I’m an independent type designer and consultant giving guidance to create distinctive high-quality typography that sets you apart. I’m located in Leipzig (DE) and Cairo (EG) – where I teach Latin and Arabic type design at the German University since 2017.
— Selected Type Design —
Dialogue is a typeface family I crafted during my MA at Reading. More info on the website of the course: Dialogue / Labiba or on Issuu: Specimen. For licenses please get in
— Selected Research —
Variables of Type is a systematic investigation into all formal aspects of type. Even though it is mainly focused on the Latin script I am not excluding others but trying to find a flexible system which could describe any writing system and its scripts in detail — work in progress. more about → (german)
Update, partially online now: Type Design Framework
— Teaching Type Design in Cairo —
Students had to develop a typeface related to a chosen Movie Character, Latin+Arabic (5th+6th semester), with Kholoud Khaled, Cairo, 2017/18
— Some more impressions of my work —
Logotype and type customisation for a Conceptional Fashion Label, 2017
Corporate Identity for the sustainable product label Megalomania, Photos by Patrick Müßiggang, 2015
Experiments for Google Fonts, 2016/17
Various typefaces and experiments, 2012—14
Corporate and a series of event identities for an international gathering in Halle, 2012—13
Event Identity for an exhibition in Amsterdam, 2012 // Leaflet/Poster for an independent snowboard movie, 2011
Webdesign and Code for the Art Collective Klub7 with Markus Lange, 2014 // Moholy-Nagy Installation, 2011
Year Book for the Burg Giebichenstein University with Patrick Müßiggang, 2016/17
Academic Background
I graduated with distinction in typeface design from the University of Reading (UK); got my BA in Graphic Design from the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle; and studied one year at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam.
Last Update: Feb 2019