Penmanship

Zwerchbräu

My friends from Frankfurt brew their own beer. I designed a selection of beer labels for them, so they can choose what they like.
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Spitzfeder – You’re gonna die

Spitzfeder - You_re gonna dye

Für einen potentiellen Auftrag habe ich eine vorgegebene Form der Englischen Schreibschrift mit der Spitzfeder geübt, dabei ist dieses Blatt entstanden.
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Typo bag – the lost S

Typo bag – the lost S

Typo bag with the lost S.
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Diptychon

Diptychon Titelbild

This display is a diptych with exchangeable inlays in four different scripts: textur, fraktur, italic and current.
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Workshop on Current

Workshop on Kurrent Titelbild

Giving a workshop on writing Current was a great experience for me, as I still have to learn how to teach. But preparing the presentation and sharing my skills was so much fun!
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Writing Italics with a Quill

Lettering Calligraphy Class Titel

This summer I have visited a calligraphy class in the cloister of St. Antoine l’Abbaye, France. It was a full week just about humanist italic scripts, the teachers were Keith and Amanda Adams. It was so much fun and I learned a lot about writing italics, but also about the history and theory of that style.
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Recipe illustration: Zuccini-Pasta

recipe title image

I have not done much hand illustration before, but I always wanted to try this style (inspired by Alexandra Klobouk, who did an amazing job on illustrating a ZEIT Magazine about Lisbon). The recipe was for a friends wedding cookbook.
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joyful mind

joyful mind title

Birthday card for a friend. The text is a quote from the book Start Where You Are from Pema Chödrön.
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Birthday cake decoration

birthday cake title image

This is a birthday cake I made for a friend. I used the font Astloch from Dan Rhatigan, it is slightly modified to be able to cut a stencil.
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Tshirt with illustrated S

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