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Lectures / Workshops

2018 Berliner Typostammtisch, Lecture and Round Table Discussion about teaching type design
2017 Faculty Day Nr.2, HGB Leipzig, Round Table Discussion
2017 Type Talk at ZHdK, MAS Type Design, lecture about the development of Affiche
2016 Faculty Day Nr.1, HGB Leipzig, Round Table Discussion
2014 Fascilitator at Leipziger Typotage, Museum für Druckkunst Leipzig, May 2014
2013 Lecture at 25. Tage der Typografie, Bern, Switzerland, November 2013
2013 Talks on Type at Gutenberg Museum in Mainz, June 2013
2013 Lecture at TYPO Day/Business Typography Talks in Stuttgart, February 2013
2012 Lecture at TYPO Day/Business Typography Talks in Berlin, October 2012
2012 Lecture at TYPO Day/Business Typography Talks in Cologne, September 2012
2012 Lecture at TYPO Day/Business Typography Talks in Frankfurt, June 2012
2012 Lecture at the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia/USA, March 2012
2012 Lecture at the Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles/USA, March 2012
2011 Leipziger Typotage, Lecture together with Jenny Baese, May 2011
2010 Type Workshop at ISDI in Havanna/Cuba
2010 Passion: TypoBerlin 2010: The Joy of Letters
2008 TypograVieh lebt 5: Dingbats Black to Light, lecture in Weimar
2008 Typografiska Fredag, lecture at the Royal Library Stockholm
2007 Jour Fixe: lecture at Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle
2007 Interview lecture at Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle
2006 Lecture in Bergen, Norway; invited by Grafill Bergen
2005 2 weeks Type Design workshop at the Kunsthøgskolen i Bergen, Norway
2004 2 weeks Type Design workshop at the Kunsthøgskolen i Bergen, Norway
2004 Lecture at Graphic Europe in Berlin, Parallel Session »Being in Berlin«
2004 Lecture at the FHTW Berlin, Fachbereich Gestaltung
2004 Typography workshop at the FHTW Berlin, Fachbereich Gestaltung
2003 2 weeks Type Design workshop at the Kunsthøgskolen i Bergen, Norway
2003 Interview lecture at the HAWK, Fachhochschule Hildesheim
2001 Lecture at the Fachhochschule Rheinland Pfalz, Mainz
 

Exhibitions

2016 Tanzjahr 2016, 16 Posters by international designers, poster exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanien and Weltformat Festival
2015 BURG Professors of Art and Design …, Volkspark Halle, exhibiting Abecedarium: 24 alphabetic and typographic artworks
2013 Call for Type. New Typefaces. Gutenberg Museum, Mainz
2011 Deep Surface: Contemporary Ornament and Pattern. CamRaleigh Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh, North Carolina/USA
2011 CAPITAL: Berliner Buchstaben. Galerie Mota Italic, Berlin
2010 Typocube at Berlin Square, Expo 2010 in Shanghai
2008 Schrift in Form. Klingspor Museum, Offenbach/Main
2008 Pimp the Type, exhibition organized by the Spanish typographic collective Catalana de Tipos, taking place in Valencia and Barcelona
2007 TDC53, exhibition of winning entries for TDC53 at the One Club New York, Tuesday 17 July 2007 – Friday 17 August 2007
2007 My favourite game: parallel event of the 2007 Ten Images for Ithaca competition, Ithaca Public Art Gallery, Greece, July 14 – July 29
2007 18th International Poster and Graphic Arts Festival of Chaumont. May 12 – June 24, Entrepôt des Subsistances, Chaumont
2007 Location:Georgien: photography exhibition on Georgia with works by Andreas Dresen, Konstantin Faigle, Harun Farocki, Christoph Hübner, Robert Kröner, Benedict Neuenfels, Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk, Achim Riechers, Thomas Riedelsheimer, Stefan Tolz, Andrea Tinnes, Nikolaus von Twickel and Timo Vogt
2006 Spoken with Eyes: Glimpses of post dot graphic design. Presented by the Sacramento Art Directors and Artists Club. May 21 – June 30, 2006 at the UC Davis Design Museum, featuring several type posters
2005 Alter Ego: Self-Initiated Work by CalArts Design Alumni, Students and Faculty; CalArts, Valencia/CA
2005 Earthquakes and Aftershocks, affiches du California Institute of the Arts, 1986-2004, Ecole des beaux-arts de Rennes
2001 Acceptance, Rebellion, Overdrive, CalArts Type Design 1988 – 2001, CalArts, Valencia/CA
2001 Red Dot Award, Communication Design 2001/2002, Zeche Zollverein, Essen
2000 Alphabets, Codes und andere Zeichen, Gutenberg Pavillon, Mainz
1999 TwentySecond Annual100 Show, Chicago
 

Awards

2007 Festival d'affiches de Chaumont
2007 TDC53, Certificate of Typographic Excellence
2001 Red Dot Award, Communication Design 2001/2002, Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen]
[awarded work: Calendar DYWIDAG 2001, Design Studio: BFGM/Lahn; Creative Director: Hardy Lahn; Graphic Design: Andrea Tinnes]
1999 Selected, 22 Annual 100Show, American Center for Design, Chicago
[awarded work: Poster announcing a lecture by the artist Thomas Lawson at CalArts]
1999 Selected, Output 02: awarded works of Graphic Design students, Rat fuer Formgebung (German Design Council), Frankfurt/Main
[awarded work: Family Affair: a family album of font marriages; final Thesis project at CalArts]