Simon Thiefes

Type, Design, crappy code
teaching type design @HAW Hamburg

2025-04-30

@Femke found in Hamburg. Designers unknown.

A risographed poster in dark blue and fluorescent yellow. 
A blue twisting ribbon is running from top left to bottom right in the background. Big letters are printed in the background in fluorescent yellow, such as »STRE«.

Text is overprinted in the foreground in dark blue. It reads: »Cute Zeiten // Schlechte // Zeiten«
At the bottom left: »JULIA HUBER

30.04, 18H
ERÖFFNUNG

OFFEN:
03.–04.05
14–18H«
 
And at the bottom right: »TESTSTRECKE
COMICS IN RBO
IM MIKROPOL IN
ROTHENBURGSORT
Billhorner Mühlenweg
Ecke Billhorner Röhrendamm«
Simon Thiefes boosted:
signalwerksignalwerk
2025-04-24

┌─┐ miniTable: a browser-only 3D sketchpad for creating straightforward tables using off-the-shelf components.

Inspiration credit:
Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen
kunsthallesanktgallen.ch

Test:
minitable.signalwerk.ch

Code:
github.com/signalwerk/miniTable

Close-up photograph of a table corner in a gallery space.Wide photograph of a minimalist table in a gallery space.
2025-03-24

@vasilis I can recommend Broad Band by Claire L. Evans.
The introduction of the book should be a good starter/input for your discussion. Unfortunately, I am not at home right now, otherwise I would have offered to scan the first pages.

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Libre Graphics Meetinglgm@post.lurk.org
2025-03-12

🎉 **Program public, Registrations open, Donate!** 🎉

We are thrilled to announce that the program for this year's Libre Graphics Meeting is now public!

This event promises to be a diverse and colorful showcase of our incredible community's talent, creativity, and dedication.

✨ Join us in celebrating Libre Graphics in all its breadth and depth. We can't wait to see you in Nuremberg and share in the excitement of this year's meeting! 🎨

## Key Actions

1. 📜 Read our Program libregraphicsmeeting.org/2025/,
2. 📝 If you plan to attend, please Register! libregraphicsmeeting.org/2025/,
3. 💖 And consider to Donate! libregraphicsmeeting.org/2025/.

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2025-02-28

🟣 automatic type design 3 🟢
The videos from two and a half days of symposium are available online 🔵

automatic-type-design.anrt-nan

Simon Thiefes boosted:
you will not get fired for using minion #klassegrafik
2025-02-10

Open Doors at HAW Hamburg: Starting Thursday.

And welcome to the fediverse to some of my students and our computer lab! pixelfed.de/p/colab/7945989390

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Haymann Thiefes Studiohaymannthiefesstudio@typo.social
2025-02-07

typo meter — unmeasured typography
Automatic Type Design 3, @ANRT Nancy, 17–21 february 2025

We're looking forward to »typo meter« our workshop on February 17+18. We’ll investigate the thresholds between measured and unlocalised space in typography. What could unmeasured space be? What is geometry without measures? Could anchor points survive off-the-grid? Are pixels and vectors the right means to describe the abundance of letterforms?
Come join us!
Full programme: automatic-type-design.anrt-nan

2024-12-26

Thanks for the offers! An adapter has been found! ☺️ #38c3

2024-12-26

@Beowulf amazing – thanks a lot!
Is it ok if I hit you up tomorrow, to meet?

2024-12-26

@silica exactly! That would be great.

2024-12-26

Does anyone going to #38c3 have a spare HDMI (Type A) to microHDMI (Type D) cable or adapter that I could borrow? Ideally tomorrow.
Any hints welcome ☺️

Simon Thiefes boosted:
Libre Graphics Meetinglgm@post.lurk.org
2024-12-19

The Libre Graphics Meeting 2025 is scheduled to take place in Nuremberg, Germany, from May 28 to May 31. The Call for Participation is published at libregraphicsmeeting.org/2025/
Please read, share, and consider submitting a proposal!

@lgm #lgm #lgm25 #libregraphics #libregraphicsmeeting

2024-12-08

This is something I am really grateful for but seldom take the time to appreciate enough: riding on the train, needing no passport, being able to meet all those wonderful people, their perspectives and world views – it’s really these connections that we need!

If you can, please go and share knowledge you have, talk to people, do it for free if you can.
Use those Erasmus or other exchange programmes and/or encourage your students to do the same! It’s such a privilege!

2024-12-08

Returning from a weekend full of impressions:
Conducting a type design workshop at LUCA School of Art in Gent, meeting and co-teaching with many other teachers from all over Europe. What an experience!

Also had the chance to see the results of the workshop »A Cane, Sticky notes, Another Body: Interface Space« run by @constant
It was a great afternoon with Bingos, (tactile) buttons, tactile maps, performances, analog photos, and more!

constantvzw.org/site/A-Cane-St

2024-11-28

@drawBot from adaptable width approaches to bustrophedon typesetting much was presented!

Cheers to the students for all your ideas!

2024-11-28

the students used @drawBot to draw letters and then imagine what would happen on the next level: text boxes, lines, words, …

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2024-11-28

Today we had the first exhibition of WYWIWYG – what you write is what you get – an introductory course of #Python for design students in type design making use of @drawBot

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2024-10-16

TYPOGRAPHY THEORY PRACTICE, Leeds Beckett University, Saturday 19 October 2024.

A one-day conference organised by Fraser Muggeridge exploring how typographic theories and propositions can manifest in practice, can be used to explain practice, and become practice. The full schedule is online at typographytheorypractice.xyz

We’ll talk about »opaque tools«, question what software monopolisation means in our design practice and for the visual world, where we got stuck, and ways to escape.

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