- * Indra Kupferschmid ist Typografin und Professorin an der Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar. Hier sammeln sich Fundstücke und Texte.
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The last 25:
- My German Reunification
- The Ideal Type Newsletter
- End of Saarbatical
- I hacked my Messages
- Discounts
- Taking Over Type Foundries
- Interview-Fundstück von Mai 2009
- Typographers are scholars
- Alastair Johnston rants about Helvetica
- The Hamilton Woodtype Museum is the coolest place in type world!
- Notes from Lyon
- Type used in Germany’s best designed books of 2012
- On Responsive Typography
- Multi-axes type families
- Some notes on the history of Akzidenz-Grotesk
- Type classifications are useful, but the common ones are not
- sans serif
- Fonts and intellectual property
- Zur Erinnerung: Der erste Spiekermann’sche Lehrsatz
- Firemen or Art Directors
- Font Shopping 2011
- Underused Gems Revisited
- ATypI Konferenz Leipzig 2000
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Classifications
arecan be useful - Life wasn’t easy in phototype days
- Thank you
- On Webdesign and Education
- New Ideas for Book Typography
- Schrift
- De Luc-Truc by Lucas de Groot
- Theoretisch ist Kunst total sinnlos
- Where do you want to drive?
- New column: Ask Indra
- »Sometimes less really is less«
- Kurt Weidemann, adé.
- Wo bleibt eigentlich Font-Shopping Teil 3?
- Font-Shopping Continues
about
Indra Kupferschmid is a German typographer and teacher based in Bonn and Saarbrücken. After studying visual communication at the Bauhaus-University Weimar and with Fred Smeijers in the Netherlands, she founded her own studio mainly designing and editing books for publishing houses and cultural institutions; research projects on architecture and housing; typeface development for print, packaging and consumer-product interfaces and devices.
Since 1997 she has been teaching typography and type design at various design schools, and since 2006, she has been a professor at HBKsaar, Academy of Fine Arts Saarbrücken, at the German–French border.
Her typographic reference book, Buchstaben kommen selten allein, published by Niggli, was awarded one of the best designed books in Germany. She is co-author of Helvetica forever, by Lars Müller Publishers, writes articles, takes part in juries, gives lectures regularly and presents other great minds at the annual TypoBerlin conference.
More on flickr and twitter. My deleted LinkedIn profile. For requests and other inquiries: indra at kupferschrift de.
The typefaces on this website are Serge for headlines and Ibis RE for body copy, both designed by Cyrus Highsmith, published by Font Bureau and served by Webtype.