In a world where everything can be undone, letterpress asks you to commit. Every letter is a piece of metal, set by hand, inked and pressed into paper you can feel. Two small projects about taking the slow road, and about the people you make things for.
Cities are full of letters nobody really looks at: street signs, shop fronts, names cut into stone, a maker's plate on a lamppost. Once you start reading them, a stroll turns into a history lesson. A walk through Berlin-Mitte, looking at the city through its type.
A shop window gets a few seconds to make someone stop, and in Berlin there is no bigger stage for it than KaDeWe. Dressing one of its corner windows overnight, behind locked doors and under security, is a very different kind of night shift.
The right image reaches the people who need it most, and everyone around them. On set at the Amtsgericht Schöneberg for a nationwide campaign against domestic violence.
London is a city you learn by heart. It became a lesson in making, patience and people, even after the campus doors closed far too soon.
Three days, one flipchart and a room full of strangers. A camp on technology that serves people, and a team that turned product data into healthier choices at the supermarket shelf.
How do you keep up with the rush of AI? An evening talk that builds a bridge between Figma and the world of Dragon Ball Z, and a small shop designed with Claude straight into Figma.
Before anything is built, it is drawn. My sketchbooks are where ideas get their first shape, and where most of them are allowed to fail.
Every October, Eindhoven opens its studios, workshops and back courtyards to the world. A look back at the 25th Dutch Design Week: nights on a flax farm, rented bikes and a whole city turned into one big exhibition.
A September day in the departure halls of the former Tempelhof Airport, where Berlin marked twenty years as a UNESCO City of Design and asked what design is for.
A new design festival for Berlin, and a look at what is designed and made right here. Studios, brands and schools opened their doors across the city.
Every Kiez has a map that only exists in the heads of the people who live there: where the good coffee is, who repairs what, which little shop has the perfect gift. This one puts that knowledge on paper, drawn by hand for the places that make a neighbourhood worth staying in.
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