Works
Bauhaus Type Action
The publication and research project “Bauhaus Type Action: Neue Typografien 2019–2023” tries to capture collectively new typographies 100 years after…
Werkschau Trier
Printed matter for an exhibition at Kunsthalle Trier. The exhibition showcased projects of the different design courses at Hochschule Trier….
City as Canvas
Visual design for an augmented reality exhibition in public places around Stuttgart. The spatial interventions of artist Karima Klasen are…
Weissenhof Grotesk Play
Visual identity for the temporary art space Satellit Stuttgart. The design includes a new font style of our Weissenhof Grotesk family:…
Referenz Grotesk
Referenz Grotesk is a contemporary type family full of references referring to the type design history of Stuttgart State Academy…
Raster Type 2
The approach of German artist Karima Klasen dealing with various grids within an installation or exhibition space is transferred to…
London Letters
Since 2010 this ongoing project has been documenting London’s various types and letterings. (Stefanie Schwarz & Dirk Wachowiak)
Weissenhof Signage
The signage leads the way to the Weissenhof Museum from its external office spaces up the road. It informs visitors…
ABK Stuttgart
ABK Stuttgart is a unique corporate font for Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design which is inspired by the…
Raster Type
The typographic grid-pattern-experiments were created for the chapter pages of the book project Mitternachtskino Volume 2. The patterns invite the…
Weissenhof Grotesk
The type family is inspired by the Weissenhofsiedlung (Weissenhof estate) that was built in 1927 as one of the best…
Cyan(o)type
This project experiments with Cyanotype, a photographic printing process that creates cyan-blue prints, also known as blueprints. Letters were cut…
DESIGN PF Fonts
The display type family DESIGN PF was developed to create a Visual Identity for the School of Design/DESIGN PF at…
Interactive wood letter
The printing/coding experiment investigates the correlation of analogue and digital techniques. Starting point was a series of various wood letter…
Scan Machine
Scanners can be used as a tool to create experimental output. For this, physical actions are required by its user,…
Generated by hand
An analogue frame by frame animation referring to the language of generative design. (Stefanie Schwarz, 2013)
AF Connection
Conventional typesetting requires that each letter is surrounded by whitespace to ensure legibility. The design of AF Connection applies the…
Drawing Robot Font
The experiment “Drawing Robot Font” makes use of a drawing robot, programmed to draw letters. Although the robot is supposed…
AF Module
Initiated at Yale University in 2004, AF Module is inspired by various printing experiments with a self-inking stamp. Besides the common…
Letters in Progress
The aim of this project was to generate an endless variety of letter shapes that picture different stages of progress….
FF Polymorph
As a starting point for this project all Unicode characters were analyzed according to their similarity to Latin characters. The…
Moire Type
The posters investigate the potential of the moire pattern in relation to typography. This investigations resulted in a font called…
Lambrecht
The font Lambrecht is based on a type sample of Joos Lambrecht found in the Sterling Memorial Library at Yale…
Poster in a book
This work is about the transformation from one medium to another and back. An initial poster was taken apart to…
Emergence
This online lettering was created for TEDxCentralSaintMartins to visualize the event’s theme “Emergence”. The letter E is used as a…
Type Times
Referring to the ideas of Postmodernism, the font Type Times spans letter shapes from different type classifications – from early…
Fish Soup
This interactive application was designed for the launch event of the book Fish Soup where the audience had the chance…
Stamp Machine
The interactive application Stamp Machine questions the use of common font parameters like weight or size. The new defined parameters…
Story Storage
This poster series reflects a 3-day workshop and temporary exhibition space named “Story Storage” at Central Saint Martins College. Analogue…
3D type
This coding experiment generated interactive, 3-dimensional letter forms that can be rotated. During testing it happened that some of the…
Identity
Each font of the type family “Identity” represents a category of Dirk’s personality, like influences, interests and locations. If used…
Timed Type
This time-responsive application changes its letter forms in real-time according to the date (T), hour (I), minute (M) and second…
AF Generation
Based on Greogor Mendel’s theory of genetics the type system AF Generation investigates how characteristics can be transferred from one…
Type & Film
Movie posters for a film theory class of Prof. Brigitte Peucker at Yale University. (Dirk Wachowiak, 2004-05)
Outline-generated Type
Letter forms respond in different ways to sound and movement: Ellipses, placed along the font outlines, are able to increase…
Lost Property
For this project a font is used as an archive to store objects found in the US between 2003 and…
