth about Rotis. Taken from an online dis­cus­sion on the AtypI web­site, www.atypi.org.

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Wieder eine Frage per email:
Was bedeuten für Sie Proportionen?

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I write a monthly col­umn in form, the Ger­man design mag­a­zine.
This one is about claim­ing other people’s work. Which is not bad style, it is theft.

Imi­ta­tion is not flattery

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Another big ques­tion: What is the ONE thing you think every stu­dent of typog­ra­phy should know?

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For an exhi­bi­tion in Lon­don, I was asked to design a poster fea­tur­ing a speech of my choice, for an audi­ence who mainly (only?) spoke English.

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A stu­dent asked in an email: Can you tell me about any par­tic­u­lar typo­graphic rules or details?

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Ques­tions

I get asked a lot of ques­tions from stu­dents, col­leagues and friends and I write arti­cles, columns and the occa­sional book. And it takes a lot of time going over the same stuff. So this blog is the begin­ning of a col­lec­tion of emails and other writ­ings plus gos­sip, hearsay and things I find inter­est­ing; unedited and in no par­tic­u­lar order. And in both Eng­lish and Ger­man. You have to sort it your­self. There’ll be new stuff every day – I have a very large hard drive.